Fondly imagining that glorious pre-Evandrin’s death, pre-Seelie marriage but post-Seelie engagement period of time when the overwhelming impression of the (not-yet-named-such) Ring of Brass was “okay, so how many of them are sleeping with each other?”
Because Evandrin and the Architect Arcane were in each other’s pockets long before Evandrin’s husband showed up, and they still keep sitting in each other’s laps at parties. And Coramar keeps threatening to become Coramar-Seelie but that wedding’s been in the planning stages for years, and in the meantime her fiancé continues to be an automatic flirt. And Laerryn and Patia are whispery wizard besties, Patia and Nydas do conspiracies together and give extravagant gifts, Nydas and Zerxus once had an arm wrestling match at a gala, and Loquatius does the most glowing features on any and all of them… Cerrit is left out of some of the earlier scandalous gossip until, on one of the few occasions his wife shows up for a formal event, people notice that she perfectly bridges the gap between his gruffness and the rest of his friend groups’ cavalier curiosity and pride.