Queen Bimbo
by DomA

 

209 AB was a momenteous year. In the city of Shaemal in Coremanda, the representatives of the White Tower and the ten nations of the westlands were about to sign the first political alliance since the days of the Age of Legends, the result of long and arduous years of delicate negotiations.

On the last day before the signing of the Second Covenant, a great banquet was given in the grand hall of the Shaemalin palace. Before dinner was served, King Coerid Nosar of the neighboring and rival nation of Almoren proudly presented to the assembly of rulers, Aes Sedai and nobles the newly chosen mascot and emblem of Almoren: the somewhat less than majestic Golden Goose. Careful not to hurt King Coerid's considerable pride, the guests politely stifled their urge to giggle as the goose paraded around.

Queen Bimbo, the consort of King Ladoman of Coremanda, murmured to her husband, “Oh, poddle, you’re gonna be so proud of my wonderful surprise to honor the Almorenin”. Her husband looked at her most worryingly; Queen Bimbo was as beautiful as she was dumb – and she was of considerable beauty. She was so incontrollolable in fact that the Amyrlin, worried she could make a blunder, had wisely insisted she be kept as far away as possible from the negotiators. Ladoman had complied, distracting his wife by putting her in charge of the festivities, promising Mabriam the kitchen staff would keep an eye on the regal ninny.

As the servants brought the food in the grand hall, King silently cursed his imbecile wife. In place of the planned lionfish's steaks, a roasted goose on a plate of fine Sea Folk porcelain was presented to the Queen and King of Almoren. “I cooked it myself”, beamed Queen Bimbo, “isn’t it lovingly golden?”. She giggled contentedly, but the Queen of Almoren Sniffa sniffed malevolently at Bimbo and left the great hall, her husband and the entire delegation in tow.

The furious Almorenin delegation left in the night with Queen Sniffa's beloved pet Golden Goose, in a basket covered in dark silk with thin stripes of green, red and white, the length of which indicated the bird was very loved indeed and even stood above most of the Almorenin nobility in al'Cair'rahienallen.

The hard-won treaty of the Second Covenant was now doomed.

As soon as she heard of the hasty departure, the Amyrlin Mabriam en Sheered insisted to go after them, leaving behind all her escort. Riding hard, she caught Kind Coerid and Queen Sniffa in the town of Hai Caemlyn. . For the rest of the night Mabriam used all her talent of Gray negotiator to convince King Coerid to come back and sign the Covenant. As dawn came and the sun rose over the flyspeck village with no name on the hills a few miles east, Mabriam was at her wits’ when the vista inspired her. “Look eastward your Majesty, don’t you agree that the rising sun would make a far grander symbol for the majestic Hills of the Golden Dawn than a mere... goose?”.

Before the day was over, Mabriam had commissioned the services of the local goldsmith to make a wonderful sun crown she offered King Coerid. His considerable pride healed, King Coerid returned in triumph to Shaemal with his new Sun Crown, the offending goose left behind despite Queen Sniffa's disapproving sniff. In Shaemal, Queen Bimbo safely tied-up and gagged in a pantry, all the guests pretended nothing had happened. The Covenant of the ten Nations was born.

To leave a lasting monument to her success, Mabriam en Sheered asked some drunk Ogier at the banquet to build a magnificient palace and turn the small town of Hai Caemlyn into a magnificient city. “Hai where?” asked the Ogier masons. “Just just go east until you reach the town with the goose.”

But before the Ogier got there, the proud and sly inhabitants of Hai Caemlyn had learned of their Queen Bimbo’s blunder and sent the offending bird in its basket to the hillbillies of the flyspeck village with no name on the hills. And so it's there the confused Ogier masons found the golden goose and began to build the grand city. The jealous inhabitants of Hai Caemlyn eventualy all moved there and insisted to anyone who asked that the new city was Hai Caemlyn all along. Their own abandoned town dwindled and became a flyspeck village with no name. As the Wheel turned and history became legend, all that remained of the original town of Hai Caemlyn was an old inn with a curious name.

As so we’re stopping this week at this flyspeck village which, if it wasn’t for Queen Bimbo and a goose in a basket, could have been the Andoran capital today.

 

 

The further adventures of Queen Bimbo (and her daughter) ...
by  Shishka - 1/11/2008 2:02:37 PM

 

After the Compact of the Ten Nations was formed, King Ladoman resumed governing Coremanda from his palace in Shaemal, Queen Bimbo at his side. The Queen was (thankfully) no longer permitted to speak in public, but she was permitted (in fact, eagerly encouraged) to fulfill the much more important duties of a Consort, which she managed to accomplish quite well, providing the King with two sons, and finally, much later, a daughter. They named the daughter "Elfreda", but because of her similarities to the Queen (both physical and, unfortunately, mental), she became known throughout the land as Princess Bimbo.

The Princess spent her adolescence much as you might expect (that is, using her Creator-given assets to full advantage), and ultimately was courted by Sir Richard of Fara'shacanow, a minor noble from just east of the Mountains of Mist in northern Manetheren, and distant cousin of Queen Sorelle ay Marena.

King Ladoman, relieved at the prospect of getting the Princess away from all the local nobles' sons (one bimbo in the palace was bad enough, but two quickly became intolerable), gave his blessing to Sir Richard's proposal of marriage (rumor has it that he offered Sir Richard a sizeable dowry, rivaling some of the smaller nations' GNPs, to help ... motivate ... Sir Richard to make the proposal in the first place), and the two newlyweds were off to Sir Richard's estates, where they lived quite well off the income generated by the local mining done in the surrounding lands.

120 generations later ... the wife of a direct descendent of Princess "Bimbo" Elfreda and her husband Sir Richard (of the line "Farshaw", as it came to be known) gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. She named the girl "Elmindreda", and when "Min" (as she came to be known) reached adolescence it became quite clear that she would continue on the tradition of bimbo females begun 3000 years ago by her Great (repeated 118 times) Grandmother - Queen Bimbo.

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