Esmae Baratheon was the golden darling of the Seven Kingdoms, or so the measly common folk liked to call the firstborn child of the glorious king Robert Baratheon and Queen Cersei. The princess, however, was anything but a darling and despised the r...
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Esmae Baratheon didn't believe in honorable loyalty nor did she believe in the power of fear. She trusted in debts, money and the power of the Seven, who were the only ones able to save those foolish enough to have crossed her. Esmae did not have whores to command and little birds eating out of her hand. No, the princess had people who owed her and that was worth far more than the gift of protection or the tremble of fear. Everyone could be turned against anyone with the right price, be that their life or something more valuable — Esmae had quite the knack for determining that with enviable ease.
She prided herself on knowing all the secrets of the Keep. Unknown inspired fear, and fear meant helplessness, and for many things Esmae Baratheon was, helpless was not one of them. Neither was she fearless, however, for fear also meant awareness, which was paramount if one wanted to stay alive in the capital.
Better be paranoid than dead, she reasoned.
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