1875-10-15: Unlawful Galas in Aeqour
Unlawful Galas in Aequor
IC Date: 187510-15
Related Information: The Rule of War, which at the command of Cardinal Ramius has made any non-military/wartime displays and arts illegal in Aequor

Rumors of wild and elaborate masquerade galas that seemingly spring from absolutely nowhere have been spreading around Aequor. Nobody knows when they'll appear or where, but suddenly the summer homes of wealthy nobles will fill with caterers and servants and porters and musicians and artists, and word will race to all the right people: Dancing! Music! Art! Colour! Pageantry! Performances of popular operettas performed by torchlight without warning to astonished market crowds with singers like the voices of mountains and spring flowers. Riverside Inns transformed into feasthalls without warning. Distinctly Aequoran bacchanaliates descend into cities and villages and towns without rhyme or reason, and each one more elaborate and dazzling than the last.

Deprived of their celebrations, their art, their music and their joy in the beauty of their land, Aequorans cannot seem to stop talking about these parties either, though wary of Cardinal's Guards their gossip is done in private. Invitations to the more elaborate masque parties, they say, arrive with delicious mysteriousness in the form of masks with the address and a time, and sometimes even with carriages ready to whisk onetime courtiers and influencers away to these performances. Hardly anyone refuses to get in these carriages, either. Who would miss an opportunity like that? Oh, the Cardinal's Guard? Well, for some Aequorans, the danger just makes it that much sexier, and those fabulous clothes are just going to rot this season, aren't they? Many famous duellists are invited as well, and sometimes, the hottest whisper teases, there are Blue Cavaliers there! Oh, well, I think there are! Everyone's in masks, aren't they? It's just so exciting, anyway!

Who is behind these parties? Some suggest it's Myrana d'Armaz, for it certainly has her touch. It's a pretty good bet, anyway, as many of the plays and operettas and stories told at these parties are centered around themes of the old Aequoran ideals of Beauty in Chivalry, and the arts outlawed by the cardinal.

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