Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-25941257-20170924103337/@comment-31763506-20171001163728

I actually asked SL about the Duke of Stineford when I was trying to work out what was going on with the royal succession when the only visible members of the Ardan Royal Family were an 85 year old king and a niece of his who was in her teens or early 20s. Alonon had a lot of other brothers (and sisters?) who didn't make it through the war owing to Leeroy Jenkinsism, and Tyna's mom married VERY late in life precisely because there was a growing concern that there might not be any other heirs to Alonon besides her, so now the people in the notional line of succession by primogeniture (ahead of Tyna) are nephews and grandnephews we haven't seen as yet. The Duke of Stineford is NOT a member of the royal family though.

It'd be interesting to know if, now that we know Stineford came under Ardan rule in the 2nd Arclent War, the Duke is an Ardan noble who assumed control over the area as a fief under King Alonon, or if he represents some continuity with the previous political system.

I agree with Fulminato, the likely buyers of the crystals were probably the Order of Thaumaturgy, and their refusal to allow succubuses to study sexual magic there is rank hypocrisy.