#fruitisthenewvegitable

[minecraftbookshelf]

In the Marriage of State au, did Scott and Xornoth have any adults in their early lives apart from their parents? A caretaker, teacher, servant, guard, etc kind of adult that had an impact on their lives? Especially a positive one?

There were staff members, but those were almost never actual relationships, due to class differences and such. There are a few people who were kind to them, and most of them are either retired now with handsome pensions, or still work for the royal family in trusted positions. But very, very few and the power imbalance was too prominent for it to be a secure relationship.

They had regular adult figures in their lives. Their parents were there, but distant at best and actively abusive at worst. And of course their various educators and attendants were also present consistently, though they were unable to be people to each other, for lack of a better way to say it.

The lives of the Rivendell princes have been very lonely ones, which is a massive contributor to their unhealthy levels of codependence.

[murderandcoffee]

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and

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enjoy your new allegiance!

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[minecraftbookshelf]

I keep thinking about MoS and I have two main questions if you have an answer for either of them :]

1. What would the main traveling methods be between empires? Mainly between Rivendell and the Codpire? And how long would it take either Scott or Jimmy to get from their own respective empire to the others or vice versa??

And

2. Is Third Life in any way canon? Like how in a lot of fics Third Life happened and then Scott and Jim (and everyone else in 3rd Life) were reincarnated into Empires?

I just keep having thoughts about this au ‘cause you’ve made such an interesting story <3

Empire Travel!

I do have a previous post on the topic which i'll yeet up HERE just so that i don't repeat myself too much.

I also talked about elytra (more focused on design but i think its still relevant) HERE jhgfgf

Specifically Rivendell and the Swamp is going to depend on who is doing the traveling. It is several hours flight and about as many days by horse (for an individual, traveling at optimum speed) as it is hours by air. There is also a river to travel by from the coast up the base of the mountains near the border with The Overgrown, there is some boat traffic on there and it is also swimmable, though going inland is against the current.

Jimmy mostly flies to Rivendell and swims home, for example.

There is also less travel than you would think, at least on an individual level.

Just using Flower Husbands as an example:

Jimmy is going to go up to Rivendell a handful of times during the wedding negotiations and preparations, but only a few. Mostly he will be in the Swamp and Scott will be in Rivendell, both of them preparing for their own sides of the wedding. During the actual wedding (a process that will cover over a week) there will be a whole procession from Rivendell all the way to the Swamp. The end of that, and the final day of the wedding itself (which will actually take place in the swamp) will be Scott's first time there.

Once they are married, there won't be a lot of travel for a bit, most of the interactions between kingdoms will be through communications with ambassadors. Eventually, Xornoth and Scott will fly back and forth for visits on a personal level, and there will be state visits as well, travel methods of which will vary.

Nether portal locations are fiercely guarded secrets, revealed only to the closest allies. Rivendell's portal is only known to Pearl and Katherine, maybe Gem. Not even most of the WRA knows where it is.

And only Katherine and the Ocean Alliance members know where the Swamp Portal is. (Pix helped relocate it after they became free of Mythland.)

Portals are a Whole Thing.