Recent content by Almech

My guess is she's one of the shadow agents mentioned after the coup attempt during MC's talk with her father/the emperor. Dorm Mom is far too competent, progressive for the setting's society, and has too much access to valuable material assets and apparent state secrets. The obsidian shadows...

Rival factions taking heirs and other adolescent family members as political hostages was quite common in real world history, with them suffering treatment running every range from very well to absolute abuse. It was mostly used after one Lord lost badly to another as the dual insurance of...