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Fun fact about this little story: it was going to serve as the prelude to a longer story, in which after outlawing slavery and putting down House Valac's little uprising in response Denika Agares I raises a prominent local family to noble House status and then returns to the capital with their daughter to secure a political marriage to give them a foot in the door. The main bulk of the story would have been split between the daughter, Fa Mim, learning to navigate the world of Garacani nobility, and a growing unrest among the Garacani upper class over suddenly having to treat their Hahn Gar laborers like people and seeing one of them hobnobbing with the upper crust like some kinda bigshot, until they have to put down another god damn dickhead uprising.
Then I got burned out on Gondolend in general, so I put the whole setting on indefinite hiatus and this story will probably not be told in full any time soon. I still wanted to explore ancient Garacani society though, so I decided to reuse a lot of the ideas I'd come up with for it for the Empire of Matuwali in my Erud setting.
