Dame Louise of Glass
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Introduction to the story | Lady Olénie | The City of the Hundred Fiefs | Novel upcoming
Introduction to the story | Lady Olénie | The City of the Hundred Fiefs | Novel upcoming
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Children
Report for the attention Lord Adélème—Your new neighbours
My Lord, following on my report on your new neighbours, the Fief of Glass and their lady, here is one on the head of their armed forces, Dame Louise.
Her life
Dame Louise was orphaned when she was young and became a basement urchin. As she proved to have a knack for surviving encounters with magic manifestations, the previous lord took her as one of his child spies. She was thus sent through the cave system under the city to visit over fiefs and gather information, a task that by all account she accomplished with brio for a number of years. It is presumably during this time that she first encountered Lady Olénie and became close to her.
When Lady Olénie made her bid to seize the fief. Louise was the first to support her, which has gained her the full trust of the lady to this day. This got her the position of head of all armed forces in the fief, of the lady's bodyguard, and, rumours are, of her best friend. This has made her the second most powerful person in the fief, and perhaps even the most influential one, as contrary to the lady, people admire her.
The consequences
Her role in the politics of the fief has given her a deep influence in all aspects of its life; common opinion in the fief is that she is consulted about everything and is even the one actually making all decisions related to safety. She seems to have a conservative, traditionalist mindset, although she often takes example on other fiefs thanks to her past. The lady would be the one with all the strange new ideas, in particular around education.
Her past has proven that she is a very talented and skilled fighter to even be able to survive magic manifestations. She is also highly intelligent and able to blend in with others or make herself pleasant enough to gather information and get what she wants out of people. This has given her a superiority complex and manipulative tendencies.
A scandal?
The artist
Dame Louise is known to have made the lady's official portrait and that of a few other top government officials. She is a skilled artist and since she would personally know a lot of politicians and people from other fiefs, there are rumours that she would be the one to have made a series of offending caricatures that are circulating in this corner of the city.
Dame Louise is known to have made the lady's official portrait and that of a few other top government officials. She is a skilled artist and since she would personally know a lot of politicians and people from other fiefs, there are rumours that she would be the one to have made a series of offending caricatures that are circulating in this corner of the city.
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Recommendations
I would advise your Lordship to attempt to recruit Dame Louise at our side, as she would make a useful addition to our ranks. However, her loyalties to the lady are likely to get in the way if the lady herself does not prove cooperative enough. In that case, Dame Louise will be the most important obstacle we will face in the fief and it will be a priority to get rid of her.Related articles
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This was a very fun read! Do you think you'll post some example comic strips one day?
Thanks! That was the initial idea but I ran out of time and since I didn't have any specific idea for them I decided not to bother. I'll see if I get an idea now that I have more time, maybe from the recent events of the world...