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Good question! I will list each gaian High Royal and their specialties.

Oberon - Illusions and Telepathy. He uses illusions to do sneaky illegal shit and telepathy to manipulate people.

Sanctoria - Not magical.

Wynnala - Telepathy. She has trouble speaking out loud, so she prefers to use telepathy to get her words out better.

Oberon Jr. - Illusions. He's not very good at them yet, but he tries to use illusions to change his appearance. It annoys Oberon when he gives himself wacky hair colors.

Tristabella - Illusions. She's still a young child and can't do much with this yet, but she's in school learning the basics.

Naetorus - Not magical.

Chua: Alchemy and curses. Chua can brew up some crazy potions, but they're most famous for their curse which turns people to stone.

Gultopp: Not magical. He didn't want to risk having a weakness to iron when his greatest enemy, Evangeline, is famous for using iron weapons.

Juvella: Curative and Floemancy. She decided to learn healing spells after working as a nurse, then figured if she was going to be weak to iron, she may as well learn offensive spells to protect herself, so she chose floemancy (frost magic).

Blomi: Not magical. Her dad wouldn't let her be magical, fearing iron weakness.

Hestal: Not magical, same reason as Blomi.

Sygbarne: Not magical. Her parents assume she's incapable of learning it, and even if she could, they wouldn't trust her to use it responsibly.

Maris: Hydromancy. Growing up on the coast, she's spent a lot of time on boats, and learned hydromancy for her own benefit.

Kast: Not magical, but he is interested in becoming magical and learning galemancy one day. He thinks storms are exciting.

Hethor and her family: Not magical, as Hethor believes magic is a "crutch of the fae". However, Mutara is a skilled alchemist, cleric, and floramancer who has managed to teach Thetos some floramancy as well.

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That's true, Hethor's kids seem a lot less screwed up than most of the other royals! Of course we haven't been introduced to all of them, and maybe she has some other kids who are more menacing, but the ones we know of so far seem benign.

They are still pretty young though, and they may become different people as they age. Hethor, Denu, and Boga are all rotten sacks of crap, but I doubt they started that way. It seems their behavior got worse as their power and authority grew.

The same may happen to their kids when they inherit thrones. Keatto is already getting shittier with the more wives, money, and influence he collects. The throne might just finish the job and fully corrupt him.

But the most concerning one is Kobi, in my opinion. She seems really determined to reunify Etios and Matuzu, and she might pull increasingly desperate and violent moves to do so. I have a feeling she's going to become a conflict-cyclone as she gets older. Reunification is not necessarily a good thing that everyone wants; in fact, most people don't want that. Kobi is a rebel who is aggressively swimming against the tide here.

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I feel like Emli and Trista would get along really well. They're both spoiled, melodramatic little shits. Emli is a lot smarter though. Marine gets bossed around by Trista and Trista gets bossed around by Emli. Together they are a whirlwind of deliquency.

Kast, OJ, and Cyana form a moody teenager clique and talk about how awful their parents are.

Azura respects Kobi a lot. She isn't sure if she agrees with her cause, but she respects her passion and bravery nonetheless. They would have a lot to talk about. Jaq and Winnue could get on in this group too. They're the rebel clique.

Cerulea's girls are freaking out over all the minotaur tiddies just floppin' around in the open. Cyana pretends to be offended, but is secretly peeping the hell out of Naduna. 👀

Emli bullies all the younger kids relentlessly (Cobalt, Nate, and Azura's triplets). Kast eventually gets tired of her crap, so he spills punch on her pants and accuses her of peeing herself. All the other kids laugh at her and she runs away in tears.

Thetos wouldn't be at the gala, but if he was, I feel like he and Kast would hang out. They do canonically go to the same boarding school in Sodergen, so I intend for them to be friends in a future story. Kast is a moody little punk and Thetos is a happy cinnamon roll, so they have a fun dynamic together.

Hestal and Keatto are comparing muscles, arm-wrestling, and trying to out-macho eachother like idiots. Their wives are all equally embarrassed and bonding over how dumb their husbands are.

Blomi and Naduna get drunk together and exchange beauty tips. Marghan asks to have a threesome with them, gets iced out by Blomi and headbutted by Naduna. He wanders off with severe head trauma, but no one notices because he's already a dumbass.

That's all I can think of at the moment!

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Pictured: Chieftess Hethor Etios enjoying a swim at a Matuzan resort

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Not much is known about Abuka or his son, as their story has already passed before we get to meet them.

But if I were to guess, I'd say Abuka Jr. was similar to the rest of Hethor's family: Bold, nationalistic, and family-oriented. He accepted Boga's offer to join the military, so he must have been willing to die defending his kingdom. (Granted, Boga sold the position as more of a symbolic one and told him he wouldn't see much actual fighting. This turned out to be a lie...)

Abuka Jr. trusted his clan-father and uncle, and they both betrayed him. He probably had a trusting and naive nature.

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Denu embraces old-fashioned gender roles quite a bit, so I imagine he's more restrictive towards Naduna. Keatto is allowed to do whatever the hell he wants, but Naduna would be shamed for behaving the way he does, simply because Etiosi women are expected to act differently.

She's still Denu's child, however, and he loves her dearly in his own way. He wants her to be a proper Etiosi lady, to stay away from those degenerate satyrs, and have a good life (or what he deems "a good life") by settling down with a minotaur husband and having a million kids. He probably throws suitors at her all the time, but gets frustrated because she always rejects them.

As for Naduna's relationship with Kobi, it's rather strained. Kobi's relationship with the entire family is strained due to her political beliefs. Naduna might be a little more sympathetic to Kobi, because she knows what it's like to love an "outsider", but she isn't bold enough to express that out loud.

They're cordial enough to eachother, but I imagine Naduna tries not to discuss politics with her, and her parents probably discourage her from talking to Kobi at all.

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Hethor currently has 10 children. We know about 4 of them (Keatto, Naduna, Kobi, and Thetos) but for now the other 6 are not relevant to the story, so I haven't developed any details yet.

Maybe they will come into play in the future! There are a lot of different possibilities for them.

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I mean, there are much worse ways to die...

Balls-deep in the High Chieftess ain't a bad way to go if you ask me!

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