I think I mentioned that thanks to reader comments I’ve now found a way to change one of the A- names (Alured the Black) to something else for a logical reason in K-II.\u00a0\u00a0 Alured considers his current name too plebian and associated too closely with his criminal past, so he wants a fancier name.\u00a0 He has some genealogical records that he thinks relate to his real parentage, so he picks a non-A (not his reason but mine) name from among them.<\/p>\n
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But while working today on another chapter I realized I had not named the new members of King Mikeli’s new Council (not his regency council, which after all lost some members to death and treason.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So, I needed a new baron and a new count.\u00a0 a new Marshal-Judicar (actually already had that one) and also needed the new Master Trader and Master Crafter, each of whom represents the various trading and craft guilds.<\/p>\n
Baron Tamis Brenvor:\u00a0 It’s his first time on the Council and he’s a bit stiff–mostly from nervousness and not wanting to look ridiculous.\u00a0\u00a0 He was surprised to be chosen, though he was always diligent in his duties to the Crown, and by all reports an excellent lord of his small domain, which has prospered under him more than under his uncle (from whom he inherited it) or his grandfather.\u00a0\u00a0 He is not at all handsome (and knows it)\u00a0 with dishwater-blond hair and pale eyes; a fair swordsman and a good rider.\u00a0 The improvement in his domain is due largely to his paying close attention to what grows there and what doesn’t,\u00a0 rather than insisting on crops better suited to a different soil and climate.\u00a0 He did not expect to inherit, and had been doing experiments on his own holding.\u00a0 Very much hands-on, very practical, feels out of place at court, but wasn’t going to refuse the post.\u00a0 He will be happy with his main assignment, assessing agricultural potential and gathering information for a central database (though it’s not called that, of course.)\u00a0 He has a plain wife, who really dislikes court where she feels even more out of place than he does (so she will head home very soon) and three plain daughters, all intelligent and capable enough to attract suitors even though they aren’t beauties.\u00a0\u00a0 One is engaged, in fact.\u00a0\u00a0 The middle one leveled a fool who thought a plain girl should be grateful for anything, including assault.\u00a0 The youngest spends nearly all her time in the garden, trying to develop new plant strains.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tamis dotes on her and thinks she’d made a fine baroness.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some of this may be plot-significant but not yet.<\/p>\n
Count Kevre Tivarrn:\u00a0 another newbie, replacing Count\u00a0 Konhalt, who is under attainder.\u00a0 Tivarrn\u00a0 is a sleek, elegant courtier who had in fact spent much time at court.\u00a0\u00a0 His genius is accounting–he does\u00a0 not look anything like the common notion of an accoutant, in his elegant clothes, but he has an instinct for crooked numbers and can ferret out who’s stealing what where faster than anyone else.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The palace’s own staff recommended him years ago, when he was in his twenties and he offhandedly pointed out an error in the accounting of fodder while visiting court with his father.\u00a0\u00a0 Now in his early forties, he’s not anyone’s favorite person (is he checking up on me<\/em>?\u00a0 Or the person next to me?)\u00a0 but he’s valuable.\u00a0\u00a0 King Mikeli doesn’t much like him either, but knows he’ll keep the books straight.\u00a0\u00a0 Kevre married above himself (he was only a “lord” when he married, third son of a baron) and his wife, though not conventionally beautiful, has a strong sense of style and suits him well.\u00a0 They have one child, a boy, who did not inherit their brains but is a good-looking lad–unfortunately, easily bribed by those who want Kevre’s favor.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This may or may not be plot-significant.<\/p>\n Oktar, the new Marshal-Judicar,\u00a0 worked under the previous Marshal-Judicar for three years, so he knows the job well.\u00a0\u00a0 He came up through the ranks of the Fellowship of Gird,\u00a0 being a yeoman in a Finthan grange (slightly more respected than the Tsaian granges), then yeoman-marshal, and then recommended to the Marshalate school in Fin Panir, where he impressed his teachers with his quick grasp of the Code.\u00a0 After an extra year or two studying the Code in all its complexity, he chose the judiciary for his specialization–but nonetheless was sent to a grange in Tsaia to act as a grange-Marshal, to round his education.\u00a0\u00a0 After three or four years there,\u00a0 he was called to Verella and soon impressed his senior as the best legal mind he’d seen in years…so when Donag was murdered,\u00a0 Oktar was the obvious choice to succeed him.\u00a0\u00a0 Oktar and Donag did not completely agree (legal scholars rarely do agree 100%…)\u00a0 but the changes will be subtle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think I mentioned that thanks to reader comments I’ve now found a way to change one of the A- names (Alured the Black) to something else for a logical reason in K-II.\u00a0\u00a0 Alured considers his current name too plebian and associated too closely with his criminal past, so he wants a fancier name.\u00a0 He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,45],"tags":[22,106,20],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contents","category-revisions","tag-characters","tag-contents","tag-progress-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}