Sangis wasn't above a lot of things that most people would get squeamish just talking about, never mind writing about. But he did draw the line sometimes, and that was usually around the area of where children lay.
He was under the impression that most people, at some points in their lives, had been bastards to one person or another. So when he wrote filth, dredged up their pasts or outright lied, he rarely felt bad.
Children however, rarely seemed to be capable of such things. So, when Anya Val'dearas' son was born there was a fine, grey line that he lingered around for a while.
It was a story, most certainly, and for various reasons. Anya Val'dearas was the heiress of the family, regardless of what her uncle thought.
Which meant that her son would one day be seen to inherit the whole lot, a great big pay off for such a little man. Added to the fact that Anya was one of the more darling public faces of the house only meant that people would be very interested to see her interacting with her son and husband in their wedded bliss.
So, write an article he did. With a slightly weary sigh he glanced over the paper, if you could call The Whispered Word a newspaper and smirked to himself. He had of course managed to wedge in a mention of Anya's cousin, Kathrynne, as he usually did.
To him, she represented the only good thing to come out of the Val'dearas house in a good two hundred years. Even after she married and became a mother he still found himself fascinated with the purity she seemed to excude.
It is with a light heart that I write to you with the news of some joy, finally for the Val'dearas house, as the heiress Anya has given birth to her first son. I am sure you will agree that it is quite about time, and that with his arrival we will be sure to hear of his naming soon.
Have the Val'dearas managed to put their dark and violent past behind them? Or will the feuding between brothers continue on into the next generation? I am sure that am I not the only one who hopes not.
As we have seen with the fair Lady Kathrynne, that some can strive through their loss to become a beacon of Sin'dorei beauty for all of us to admire, and to strive for. Let us hope that Lady Anya will not be cowed by her uncle and no doubt his demands that he has placed on her to keep her son from contesting his inheritance.
For is it not the right of the heiress to place her son at the head of the house? Would we all not be terribly disappointed in Xelcius for carrying on the grudge he so bitterly holds against his brother?
I am sure we all know the answer to that, dear friends."
The article was a smaller piece amongst other news of more prominent houses, and viscous gossip about the more outlined royalists who still lingered, skulking within the city, but he was sure that his piece would attract some attention.
If things were to go the way he planned, he was certain there would be a great deal of profit to be had.