Ch. 124 Family Matters

"He is my Father, Artro Vellen. I can only guess that you might have seen him when he married my mother, or her gift was sealed. I do not know if it would be considered customary for the matriarch to attend such events personally."

"It is not, but at the time I would have only been the apparent heir to the position of matriarch, so the duty of overseeing the sealing of your mother by an elder of her mother's lineage, or ancestral line. Most often the task would be given to a great aunt, or cousin of ones mother, and not someone you are directly descended from. As part of my duties as the next in line, I had to oversee several sealing ceremonies. While I can not be certain there is a good chance that is where I would have seen him before."

"Unlikely, I was not permitted to be at the ceremony. It is more likely that you have seen my painting hanging in a certain hall, or perhaps on the coins of my kingdom, from before I had the face on them changed to that of Ciara."