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Soon discovered by the ship’s crew, Lyranthine would have been put to death but for her immense intelligence and gift for legerdemain. At first, she was kept alive only as an amusement. But her usefulness was immediately apparent, and soon she was recalculating their routes, streamlining their supply chains, renegotiating their agreements, and slowly establishing her grasp on the organization. By the [[third century Valanthe|third century]], some two hundred years later, she had gained control one of the largest private merchant fleets in the archipelago, running [[liquor]], [[drugs|intoxicants]], [[Hinazka prayer-books]], smutty novels, minor magical and mechanical amusements and other luxuries throughout the [[Skaugan Main]], specializing in providing what people most desired – or the illusion of it. | Soon discovered by the ship’s crew, Lyranthine would have been put to death but for her immense intelligence and gift for legerdemain. At first, she was kept alive only as an amusement. But her usefulness was immediately apparent, and soon she was recalculating their routes, streamlining their supply chains, renegotiating their agreements, and slowly establishing her grasp on the organization. By the [[third century Valanthe|third century]], some two hundred years later, she had gained control one of the largest private merchant fleets in the archipelago, running [[liquor]], [[drugs|intoxicants]], [[Hinazka prayer-books]], smutty novels, minor magical and mechanical amusements and other luxuries throughout the [[Skaugan Main]], specializing in providing what people most desired – or the illusion of it. | ||
In her many travels and trade junkets, Lyranthine acquired, in addition to a variety of provocative conversation pieces, one of the largest private libraries of books mundane and magical. Through careful study over two centuries, she became a powerful [[wizard]], specializing in deception, illusion, and other skills useful to the modern businesswoman. Though in her early life she led ships and crews throughout the known world, by the time of [[The Fishwives]] she only rarely disembarked from her pleasure-barge [[The | In her many travels and trade junkets, Lyranthine acquired, in addition to a variety of provocative conversation pieces, one of the largest private libraries of books mundane and magical. Through careful study over two centuries, she became a powerful [[wizard]], specializing in deception, illusion, and other skills useful to the modern businesswoman. Though in her early life she led ships and crews throughout the known world, by the time of [[The Fishwives]] she only rarely disembarked from her pleasure-barge [[The Buoyant Libertine]], spending her days studying shipping charts and magical tomes in her study and her nights sipping wine and listening to the [[elven]] bards’ serenades on the garden decks as she contemplated the [[moon]]. | ||
Tales of the beautiful and ruthless Lyranthine abounded. Rumor held that her vast pleasure fleet concealed darker trades – in weapons, slaves, prostitutes, espionage, or even forbidden magic, but her cunning and power of illusion obscured the true nature of her business. | Tales of the beautiful and ruthless Lyranthine abounded. Rumor held that her vast pleasure fleet concealed darker trades – in weapons, slaves, prostitutes, espionage, or even forbidden magic, but her cunning and power of illusion obscured the true nature of her business. | ||