Hi, hello đ 8, 12 and 21 for the OC family asks please and thank you :)
Hi there!! Thank you so much, I love talking about the Vilendrysi đŤś
8. Are there any family heirlooms? Traditions?
Vilendrysi heirlooms is a thing I should think about. However, in a way, their ancestral home, Mirdinian, is what they consider their most prized heirloom. The Vilendrysi are tied to their home across generations and across family branches. M'rone grew up not just with her immediate family, but also around her aunts and uncles and cousins, all who also work in the family business. It is a symbol of their craft--as M'rone complained about, part of it is open to the public as an exposition room. And as they gain their sense of self and pride from their craft, Mirdinian is super important for them. (Hence the twins talking about it to Jaehaera to such an extent that the princess finally wanted to have them paint it for her.)
M'rone also has pendant shaped like a swan, that her mother gave to her on her deathbed. It is not really an old heirloom, I believe Unemone received it from her mother-in-law when she married into the Vilendrysi family. But to M'rone it is something that ties her to her mother and family (the swan being the Vilendrysi emblem).
Their family traditions are mostly tied to the religious rites of the Moonsingers. Religion is important to them. So, for example, the upcoming the first full moon of summer is something they will not let pass by unnoticed. They always celebrate such holidays together as a family, and I think these celebrations are more important to them than for example birthdays or wedding anniversaries.
12. Speaking of dinners, is there a particular way they sit around the table?
Oh definitely. Tumyro, as the patriarch, usually sits at the head of the table, M'rone on his right, Drenace on his left. Narvo always sits next to his wife, just as Mirtane would have sat next to M'rone when he was still there (my poor dead husband haunting the narrative đ). I do think the twins, Lanna and Trystane, sometimes mess up this arrangement, if they are having a tantrum about wanting to sit there or there for an evening, but usually they would sit next to their father (Narvo) or M'rone, or maybe between their parents. On the days Tumyro is not around, M'rone sits at the head of the table, with the twins on her right side, her sister and brother-in-law on her right.
21. What are some memorable family moments that go down in infamy?
Narvo's terrible proposal to Drenace. Let's just say he had everything planned out; romantic proposal on a galley. But then a bird shat on him and a storm began and Drenace got seasick. And she was already pregnant, so yeah, she got really angry about this nonsense; until she realized that he was just trying to propose.
Also the one time M'rone, aged five or six, painted over a recently finished commission for a Braavosi noble. Her mother was livid, but her father was impressed by her artistic vision and was all proud. They kept the painting, it hangs on a wall in Tumyro's bedroom.
