User blog comment:Prof. Draco/RP/ Cursed be he.../@comment-1674153-20130608192043

"While you were being stabbed in the back in quite the literal sense, Mr. Miguel, your friend Mr. Taylor and three other agents were busy fending for their lives in Portugal - I had hired two thieves to break into the tombs of Pedro the I of Portugal and his almost wife, Ines de Castro, with the specific instructions to get a priceless treasure from Pedro's tomb that would allow them access to Ines'."

Gloria traced her hands along the throne as she spoke, watching for Aden.

"What the thieves didn't know was that Pedro's crown was the priceless treasure - an artifact. Pedro, before he became King in 1357, had been having a heavy love affair with the handmaiden of his wife. Pedro's father, Alfonso the IV, became worried that this affair would bring the Castile's back to power, as the handmaiden, Ines de Castro, was the daughter of a wealthy Castilian landowner. So, he had her killed."

"So angry at Ines' death became Pedro that he opened a revolt against his father, and when he became King a year after the feud ended, he found two of his beloved's three asassins and murdered them, by ripping out their hearts like they had ripped out his."

"His crown has the same effect - it exudes homicidal rage, and once it latches onto a host, will use them to murder anyone who threatens the host's love." Gloria paused as Aden came back into the room.

"The only way to stop Pedro's crown, as I accurately guessed, would be to have it touch the crown of Ines, who was murdered before she could become a technical queen of Portugal. But Pedro made her queen anyway, and had her body sit on this very throne as all the noblemen kissed her decaying hand to honor their new queen." Gloria seemed to grow angry at this.

"He sat her body in the place where only years earlier, his actual wife sat. The wife who had to watch her husband choose her handmaiden over her." She looked at the group in front of her. "Do you even know her name? Constance of Penafiel. She was married to Pedro after her diasterous first marriage to Alonso XI of Castile...who divorced her after two years, and locked her away in prison until she could be freed by her father. She was then married off to Pedro to secure an alliance, and spent much of her marriage to him being ignored and knowing that Ines and her family were getting her husband's attention."

"And after being married to Pedro for six years, she died only weeks after giving birth to the next heir to the crown, a feat that would have helped Constance keep her position with dignity," Gloria spat, having put her arms around the throne like a friend would put her arms around a friend to present her to threat that hurt them, in order to defend them.

"Your Warehouse didn't even care about Constance," she said to Aden, bitterly, "As I found out, you stuck her throne in some distant corner of the Warehouse until I pulled it out. And while normally it would only make whoever sits in the chair feel sad and heartbroken...Your actions are what caused this throne to be this much more powerful."

