[quote=@AtomicNut] Entirely your choice. Although the close shave seems delightfully funny. Also if she's as old as Adrian, she would look older than her own mother. :P (Lucrecia doesn't look past 30... her actual age is probably counted in centuries.) [/quote] The idea I had was that the witch queen had three children: two boys and a girl. And The girl was always a bit quirky, which had her brother convinced she had inherited magic from her mother, so as soon as he was in power he had her sent away to a remote summer house or something so if she did manifest as a witch she wouldn't be at the center of things. But at age 17 (I guess, since Adrian is 36 and I don't want her to have had a kid at younger than 17, and that way my character can be almost 20 [though I intended for her to be about 22, so maybe having the girl as a non-twin between the two boys would be best, depending on the age of the crown prince]), the princess became involved with the second son of a noble who lived nearby. And she died in labor, giving birth to a daughter. The young father swore that they had married in secret before the baby was born, and the king accepted the claim, as a legitimate niece could be useful, whereas an illegitimate niece was just shameful, and at least the father was from a respectable family. But the young father went off to another kingdom to manage some of his father's enterprises there, and willingly relinquished any claim on the baby. So her uncle took her in, figuring he may have overreacted at expecting his sister was a witch (and maybe experiencing some remorse at her death) and that there was no harm in keeping a close female relative for potential alliances. (It seems I've typed out a section of my character sheet, provided it's not rejected by the GM.) I'm not sure what you meant by "close shave."