#lutilore

i’m serious that is not a “i’m going to say this is bad so people feel bad and read it and tell me i’m good” thing, i abhor those, this was written at 5 in the morning on 0 sleep and an entire jar of sliced peaches.

i needed to get some words out of my brain and couldn’t sleep and wanted to think about lore and whether i can be assed to actually try to sell or trade binary and so i spawned this piece of hot word vomit garbage, and rather than let it rot in my notes like i probably should i resolved to myself to post more actual lore on this awful shitposting blog so you all have to deal with the fact that you once had to even briefly glance at this post.

slaps a second “bad, do not read” sticker on this. adds a “author is tired and should go to bed” on for good measure

or: the crown prince absolutely does not have his shit together

Honored friends,

By royal decree of Their Majesties King Li Jiacai and Queen Ming Lianle of the Kingdom of Nanxing, you are one and all cordially invited to attend the marriage celebrations of His Highness Crown Prince Li Langfeng of the Kingdom of Nanxing, and Their Highness Prince Saranyu of the Sky Spire Empire, 23rd Child of Her Imperial Majesty Sparks.

Hello and welcome to Royal Marriage Shenanigans with Luti and Friends! Nanxing’s crown prince, Langfeng, and princeps of Sky Spire and current ward of Fenghuang, Saranyu, are getting HITCHED. And of course you can’t have royal marriages without Ostentatious Celebrations!

This is an open lore event (AKA: open to anyone and everyone!) that will take place, as of current planning, over the week of the Crystalline Gala, ending the day after Chinese New Years, Sunday, January 29th, which is when the wedding ceremony itself will take place in-lore. Of course, anyone who knows me knows that I’m absolute garbage at both planning and sticking to schedules, so that may or may not change later on, and the event will very likely continue in meta a bit longer than it does in-lore.

You are welcome to participate in this event as much or as little as you’d like. Just want to dress some dragons up in fancy clothes? You go! Feeling inspired for a little drabble or doodle? Good on you! Looking for an excuse to chat with new people and forge new relationships? Well buddy have I got news for you.

All posts relating to this event will be tagged as #the prince’s wedding. Please feel free to tag me in any posts you make relating to the event or if you have any questions, be it about the event, Nanxing, or any characters! My askbox and messages are also, as always, open.

My Nanxing dragons end with Huo on page 3. Characters available for interaction who still don’t have dragon equivalents are: King Jiacai, Queen Lianle, Prince Xuejin.

@frstraekitty @foxrising 

Aaand expressed interest, apology for any unwanted pings!

Lessee... That’s Langan and his retainer, Ansel! You haven’t specified a particular ask meme or question, so I suppose I’ll just throw out a handful of facts about them? How’s 5 sound?

Ansel can’t cook for anything, so instead he throws himself into two of the things he is good at: cleaning and sewing. Langan’s room is impeccably clean (which he appreciates - he likes a clean room, but being bedridden makes tidying difficult) and full of stuffed animals that Ansel made him (which he pretends not to appreciate, except he still plays with them and cuddles them when he sleeps sometimes).

Actually Ansel still makes Langan stuffed animals, though less often now. This is mostly to appease Langan’s protests that “Ansel, come on, I’m too old for that now!” The way he grins every time Ansel presents him with one is fooling no one.

Langan feels immensely guilty about what happened to Xuesen and Xuejin’s parents, despite their repeated protests that it wasn’t his fault and they don’t hold him accountable. Much of his personal motivation comes from a desire to feel himself worthy of the sacrifices made for him. He visits his aunt regularly and they’re very close.

Ansel came to Nanxing fairly young as a guardsman to a minor noble merchant house who treated him more like a son than a hired guard. He received a thorough education and now often also serves as Langan’s tutor when he doesn’t understand something or is too unwell to see his formal tutors.

Seeing as in FR-verse Arkay’s a god (albeit minor) with access to or the ability to make most magical items he’d feasibly want, I’ll answer this as though I was running him as a character!

He’d almost certainly be a Grave domain cleric, which is something fun to think about (especially given the other members of his entourage are likely… a fighter or paladin, rogue, druid, and… sorcerer, maybe? Makes for some pretty nice party comp. uwub