who will be coming?

[small_magics]

Aianon has made a plant in the open airless space above the surface of Thilanushinyel. It is a very, very large plant - some dragons will be attending the party, after all, even if Ansharil in particular is going to be assorted small things and stay on Sarion's person the bulk of the time.

The locals will be Sarion, her beloveds, their other beloved, the five conjured dragons (and their Bondmates, where applicable: Virgivere and Lissa), and Liselen - Magania has, as usual, declined, and so far no Bell party has featured Bell parents.

Amariah is bringing her boyfriend and spontaneous daughter and two of the spontaneous daughter's friends, as well as an Alethian instance of the Rupert template.

Shell Bell is bringing Pearl and Screwdriver.

Golden is bringing her usual large contingent, as usual not including her husband but including her daughter and daughter's grown fosterling (the other remaining at home) and his wolf, both mothers-in-law and one father-in-law, adopted siblings, staff members including the Joker and Nathan, and the children of the aforementioned.

Glass is bringing both wives, all three daughters, Kanim, and her cat. She invited Icarin and Valeria, but their parents are not willing to let them gallivant into other worlds unsupervised and had a scheduling conflict.

Stella's bringing a smattering of people including Alice, Anna, Sandy, Libby, Bridget, her college roommate Janine, and Lazarus.

Tab is bringing Aelise (but not Kers) and Luhan.

Etty is bringing only Nona.

Aether, likewise, brings no one but Celo.

Pattern comes with Ripper, Slipstick, Queenie, and Ghosty.

Aegis is accompanied by her four-bodied boyfriend, Merryweather, Whitlock, and Howlett.

Aurora comes with Brilliance, Lexi with her Device Persica, Agent Honey with her Device Adularia, and Beth.

Rose brings her husband and three children and her former apprentice, Luc.

Angela brings her husband, her four children, several of her friends, and some of those friends' children and grandchildren with and without wings. Keziah also brings a friend.

Juliet shows up with Soph, Minus, Red, Giles, James, Virginia, Minnie, Ike, and Val.

Cam brings Jellybean and Tilly and stops there.

And from unBelled worlds hail additional Sherlocks and Tonies, Darcy, Matilda, Pepper, and Eights.

Comments

[snowandsparks]

"It would be a kind of presumptuous question! And I still don't really know her."

[newtimov]

"I could ask Juliet," he says.

[snowandsparks]

"Would she know? I'm not clear on how much they talk to each other about that kind of thing. Also there was something to do with time going on that I don't understand."

[newtimov]

"If she doesn't know, I'm sure she can find out!"

[snowandsparks]

"Okay then."

[newtimov]

He brainphones Juliet.

[Hey, do you know if Angela made herself be going to be Archangel or if she was already going to be anyway?]

[cross_and_bow]

[She was a likely candidate but her probability hadn't gone up enough to be announced until she interfered. Why?]

[newtimov]

[Idle curiosity. Thanks!]

He relays this information word-for-word to Lucas.

[snowandsparks]

"Huh. Kind of between the guesses."

[newtimov]

"Yep!" says Ike.

[snowandsparks]

"I have no idea how the spaceship used to pick them, though. I mean, it picked Raphael."

[newtimov]

"So clearly whatever way it picked them had problems."

[snowandsparks]

"Yeah. Most people are pretty happy with Isabella succeeding Linus, though."

[newtimov]

"Good!"

[snowandsparks]

"Yeah, it'd be messy if there were a lot of disagreement about it. She's made some unpopular choices but Bethel's been doing really well with her leading the Eyrie host, so people are optimistic."

[newtimov]

"Unpopular choices?"

[snowandsparks]

"Well, after people realized she didn't make the marriage amendment because the Jansai were paying her, there was some opposition to that."

[newtimov]

"Oh," says Ike, unhappily.

[snowandsparks]

"Yeah. And I'm not very good about following the details of economics, but I don't think all of that was popular either, and she's married to an Edori so people who don't like Edori aren't thrilled with her."

[newtimov]

"What's an Edori?"

[snowandsparks]

"They're this - culture. Most of them live on Ysral, the smaller continent, now, but there are still some on Samaria. They wander around, even more than Jansai do. They pronounce Jovah 'Yovah', I think they have their own language, they don't believe in marriage except apparently the angelico-to-be was fine with it."

[newtimov]

"Oh. And there are people who don't like them?"

[snowandsparks]

"Back when we had slavery they were the ones who were slaves. The Jansai in particular don't get along with them too well."

[newtimov]

"...I see," says Ike.

[snowandsparks]

"Also they look different. Isabella's husband doesn't because the Edori adopted him, but mostly they're kind of distinctive. Darker, by and large."