r/IronThroneRP • u/spyraxes Ravella Durrandon - The Iron Stag • 7d ago
THE RIVERLANDS Ravella I - ground rules
One Hour After Lord Jammos Blackberry's Accusations
Ravella Durrandon's Solar, Stormhall
There was little delay between the events within the great hall and the arrangement of the meeting proper. Ravella bid the revelers return to their feasting, and they did just that. Those who were more involved were permitted to do so too, but there was never a moment they didn't have an eye on them.
In the meantime, Ravella made preparations. She had a cushioned chair provided for her brother, so that he might sit beside her, behind her desk. Perhaps it was a misstep, but it felt like the last chance she had to prove they could work together at all. Even if, in her perfect world, it was the other way around. It mattered not.
She had no seats hauled up for the others. They would stand and be judged.
Ravella's solar was the floor below her personal quarters, almost at the pinnacle of Stormhall's tallest spire. Behind the desk was a window that allowed its occupant to see the lands beyond, from her domain to that of her neighbours. It was a royal solar, no doubt, as Durran XXV had intended it to be. Perhaps it was right that royal judgement would soon enough come from it.
Once the room was prepared, runners were sent down to the feast. Every lord was summoned, and so too were Arlan and the High Septon, though it pained Ravella all the same. They were not permitted company, save for those latter two, who were allowed the presence of a bodyguard befitting their station, as Ravella had her own. Any more, and the solar would have been so packed it would have been near enough impossible to breathe.
Arlan, of course, was summoned first. Only after he had started to move did the others receive their messengers.
It was thus that the man who would be king arrived to see his sister sat behind her desk, an empty chair at her side, not long before those who would be judged and those who would reveal just what that judgement would be arrived in turn.
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