Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20141209211951/@comment-6192846-20150221162038

Do you mean she or the "Flower of the Plateau" moniker? If the latter, then I think it should be on the Countess' article as well and that it's made clear to be about the name everyone called "Mikulia" there.

On a somewhat related note, there's one thing that's been nagging at me ever since we dropped the info. I've finally gone through all the facts and think found where the error in logic occurred so here's what I've collected.

First up, the Lunacy novel stuff:

1) Elluka writes a report regarding the harem women she met during the post-processing of the Veno Event case, Mikulia among them.

2) Elluka details her second-hand knowledge that Mikulia had fled from Abito shortly after giving birth to her child. She's spotted at a brothel a year later.

3) Elluka indicates she met Mikulia, reminiscing that pleasing the neighborhood customers seemed to make her happy in its own way. Then she moves onto the next woman.

Second, the Gift novel stuff:

1) FotP tales say that Mikulia killed her child; Elluka surmises that therefore she couldn't have descendants as that was her "only" child.

2) To counter Eve's statement that she coud've had other children with Gilbert, Elluka claims that she witnessed Mikulia die at a young age and that it occurred "soon after" she had given birth to "that child".

Finally, the FotP song:

1) The line regarding the son's desire for his mother's affection is followed by "Even if she was a stupid whore who abandoned/discarded (the child) she birthed herself."

So I found where the error and logic nagged at me. Elluka claims Mikulia had only one child and has referenced meeting Elluka and witnessing her die. Her deduction to Eve wouldn't make sense unless she was absolutely certain Mikulia had no other children but the one before she died.

Elluka cites knowledge of Mikulia having one child in Abito and fleeing with that child afterward. And in Gift, Elluka says the vague "Soon after" but that doesn't necessarily mean the birth of "that child" was what caused Mikulia's death. That window of "soon" could mean anything, especially to Elluka.

An approximate year isn't that long and Mikulia would still be young. If Elluka headed over during that timeframe and met Mikulia shortly before she died of whatever, it would make sense.

There's also no direct statement in the FotP song that the son was born in the whorehouse; my understanding of the lyrics is just that it's admitting she birthed him and that he was allegedly abandoned/discarded by her (well, she died when he a babe so....).

And Elluka's report in Lunacy about Mikulia is evasive on actually meeting with her. She talks about what Maylis apparently does with her child and gives a little on her conversations with Lukana/Mikulia, but stops short of what leads she had been following on Mikulia and giving her vague impression of the girl. That sounds really carefully worded imo.

So basically, I feel all the above facts only makes sense if Mikulia's only child was her Veno son and that that was the child who the fake Mikulia killed. He was born in Abito, taken with her to the whorehouse, died shortly after of some unknown cause, and later went to Calgaround in search of his mother.

Thoughts?