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40TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_ALDIYTHA_000_000Enjoying the festivities, I hope? Should you have any questions concerning my family, it would be my pleasure to answer them.
51TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_Q1_000_000What will you ask about?
62TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_A1_000_001Flower crowns.
73TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_A1_000_002Fortin Thorne.
84TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_A1_000_003Claudia Thorne.
95TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_A1_000_004The Thorne Dynasty.
106TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_A1_000_005The Little Ladies' Dance.
117TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_A1_000_006Nothing.
128TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_ALDIYTHA_000_001Following the events of the “Legend of the Lost Lady”─by which I mean after Sultan Baldric served as seneschal to a miller girl─he chose to do the same each year for other Ul'dahn ladies. It is said that this was his way of reminding himself and others that all girls should be treasured.
139TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_ALDIYTHA_000_002Then, one year, the girl he had chosen to be princess for a day presented him with a bouquet of daisies, to thank him for his service.
1410TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_ALDIYTHA_000_003Knowing how hard the girl had worked to pick them, the sultan gladly accepted the flowers, and bade his attendants fashion them into circlets. Then, removing his own royal crown, he placed one on his head, and another on hers. “We're the same, you and I,” he said, smiling.
1511TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_ALDIYTHA_000_004The Thorne family has considered daisies to be symbols of happiness ever since.
1612TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_ALDIYTHA_000_005...You look as though you have something on your mind. Do you perchance know something I do not concerning the flower crowns?
1713TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_ALDIYTHA_000_006I see, you are not at liberty to say... I understand. Not every adventure is a tale that can be shared.
1814TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_ALDIYTHA_000_007But if I am honest with you, that only makes me more curious to know. I hope you can one day tell me of this secret adventure.
1915TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_ALDIYTHA_000_010Fortin Thorne is my father and the head of House Thorne. It is his duty as representative of our family to sponsor Little Ladies' Day each year.
2016TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_ALDIYTHA_000_011Or, so I once thought. I realize now that for him, it is far more than duty which binds him to this celebration. Little Ladies' Day is the very thing which brought him and Mother together, and it is her memory and his love for her that drives him to ensure it continues.
2117TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_ALDIYTHA_000_012Much like how Princess Edvya and her father, Sultan Baldric, were able to see each other in a new light after her disappearance, I feel as though my father and I have a better understanding of one another after all that's happened today.
2218TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_ALDIYTHA_000_015Claudia Thorne...my mother, and eldest daughter of House Thorne before her passing. I am told she left this world soon after I was born into it.
2319TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_ALDIYTHA_000_016Her frequent bouts of illness prevented her from joining social functions held amongst the noble families of Ul'dah, but by pure chance, she was able to attend a Little Ladies' Day celebration long ago, where she met my father, and performed the Little Ladies' Dance for him.
2420TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_ALDIYTHA_000_017There is much I have still yet to learn about my mother, but from all I've been told, I cannot help but feel as though we had much in common. It makes me feel closer to her, as though some part of her is still alive in me.
2521TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_ALDIYTHA_000_020Though Ul'dah was founded by the House of Ul, control of the throne was wrested from them after a period of instability, with the House of Thorne being appointed to rule as stewards some three hundred and fifty summers ago.
2622TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_ALDIYTHA_000_021For more than a century, my forebears ruled, enacting countless reforms which would see their governance regarded favorably by the citizenry.
2723TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_ALDIYTHA_000_022At the end of those many long years, feeling that their sworn duty had at last been fulfilled, my ancestors returned rule to the Ul Dynasty. To this day, we of House Thorne continue to do our part to see Ul'dah flourish.
2824TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_ALDIYTHA_000_025In the years following the incident with the miller girl, Princess Edvya grew to become a fine lady, attending royal soirées and the like on occasion─just as expected of her. In spite of this, she remained true to herself, forthright and bold as ever.
2925TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_ALDIYTHA_000_026On one fateful evening, she took her folding fan─an accessory noblewomen used in those days for the express purpose of covering their faces as a form of etiquette─and instead flourished it about her, using it to perform a dance she had improvised on the spot.
3026TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_ALDIYTHA_000_027While the sultan and his retinue of seneschals were stunned by her impromptu performance, the nobles in attendance were instead captivated by its beauty, and applauded her when she finished.
3127TEXT_FESPDY2023ALDIYTHA_00810_ALDIYTHA_000_028In time, Princess Edvya's dance came to be known as the “Little Ladies' Dance,” and it, alongside the folding fan, have been passed down through the women of House Thorne ever since.