//Absurdly helpful for people writing royal characters and/or characters who interact with royalty and members of the nobility.
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Citizen is simpler and more beautiful~ but just in case anyone needs this.
DUDE BUT THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL PEOPLE
in medieval times you ONLY addressed a king/queen with “Your Majesty”, NEVER “Your Highness”. To address a king/queen with “Your Highness” was considered an insult.
My fellow exophilia fic writing friends, handy info on titles.
Also, never call royalty “My Lord” or “My Lady” unless they give you leave to do so. If you are unsure of a person’s station, “Your Excellency” or “Your Eminence” are good catch-all titles.
Additionally, “Your Grace” can be used for nobility, but it is mostly reserved for clergy members above the position of priest. A priest is simply known as “Father.”
For reference.
Balmain menswear, fall 2016
Yes please, I want men to dress like they’ve stepped off the set of Star Wars or straight out of the Caucasus!
Deceiververse || World Building
Types of Magic || Familiars
Familiar Magic
What is typically known as a familiar is a non-magical person who has connected to a witch by magical means. The ritual and corresponding spell that magically links a witch with their familiar is well protects and considered to be a sort of marriage. In exchange for a familiar’s service to a witch, they receive the powers granted to them by the bond.
Familiars can turn into animals. At the event of a ritual, familiars receive their animal counterpart, one animal based off their connection with their witch and their geographical location. They can shift into their animal form at will. They also have advanced healing powers that allow them heal their own injuries that may be incurred from association with a witch.
Society
Familiars are spies, tricksters, and helpers. Their connection with their witch allows them to find each other where ever they are. That makes familiars unwelcome in separate covens or in Deceiver spaces. They are neither part of the non-magical world, nor entirely welcome in witch society.
History
The practice of making non-magical people into familiars was popularized by a coven of witches in Scotland in the late middle ages. The practice at the time was considered a trade of power. Witches got a servant and non-magical people got access to magic and connections within magical society. The Deceiver’s Network outlawed familiar rituals from 1893 to 1945, but the practice continued behind closed doors.
Around the 1950s to the 1970s, the push to consider familiars “part of the family” changed the way witches and familiars interact. The ritual became centered around friendship and love rather then partnership and power. Now, that partnership is considered a great honor for non-magical people and the relationship between witches and their familiars is mainly one of friendship and support between the magic world and the non-magical world.
For reference: colors produced using dyes available in the Middle Ages. [source]
A reminder that the clothing of the Middle Ages was less brown (and the people were more brown) than often depicted.
When in doubt take a shower
I just sat in front of my computer for twenty minutes without typing more than a hundred words so I stopped and took a shower. When I came back I sat down and typed 1k for my WIP in forty minutes. Let the soap and water wash away your writer’s block
