#(implied anwen evergreen and implied trammander somewhere if you squint hard but that's just personal)

[archesa]

Wontersday prompt ❄️

2 for Faren

7 for Trahearne

23 for Canach

Happy Christmas Eve and Happy Wintersday with the first of these three prompts ✨🎄☃️ Hope you'll enjoy!

Have you been naughty or nice?

The gazette, printed in golden-edged paper, was amongst the most prized and long-awaited distractions of the season.

From the last warm days of summerset to the first days of december, the high borne society of the Reach coveted the list of the most eligible bachelors, to seal alliances with and throw their daughters at*. *or their sons, for the matter...

Year after year, ever so rarely dethroned from the very top of the list, a certain Lord Faren, whose scandalous ventures and heroic endeavours never failed to pique the interest of many a bored reader. But this year, 'twere his numerous visits to every toymaker and confectionner in ton that intrigued the writers and readers of the scandal sheets and respectable gazettes. Was the Reach's most eligible bachelor courting a mother? Or were the presents to be seen as an early announcement of a close relative's long expected happy event?

Rumours run wild, and it seemed the highest circles of society had yet again conveniently forgotten Lord Faren's constant patronage and support of Kryta's orphanages. And the morning of the winter solstice, the journalists, reporters and rumourmongers hopes for a good old-fashioned scandal were utterly twarted when, instead of a liaison or a pregnancy being revealed, the all-relative secrecy of Faren's endeavour appeared to be a trap to lure them to the annual Wintersday's Eve feast and gift distribution at Salma's Orphanage.

And in the absence of any gossip, the scandal sheets and respectable journals of the capital on Wintersday morning all titled : “Have you been naughty or nice?”