The comments from Liavan's sisters make it clear that their mother's unpleasantry had been going on for so long that they'd just pushed it to the background. With luck having it pointed out — to everyone — will get things corrected that much faster. Or it might just make her resentment all the stronger.
Liavan's mother also had complaints about colorful clothing, but here are her sisters wearing strongly-colored things. Still more evidence that, however unpleasant her mother was in general, she was particularly so to Liavan.
...the spell on that book is odd. As others have pointed out, it doesn't seem to have the potentially desirable effect of making the book unreadable, nor making the person reading it fail to learn what's in it. Maybe her great-aunt was trying to make sure that the book got read a lot, in hopes of someone actually learning what was in it? Though the bits about the baron's great uncle would argue against that.
Well, at least now we, and Liavan, have an idea of where she learned about how curses work. In fine form, she has ideas on how to actually extract the information from the book, and to experimentally determine how the spell works.
Yay exploring! I hope she does take up the mapping idea, at least for the places she's visiting. I note she didn't pick up any tools I'd consider useful for mapping while at the market, though (compass, paper, protractor, sextant, surveyor's chains, etc.). She's having to work on gathering money and magic, so perhaps that'll happen later. Meanwhile, she can collect plants. I hope she doesn't run into either boar or deer...
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Liavan's mother also had complaints about colorful clothing, but here are her sisters wearing strongly-colored things. Still more evidence that, however unpleasant her mother was in general, she was particularly so to Liavan.
...the spell on that book is odd. As others have pointed out, it doesn't seem to have the potentially desirable effect of making the book unreadable, nor making the person reading it fail to learn what's in it. Maybe her great-aunt was trying to make sure that the book got read a lot, in hopes of someone actually learning what was in it? Though the bits about the baron's great uncle would argue against that.
Well, at least now we, and Liavan, have an idea of where she learned about how curses work. In fine form, she has ideas on how to actually extract the information from the book, and to experimentally determine how the spell works.
Yay exploring! I hope she does take up the mapping idea, at least for the places she's visiting. I note she didn't pick up any tools I'd consider useful for mapping while at the market, though (compass, paper, protractor, sextant, surveyor's chains, etc.). She's having to work on gathering money and magic, so perhaps that'll happen later. Meanwhile, she can collect plants. I hope she doesn't run into either boar or deer...