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Post by Seek on Oct 19, 2020 12:15:05 GMT 10
Title: Queen Rating: G Word Count: 17 words Summary (and any Warnings): Thayet should have been Queen. Notes: Anyone wants a hardcore politics Queen AU with: Queen Sarai-Chancellor Dove, Queen Thayet wingwoman Buri, Queen Alanna (thanks Alix for that Iron King AU), and somehow an Empress in Carthak, and Queen in Scanra?
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Buri weeps the day a half-K'miri Queen ascends the Saren throne, because it should have been Thayet.
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Post by Tamari on Oct 19, 2020 12:38:13 GMT 10
A) I want it all. And B) This is both heartbreaking and plausible. I can see Buri especially feeling this way, after what she and Thayet went through together in Sarain and the sacrifice her family made for Kalasin.
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Post by mistrali on Oct 19, 2020 13:15:23 GMT 10
Oh, man, yes, of course Buri (and Thayet) would still be grieving for Sarain and all that could have been. This makes me even more interested in a Saren Queen!Thayet AU (although how long she would’ve remained queen is debatable.
Yesss to all of those.
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Post by devilinthedetails on Oct 19, 2020 22:48:01 GMT 10
There's so much contradictory emotion that I feel about this. I so want a half K'miri queen of Sarain, but I also share Buri's feeling that it should've been Thayet.
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Post by Seek on Oct 21, 2020 13:18:38 GMT 10
Thanks guys! mistrali - I agree about this, actually. With so much old ethnic hatreds in Sarain, I strongly doubt any ruler - apart from one backed by the Dominion Jewel - could keep the throne for long, unless they went zhir Anduo warlord. And devil, I'd definitely love to see a half K'miri queen of Sarain!
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Post by mistrali on Oct 21, 2020 18:49:21 GMT 10
SeekAnd now I want an AU where a Saren heroine gets the Jewel from Chitral and the Jewel brings peace to Sarain. Would be interesting to see how the Tortallans would have managed without the Jewel to stabilise everything. With a lot of bloodshed and a huge civil war, probably. I doubt the Bazhir connection to the land would be up to snuff. I mean, maybe Tortall has some ridiculously powerful Jewel equivalent, but I.... seriously doubt it. If anywhere would have elementals just hanging around, it’s probably a major empire like Carthak. Or maybe there’s one in the Isles’ mountains? Or Yaman? Or Tyran swampland?.
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Post by Seek on Oct 22, 2020 2:15:05 GMT 10
I really want this AU too! Sarain managing to pull through would be interesting, and I actually like the idea it's a near miss in the sense Buri could have done it, with the actual divergence happening when someone else goes to meet Chitral instead of Alanna.
Playing with the idea most countries have some kind of Item of Power would be fun though! Tortall managed to have a minor god inhabit a room, while the Yamani Islands have the gods' swords. And I really liked Alix's story about the Emperors of Carthak inheriting divinity through the sister-son lineage.
But yes, I suspect it'd be a lot of bloodshed, because Jon needed to use the Jewel to hold the land together. Without the Jewel, who knows?
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Post by Hopeless on Oct 26, 2020 0:00:33 GMT 10
Thayet gets the jewel in song of the seer by ankhiale, it’s great!! That doesn’t happen till the second part of the fic though, and it’s very long. I really enjoyed it though, try it!
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