![[characters_banner_2.webp]] `Apr. 22, 2025` · [[Horseapple]] · #Fragment #Characters #Bannerlord ![[Taseil.png|right|200]] > [!custom-callout]- All mentions > *Pulled from* [[3-Travels-in-Calradia-(DLC)]] — “Istiana's agent in Seonon, Taseil, is one of the few Battanians not under Caladog's spell. She was a niece of old High King Aeril, who gave Caladog his daughter in marriage when the latter was just a young warrior, an orphan of no account, and for his generosity 'was murdered' - according to Taseil, anyway. Her parents had opposed Caladog's rise and were executed, and those family members who survived were driven into exile. But the usurper, who bestows punishment and mercy according to his whim, chose to spare her. By all accounts, Caladog is a clever and calculating man. He chooses deliberately to act arbitrarily and impulsively, as though he were born to kingship and never doubts his own authority, as far as possible from the man he truly is, someone who needed to plot his every move to the top.” — “Anyway, Taseil has been left to live by herself in one of those dark round towers, cluttered with her family's belongings. While I was there she went frequently to the woods to hunt, but I suspect the stipend that Istiana pays her is her only source of income. I made my bed near what I thought was a refuse pile, but turned out on closer examination to a heap of skulls. She told me proudly that this was her family's collection of trophies, collected over hundreds of years of battles and duels. Each skull had a story, she said, and she proceeded to tell me many of them - this one, a cataphract, slain by an uncle at the Battle of Pendraic (could be Ergeon fen-Derngil); this one, a chieftain of the fen-Derngil, slain by a distant ancestor for his insolent tongue. She would rebel openly against Caladog, she said, except that if she lost her own life, who would take care of her skulls and who would remember the deeds behind each one?” > &emsp;&emsp;<br> ![[encyclopedia_calradica.gif|center|300]]<br> >*“A massive `Mount & Blade` wikipedia.”*<br>About [Encyclopædia Calradica](About-the-Encyclopædia.md)<br>About the [Project](Project-(Pillar).md)<br>About the [Author](Horseapple.md) <br>&emsp;&emsp;