Odette, Alphonsine, and Eloise — the three daughters of Cataline and Guillaume de Fausseflammes. Smuggled out of a siege as children, sheltered by a foreign head of state, and carrying the only surviving claim against the house that rules Averoigne.
What We Know (all GM)
- Three daughters, named Odette, Alphonsine, and Eloise. (GM — the timeline said only “her daughters”; the count and names are the correction.)
- Winter 1735: they escaped the siege of Touraine, months before it fell. The escape was not discovered until after the fall.
- Summer 1736: Touraine falls, their mother kills herself, and they are revealed to be guests of the Doge in Cardacci — where they presumably still are.
- Their father was Knight Commander of the Order of the Swan, nephew to the late King Etienne de la Courcel, a claimant to the throne, and the only man on record to publicly accuse Michel d’Envers of the assassinations. See The Night in the Royal Castle.
- Their mother held Touraine in her own right, so the county is theirs by descent as well.
Why They Matter
They are living claimants to Averoigne with a blood link to the old royal line through their father, sitting in the capital of a neighbouring power. Rincon d’Envers rules a plague-struck, indebted kingdom with weak support. The Doge is holding a lever and everyone involved knows it.
They are also the most likely surviving holders of whatever their father actually knew about the night in the royal castle — the accusation he died making.
Speculation
Cataline spent her last year buying their escape rather than her own. Either she was preserving the claim, or she was preserving what they knew, or she was simply a mother — and the party has no way to tell which without meeting them.
Speculation
Ages are unstated. If they escaped in Winter 1735, the eldest may be of age by now (1739) and the youngest may not. A marriageable claimant to Averoigne under the Doge’s roof is exactly the sort of asset that ends up in somebody’s negotiation.
Relationships
- Cataline, Comtesse de Touraine — their mother.
- Guillaume de Fausseflammes — their father.
- The Doge of Cardacci — their host, and their leverage.