Loslote raises a very good question we probably should decide here together and not leave the issue to settle itself on the thread...
So where will lord Athanar's and lady Wynflaed's "residence" be? I actually thought about that yesterday for a short while as I realised that question had not been decided on.
I mean there sure had been a special room for lord Eodwine and Saeryn - probably one of the first built into the Mead Hall. Now if it is the sole "lordly room" there is - and one designed for two - it would be understandable that the new eorl and his wife would not sleep in any basic room while Saeryn occupied that luxury-residence alone... But if the new eorl forced Saeryn from the room that would be her only place of soothing memories, it could finally make her snap and pave way for a total revolt as others would stand up and fight for her...
It doesn't make the situation any easier that I have kind of decided that the natural passion and sympathy for other people isn't lord Athanar's strongest personality treat...
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But do you think the people of the Mead Hall had foreseen this situation? They probably had a week or two they knew the king would send them a new eorl - so would they have built new rooms for the new eorl so that Saeryn could keep hers?
Btw. I have been planning of trying to draw some general pictures (maplike ones, not any artworks) of the Mead Hall so that everyone would have it easier to orientate oneself in the surroundings - and our characters would inhabit more or less the same infrastructures thus avoiding any discrepancies or outright contradictions in our narrations of things.
So if you have any strong ideas as to where something should be or how some things should have been arranged spatially please let me know. There are the two rudimantary pictures by
lmp in the beginning of this discussion thread we should use as thumbnails or reference points...
* He may be polite and he may be just - well he is - but he really doesn't get all this "emotion-talk". Maybe because he's not so emotional himself, or he doesn't admit it to himself and thus closes the idea of emotionality from everything... (heh, bad psychology but it must suffice for now)