>>5842042You had never met the Queen, obviously. You’d never met ANY royalty! There were nobles in the Tower, bratty and entitled children during your adolescence—a disproportionate amount, in fact. A fair few humans had the gift of magic, but it was the wealthy and well-connected who most often were given the chance to truly study the arcane, and to make their propensity into a profession, and to develop an idle aptitude into a skill and a power which made them something more than mundane. But royalty… They were something else entirely.
For five hundred years, Hawksong had been ruled by an unbroken line of Paladin Kings. At the tail-end of the ancient War of Dragons and Elves, the first Paladin King and his Knights of the Holy Purpose had defeated the Great Green Dragon of the Northwest—he whose body was housed piecemeal in the depths of the Tower even now. This event had spelled the end of the Age of Dragons… AND the prominence of the Elven race as well, for in that great and glorious triumph, Man had surpassed Elf, and never again would the balance of powers tip the other way. Hawksong had grown, and mankind’s population had ballooned, even as the sylvan race declined and many others—like the Neme-Ashurati—had vanished in still-deeper obscurity. By the might of metal, and holy favour of the Gods of ALwful Good, and by their own force of will, the Royal Family of Hawksong had uplifted a race that was short-lived, magically-mediocre, weak of body and simple of spirit and made them the undisputed MASTERS of the entire Earth. THIS was the legacy to which Queen Ekaterine of Hawksong was heir.
Intimidating enough on its own, before you also considered that she was apparently wedded to a ‘Dragonborn’ reptilian infiltrator, transformed into some sort of ‘Dark Queen’.
How did you plan to go about this?
>Approach the Crown forthright, as a representative of the Tower seeking an official audience>Use <Free Movement> to sneak past the royal defences and to spy upon this enigmatic sovereign>Send a vaguely-threatening anonymous letter, revealing all that you know and demanding concessions for your silence>Ask Archmage Henzler for an in—surely SHE knows how to make herself heard? Though that would mean sharing what you’d learned from the True Fey…>Write-in 