Hex 29.14.40
As a mages grow in power the laws of reality twist to their whims, but no matter how great they wax their bodies remain feeble things caught in the flow of time. So Iraine’s quest for immortality is not surprising but perhaps her plan to achieve it is: she plans to get married.
And to not just anyone, to Alberon, the God of the City of Shuttered Windows. If he married the Green Lady and She Who Waits, why now her? For the last decade most of Iraine’s efforts have been focused on achieving this end. She has drained most of her treasury, stolen secrets from the minotaurs, traded lore with Dormond of the Crooked Oak (04.31), and has returned from the depths of the Library without a Floor (28.07).
Her lofty thousand-corniced tower (the Suitor’s Tower), which is always shrouded in storm clouds (so that it never casts a shadow), is now full with strange oddities and parts of a thousand creatures, torture chambers in which men’s secrets are peeled off with their skins and strange labs full of smoking vats in which strange things crawl in spider limbs. Of particular note is Lars, a chimera created in Alberon’s image.
Iraine the Suitor has not yet won the hand of a god but she is confident that her research is nearing its conclusion and soon she will ascend.
Connections:
- Iraine is the elder sister of Uriza the Solemn (15.24).
- One of Iraine’s creations is a chimera named Lars (29.14.41).
- The wooden gargoyles are carved by Jassetta Birl, a scion of an ancient Witch Clan.
Hooks:
- Does marrying a god really turn you into one? Has anyone done this?
- Why is it important that Iraine’s tower never cast a shadow?
- What interesting secrets does Iraine the Suitor know?
- What exactly is she trying to do to win Alberon’s hand?
- What interesting stuff in her tower?
- What are those spider-legged thingies?