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[quote=Enalais]
[quote=Xilaw]
[quote]Tis was my plan the entire time sir!
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Oops. I spoiled the surprise.
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I was thinking a defunct house of some sort that got jipped by the crown.
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Wait, how about a bastard son of the former king? 
What a scandal would it be! So frivolous! *giggles*
Or, yeah, you could always go with the last offspring of a noble house annihilated by the royal family.
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Revenge is so much more sweeter when it's Patricide.