The court & contested claims

Peregrine Mallardmoor

Duke of Unverified Lineage

The evidence failed. The duck remained.

Peregrine arrived with a damaged certificate, half a golden eggshell and a claim to Belladonna’s succession. Honorius had cultivated his longing for family into a political weapon. At the tribunal, Peregrine exposed the conspiracy. Aurelius granted him the office of Duke of Unverified Lineage and Emergency Bread Affairs. His royal parentage is unresolved: neither the register nor a handsome cape can prove it. His place in the story no longer depends on winning the crown.

A dotted claim is not a bloodline. Please stop embroidering it onto banners.

Compare the staged portraits at the same life stage, not the same calendar date. Vesper has one contemporary portrait. Dates and ages are fictional calendar seasons, not published story seasons.

Hatched

Sun Crown 50

Current age

37 seasons