#making tiny dresses leads to much stabbing of oneself in the finger tips with tiny sharp needles

[susanbslamthony]

Tortall Headcanon

When Alanna finds the doll of Queen Lianne, it is wearing a “duplicate of the Queen’s favorite gown.” We know the use of miniatures in magic is common enough that everyone is angered, horrified and otherwise recoiling in fear the second Alanna shows the court the miniatures. Which means that Roger would have needed to do the work to create them entirely in secret. Sculpting the figure out of wax would be easy enough, as would hypnotizing a guard or a maid to give him the hair from the Queen’s hairbrush. But the dress? No way someone would have quietly made that for him. And we know that a Queen’s dress can take days for a skilled seamstress to complete. And making a tiny version of something is absolutely painstaking and usually incredibly difficult because everything is so damn small. 

Which means that Grand Duke Roger of Conte, most powerful mage in the realm, spent hours fussing over a tiny doll dress. Probably while Alex watched.

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