@EclecticInspiration
“so we cut them down without the worm’s aid, or the rot will do to us what it did to the king. if controlling it is that easy we should have done this long ago, my dear queen.”
@Jinx
“ah, so many questions about her, but i can tell you a few things indeed, she was always an ambitious girl, even when Tau was still everything a king should be, she tried to eke out a clan of her own, rousing citizens to her side and organizing desaster aid… some claim she also organized the desaster but if she did she is much better at covering her tracks than is possible. the king shut her down no less than five times, and when the rot took his mind he finally sentenced her to hang. she and her supporters heartily disagreed with that notion and she had the old badger Horaz, a knight of the court, free her and flee with her, since then she has gathered all that have been disenfranchised by his majesty. she declared the bandit clan a thing and here we are today, treating her as a power worth considering in schemes. i feel just a bit of motherloy pride, she grew up so fast.”