One thing I've discovered in the last year is that the envoys are where it's at in this fandom.
Most def, as the kids say in The Wire. They all provide insightful and invaluable nuggests of information and characterisation. Even the odd ones out, like Charles William, mentor of young Poniatowski and enabler of his affair with Catherine, and mutual loather on sight with Fritz during his brief Berlin stint come across vividly.
But if we ever do "walked into a bar" type of fiction, then Mitchell, Valory, at least one of the Saxon envoys (Suhm and Manteuffel would both have different things to contribute, and I'm not discounting the Saxon envoy who finally delivered the smoking gun on Fredersdorf and Gigorijj the handsome husar), Dickens, the Danes (either one) or Poniatowski himself (also, among other things, a Saxon envoy, to the court of St. Petersburg) would get a lively conversation going. And of course... *drumroll*....Seckendorf (Imperial envoy).
Re: With You, There's a Heaven - Suhm
Most def, as the kids say in The Wire. They all provide insightful and invaluable nuggests of information and characterisation. Even the odd ones out, like Charles William, mentor of young Poniatowski and enabler of his affair with Catherine, and mutual loather on sight with Fritz during his brief Berlin stint come across vividly.
But if we ever do "walked into a bar" type of fiction, then Mitchell, Valory, at least one of the Saxon envoys (Suhm and Manteuffel would both have different things to contribute, and I'm not discounting the Saxon envoy who finally delivered the smoking gun on Fredersdorf and Gigorijj the handsome husar), Dickens, the Danes (either one) or Poniatowski himself (also, among other things, a Saxon envoy, to the court of St. Petersburg) would get a lively conversation going. And of course... *drumroll*....Seckendorf (Imperial envoy).