Kerith sounds a bit disappointed. “I see. I had hoped she could go to one who has chosen to risk blood on her behalf. I may be forced to give her to someone like Tiernly the Younger. Then I’d have to fight a war over her rightful gift of your hero’s reward.”<br/><br/>(Dora can easily hear this interplay as the surface thoughts of Aren and Kerith.)<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">DC 15 Knowledge (nobility and royalty) or (local)</div><div class="spoiler_body">Tiernly is a vassal house of the Duke of Orberend, as Harkess is to Valnith, the Duchess of Woodwych. Orberend shares Woodwych's northern border and is Nyrond’s other border territory with the palatine County of Urnst to the north. Tiernly the Younger has a reputation as quite a weaselly and debauched sort and is rumored to have made some quite..."distasteful" remarks concerning what he would do with Victoriana on their wedding night and thereafter.</div></div>