An Archduchess' Tour
Posted by Apostate on 05/25/21
Archduchess Jaenelle Velenosa, the Grand Duchess of the Lyceum, has taken pains to tour the Lyceum, visit the many city-states of her realm, and spend time with the commoners and peers alike. While Jaenelle may have been born of House Thrax, truthfully much of the Lyceum seems to have politely forgotten that, and her rule over the Lyceum has become increasingly stable, building upon what Esera and Elenya created following the tumult of the King's Rest era.
While Jaenelle firms up her support in the Lyceum, it becomes increasingly clear how much of the southern peers feel about the rise of neo-nobles and prodigals. The Lycene often are known as the iconoclasts and boundary pushers, enjoying scandalizing the rest of the Compact. Often, anyone enraging the rest of the peers, particularly the most rigid Oathlanders, enjoys at least some favorable mention in the Lyceum- but this is only true to a point. They very much enjoy see someone pushing boundaries -outside- of the Lyceum, but would not be quick to welcome prodigals and neo-nobles in their own city-states, or see the privileges enjoyed by the nobility weakened in any meaningful way. So they might applaud or praise people in public from afar, but also quietly undermine attempts to raise more neo-nobles and accept more prodigals. Into the Lyceum, at least.
While Jaenelle firms up her support in the Lyceum, it becomes increasingly clear how much of the southern peers feel about the rise of neo-nobles and prodigals. The Lycene often are known as the iconoclasts and boundary pushers, enjoying scandalizing the rest of the Compact. Often, anyone enraging the rest of the peers, particularly the most rigid Oathlanders, enjoys at least some favorable mention in the Lyceum- but this is only true to a point. They very much enjoy see someone pushing boundaries -outside- of the Lyceum, but would not be quick to welcome prodigals and neo-nobles in their own city-states, or see the privileges enjoyed by the nobility weakened in any meaningful way. So they might applaud or praise people in public from afar, but also quietly undermine attempts to raise more neo-nobles and accept more prodigals. Into the Lyceum, at least.