Thread:Darkwarrior101/@comment-24463571-20150312041415

Fever dreams are always fun stuff.

In this adventure, I was two different Lens at the same time and one of them was the King of Marlon. It was more or less the beginng to Praefacio where Kyle's ship is boarded by pirates and Kyle spends far too much time in flashbacks than reporting on the action. In one of these flashbacks (which King Len was narating in the dream), Kyle complains that his mother never allowed him to be tuaght swordsplay because, in accordance with Marlon military tradition, the king does not stand in the front line of battle but instead directs his soldiers from behind them. And Kyle doesn't pursue the issue because he is Kyle and he always obeys his mother.

The non-prince Len cuts in at this point and asks, "She didn't teach you how to defend yourself, right? Wasn't that on purpose?" And Prince Len laughs, "Ahahahaha of course not aha... aha... well, f*** you're right."

Which was more or less my reaction when I woke up. I don't think it was ever mentioned later in the book, but it's pretty sketchy that Prim, a notable murderer, never taught her son to defend himself against attack or at the very least prevented him from earning any power for himself. It seems highly intentional for her. 