Thread:Sotter/@comment-31763506-20170910001647/@comment-31763506-20170910125012

Fluid-decanter wrote: Here, while I'm looking at the dump for guide-writing purposes, I grabbed this conversation and cleaned it up a bit for readability. Cool! Thanks, Decanter!

The key line is #23, "Oh, everyone could tell you two would get together...", and I'm actually wondering if SL has gone through and corrected the second half a bit since I first brought up how odd the line was on Patreon, since I don't remember the words "early on" being there last time I played through.

But I think you see why it's so strange. Hilstara's service with both of them in Zirantia started at an absolute minimum around six years after their marriage, and probably closer to ten or eleven depending on the duration of the Zirantian campaign, and six years of extremely bloody war at that. Even assuming that Simon and Wendis were serving continuously in the same unit throughout that period, which is unlikely since (I think) Simon is supposed to have had his first command by the time of Zirantia and the Ardan army involvement was unofficial on at least some level, there aren't likely to have been all that many surviving people hanging around from whom Hilstara could have gathered with confidence what the attitudes of "everyone" in the unit towards Simon and Wendis' courtship would have been six to eleven years prior. (Especially if Hilstara was under sixteen at the time.)  It's information she has no business having as casually as the line expresses it.

I think I'm going to suggest that SL revise it (maybe again) so that the opinion, (and maybe the telling of the cleavage joke) is displaced to some other character of longer acquiantance with Simon and Wendis who told Hilstara about the couple's history together. (SL has said on Patreon that Hilstara had an "adolescent interest" in both, which is consistent with her chatting people up about them.)