"Bwa ha ha!" said Jessica with a grin. "We'll have our evil way with you."<br/>"If we going to use at least some of the background maybe the Queen has enlisted partof her guard from swordswomen"<br/>"Are you familar with the RPG called Seven Seas? It has a fantasy Europe roughly similar to the 1600's. The countries have different names but they are rather obvious analogues of the Powers of that day. We could tinker with that model since it does have women as soldiers and masters of the sword."