Knight and Knightess (RP)

Knight and Knightess is an ongoing roleplaying session between Stephánus Tavilrond and Nerida Talori. The full RP logs can be read in the articles RPG:Knight and Knightess 1 and RPG:Knight and Knightess 2 - they are in the English language.

Due to its nature as a crossover, it is obviously non-canon, albeit some elements of it were later canonized, such as the prevalence of High Elven Bathhouses in Etrand.

Plot
A group of warriors from Asui led by Nerida Talori - another world inhabited by humans, on another dimension - invade Etrand through a teleportation gate. However, Stephánus Tavilrond and a group of Knights of the Blood Red Light easily stop them, killing a few and incapaciating the rest. Nerida falls unconscious, and is imprisoned within Fort Redlight, where she is interrogated by Stephanus. Afterwards, each knight is assigned a prison to keep a watch over, with Stephanus being assigned to Nerida. Initially, Nerida is hostile to him and stirs up trouble, having to be dragged everywhere. Eventually, Stephanus takes her into the city of Grandfolk - but with her chained to him - and takes her to a bathhouse, where they concoct a plan: since Nerida wants her freedom back, as well as her status as a noblewoman - she will pretend to convert to Titanism and will enter a scam marriage with Stephanus, who is soon to be granted nobility status, as well as the right to buy a castle, with the abandoned, ruined, rusty and moldy Castle Tarjeng being rather cheap to buy and unwanted.

Still somewhat hostile to Stephanus - and quite angry at him after he forces her to wear the clothes she blooded with the blood of those comrades of hers that she aided in their suicides - the two eventually grow to love each other genuinely. By the time the wedding takes place, the two have grown to have genuine romantic feelings for each other. Nerida suggests to Stephanus, that to ease with the expenses, they should settle her former comrades around their castle, as many of her warriors were also professional carpenters and stonemasons. Stephanus agrees to the plan. To finance the restoration of Castle Tarjeng, Stephanus decides to borrow money from a Dwarven banker - at first, he cannot really comprehend the concept of credits, paper money and IOUs, but with the help of Nerida - who has some economical knowledge and acumen - he eventually starts to understand it. After having dealt with the bank, the two return to The Left Hand of Salashi for more relaxation and lovemaking.

Tropes

 * : Roleplaying first stopped on the 30th of May, 2017, then picked back up on the 21th of April, 2020.
 * : Arguably, the romance between Stephanus and Nerida begins in the bathhouse.
 * : Stephanus refers to the Dark Elves as "gypsies".
 * : Between the Ways of Darkness and Nerida's homeworld Asui.
 * : Stephánus Tavilrond ⨯ Nerida Talori
 * : Nerida has some issues comprehending Etrandish customs. Nerida's native culture puts a heavy emphasis on celibacy and stigmatizes carnal pleasures, while Stephanus's native culture is somewhat more sex-positive (albeit ) - on the other hand, in Nerida's culture, there are no weddings, and a couple is considered married if they have sex. She is quite confused by the extravagrant wedding that has to be thrown, and is both offended and confused when Stephanus refuses to sleep with her prior the wedding (a concept that was foreign to her before).
 * : Nerida, to an extent.
 * : Nerida first finds Etrandish bathhouses - where naked people of all sexes, ages, races and classes intermingle - rather "scandalous and sinful" in the beginning.
 * : Stephanus and Nerida were originally enemies.
 * : Artograchian attire wasn't defined yet, so Elven female attire was described as "byzantine", rather than what it is now.
 * : Stephanus was born a commoner, but earns nobility through service and merit, contrasting him with the Nerida.