11-15-2019, 12:38 AM
When your mother had a title, the natural assumption from most is that this means you're rich. Certainly, that's what penniless nobles liked people to believe, regardless. Tangle's family had, point in fact, been fairly destitute by the standards of their peers. It had been to the point of it being a struggle to find the scion of a wealthy merchant family willing to marry in to save their finances.
The two things that even destitute noble houses tend to have, though, is land that scant handful of valuables too irreplaceable to have been sold yet, acquired over painstaking generations, or when the family was in better shape. Prior to being murdered by the Lycians, the previous Lord of this castle had been far from penniless himself, but Tangle was still equipped to be able to assess what pieces from the treasury maximised portability and value. This included what jewellery she could fit on her person, a needlessly ornate magical staff shoved through her belt, and a jewel encrusted sacred text of the Church of Saint Elimine. The kind that had been in abundance in Etruria at one point, but currently Tangle was surprised it hadn't already been burned.
She'd pry out the jewels later, for practicality's sake, and keep the book for herself. For now, the point was to get out before things got too much worse.
The two things that even destitute noble houses tend to have, though, is land that scant handful of valuables too irreplaceable to have been sold yet, acquired over painstaking generations, or when the family was in better shape. Prior to being murdered by the Lycians, the previous Lord of this castle had been far from penniless himself, but Tangle was still equipped to be able to assess what pieces from the treasury maximised portability and value. This included what jewellery she could fit on her person, a needlessly ornate magical staff shoved through her belt, and a jewel encrusted sacred text of the Church of Saint Elimine. The kind that had been in abundance in Etruria at one point, but currently Tangle was surprised it hadn't already been burned.
She'd pry out the jewels later, for practicality's sake, and keep the book for herself. For now, the point was to get out before things got too much worse.