Hi Quill! For the ask game: the Laine kid's dad, Aimon, used to be a sailor before he met their mother and decided to stay in the city of Maaren. It's a port city at the delta of a river and serves as the mainland point for an entire tropical archipelago with a lot of trade. He hopes one day to take the kids travelling. Can I have a fact about Captain Io pretty please? I hope you feel better soon!
[Send me a fact about an OC, and I’ll reply with one about mine!]
Ahhhh, sailors!!! Love me some sailing facts, and such neat worldbuilding! I also love to travel, and I hope he gets the chance to take his kids to see some neat places~
Captain Io! Okay okay let’s see here...
When Io was a child, she would go through phases of obsessively learning everything she could about a random topic. Stars and constellations and night sky navigation was a huge one, and so was the weather, and so was the wood trade, and so was the creation and forging of swords including metals and minerals and stuff. She still does it now, but a lot less obviously. Because of this, even though it doesn’t come up very often, she now has a vast arsenal of just... incredibly random facts.
One time she was being snubbed by the host of a fancy party she was required to attend, and she just went full out explaining how the mahogany pillars of his new estate were actually illegal because the King had only recently lifted the ban on the wood’s availability to anything aside from ship-building, after this estate had been built, and how it would be such a shame if someone were to hear about his accidental procurement of it.
Aka Io is very insanely good at research, and very insanely good at blackmail.
Wow that got long. Also, thank you!!!