The Prince's Harlot

[Esterlen 4499]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_BL5HQSdnA

 

 
15th of Sun's Smile, 1459

“You are to be burned at the stake until dead, your marriage forcibly annulled, and the progeny of your union declared bastards in the eyes of the law,” Edmond de Savoie had calmly pronounced her sentence and then commanded the Caerngard to carry it out, supported by the chancellor.

Crown Princess Vittoria was, in his eyes, a terrible woman who most deserved death as a punishment, but the cruel fate that was inflicted upon her may have been seen as too radical or extreme for her crimes. On the same token high treason, witchcraft, adultery and fraud, though, were severe charges which the law was expected to deal with in the harshest possible light.

“What of this putain, this harlot, the Crown Prince’s *****? Why doesn’t somebody just get rid of her?” Edmond had asked the Viceroy this once, befuddled by the fact that she was permitted to deal with affairs of state as if she were the Emperor with teats.

She had fornicated with a knight of the Caerngard, Damien Crowley, and with the uncle of a lord, Marcellus of Kaphro. While they had yet to be hunted down, accounted for and properly hanged, it would only be a matter of time. Savoie, Brunswick and the Viceroy had worked together in their prosecution, working with this commission using the Emperor’s authority and had found her guilty of all the crimes attributed to her, but it was ultimately her own husband, the Crown Prince, who gave the final order to have her executed.
 

“She is no wife of mine, nor was she ever a Chivay,” Robert had said in his missive to the commissioner, “And if the High Pontiff cannot grant my request, I shall find other means of securing this annulment.”

By all rights, despite her immensely overpowering desire to disparage anyone lower than her station as a commoner or a peasant, it was found in the Imperial inquest that Vittoria herself was a peasant, the daughter of a kitchen wench at the court of her supposed ‘father’, Owyn of Horen, who never married and has no trueborn progeny to this date. The oyer and terminer report would be released to the public in time, but for now the chief order of business was to send a missive to the High Pontiff securing a posthumous annulment for the Crown Prince’s failed marriage, and a declaration of their supposed ‘children’s’ bastardy and elimination from the line of succession.

And so like that, Vittoria Chivay’s life was snuffed out, burnt at the stake at the age of 31 on the orders of Robert Chivay. A warning to all whores, frauds, traitors and usurpers who would slip between the sheets and hope to challenge those men whom the Emperor delegates his authority to. As there must be an heir to the throne, the Crown Prince is privately expected to marry again. Ave Imperium!

[Cat Evocation 3728]

Merit mutters something about burning criminals. "Just like my father when he was Lord High Sheriff... Oh creator."

[LeRenardNoir 413]

Donatien watches the acrid smoke curl into the sky, looking to Edmond with a look of satisfaction. "You truly are the right man to bear my saintly father's namesake." At that, Donatien would look up at the sky, hoping his father is smiling down upon him from up in the Seven Skies.

[AlmondTree 418]

Vittoria cringes from the lies and disgust men of Oren possess. Innocent but who is she to say, after all she's just a woman.

[Markus Wander 4]

Markus sat alone in the second pew of the Church of Saint Adeodatus in Kaldonia, staring at his lap and holding a cold cloth on the sizable lump forming on the top of his head from the fight he had just gotten in with two members of the Caerngard. The beating that started with Markus spitting at the feet of one of the Caerngard eventually ended with a bystander dropping a brick on his head. He knew if Steward Theodosius hadn't intervened, he'd have had it even that much worse. What kind of men were these soldiers of Oren, who could swear to protect someone one day, then burn them to death the next? Markus still couldn't quite think straight, and he hoped the creator might offer him some answers, but none came. None ever seemed to come from the creator anymore.

[hjgklmn0ajuvxc 688]

Vittoria cringes from the lies and disgust men of Oren possess. Innocent but who is she to say, after all she's just a woman.

she is also dead 

[Helbolt 129]

Lord Frost, after having been kicked out of the palace by the Caerngard, suspected a coup d'etat by military forces.  He gathered several men for a resistance effort to protect his Lord's wife from what reminded him of King Francis's murder.  Instead, he receives word of the burning from his eyes within the palace.  The gates having been closed throughout the entire trial and execution required such.  His face twitched as he tossed the letter into the fire.  "Your services will no longer be needed," he spoke in a monotone voice to those around him.

[Aetosion 2062]

Vittoria cringes from the lies and disgust men of Oren possess. Innocent but who is she to say, after all she's just a woman.

Edward also resolves to pull the gender card when convicted of several heinous felonies. He nods at the missive notifying the court of the conviction, and returns to work, black ink staining his hands after hours of writing

[Rassidic 470]

Prey laughs.

[Major Dom 1297]

"Dismantle the patriarchy!" shouts woman

[Glyc 234]

Moved to the Great Library. It shall be sorted into appropriate category shortly.