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probitas et discordia

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Emperor Larsa Ferrinas Solidor finally married at seventeen, which might be young for a boy, but was to some old indeed for someone who had already led an empire for five years. And by then, few were surprised to find that it was not from the gentry that he at last chose a wife. He'd been so scandalously egalitarian for so long, it barely caused ripples.

And if the young emperor might also have had some other reason for being attracted to a common dancer, he didn't mention it aloud... and likely never would have, save for one fact, which was that the wisest man in Ivalice bore a child by a woman who attempted to assassinate him.

Her name was Osana, and she was a member of a cult based out of Northern Valendia, a group over eight centuries old that had divorced itself from the Light of Kiltia to pledge allegiance to a dancer-priestess named Müllenkamp.

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So it was that one night the sky pirate Penelope of the Branded Arms came to offer him solace, and he confessed to her. “I am a man who has had much taken from me. Nearly all that I loved, and nearly all that within a month's time, at that. And despite all of the privileges that loss has bought, I find it difficult to reconcile with the knowledge that I let the last of my loves walk away in turn; but what man would I be to deny truth?”

It isn't known what she said in response.

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