The Queen's Head Cook
The Queen’s Head Cook guards her recipes and papers as jealously as her boss and sovereign guards the fairy royal powers! The Head Cook sets the daily menu and those working under her have to cook in the pre-determined way - that is what she thinks is right. In fairness, the meals prepared are delicious and the Head Cook generally is right but don’t look for invention and originality here. It has only been the Queen’s insistence that cuisine from other worlds makes a regular appearance that anything new comes on to the menu at all. Some of these new dishes go down welll (lasagne, pizza, casseroles), others do not (the idea of toad in the hole has totally been misunderstood here! They look for the toads and believe humans are mis-selling the dish because there aren’t any toads in it). The one thing the Head Cook is proud of is the way the kitchen works as a well oiled team, nobody goes hungry and the kitchens are kept meticulously clean.
Roherum
Roherum is also a writer, producing material for the papers. He also writes all his interviews up, gets them published in book form and archives them at the FNN studios. He also keeps his own copies. He sees doing this as keeping accurate historical records to accompany the films he made. Naturally Roherum writes things up from his viewpoint and as a result his works can be unintentionally funny. Roherum insists his books for FNN will not be published in his lifetime mainly because he wants to make sure he does not upset the Queen. The weatherman claims the goblin wants to make sure nobody could query his version of events. Naturally both points are true. Roherum is also determined not to have his books reviewed while he’s still alive to take the brickbats he expects to be hurled at him. He thinks it’s because he defends the common magical being. He won’t acknowledge there are times he can be a right idiot and far too full of himself.
Travellers
Travellers (unless obviously of an evil disposition - and everyone in the Kingdom thinks they can tell) are usually made welcome. The Kingdom is well aware of the Christian story on Earth and want to make sure they don’t turn anyone away they should be in awe of. Sadly this does not apply to members of other magical worlds as the Kingdom has fought the lot in its history (though often the fairy world has been the defender). It is felt friendly magical beings would make it clear they had a good disposition nor would they try to rob the realm of its magical plants and creatures (never considered an act of good will). Gwendolyn was the Kingdom’s most experienced traveller but given the havoc this caused because of the things/people she brought back with her and tried to impose on her own people, it is felt the majority of the Kingdom should be jolly well content to stay at home. Only those on active service for the Queen should be sent anywhere.
The Chief Wizard
The Chief Wizard has a set of work rooms in the Palace which has to be available for inspection at any time by the Queen and her Council. This requirement is recent and was brought in after Brankaresh’s treachery. The work rooms are in the lower two tiers of the Palace, well away from the middle tier which is where the business of government is carried out. The Queen takes the view if a spell is going to go wrong, it can do so well away from her! There are protection spells on her rooms, the State Dining Room and the Council members’ offices so even if a Chief Wizard does do something disastrous these rooms are likely to be able to salvaged even if the rest of the Palace falls down.
The Queen’s Head Cook guards her recipes and papers as jealously as her boss and sovereign guards the fairy royal powers! The Head Cook sets the daily menu and those working under her have to cook in the pre-determined way - that is what she thinks is right. In fairness, the meals prepared are delicious and the Head Cook generally is right but don’t look for invention and originality here. It has only been the Queen’s insistence that cuisine from other worlds makes a regular appearance that anything new comes on to the menu at all. Some of these new dishes go down welll (lasagne, pizza, casseroles), others do not (the idea of toad in the hole has totally been misunderstood here! They look for the toads and believe humans are mis-selling the dish because there aren’t any toads in it). The one thing the Head Cook is proud of is the way the kitchen works as a well oiled team, nobody goes hungry and the kitchens are kept meticulously clean.
Roherum
Roherum is also a writer, producing material for the papers. He also writes all his interviews up, gets them published in book form and archives them at the FNN studios. He also keeps his own copies. He sees doing this as keeping accurate historical records to accompany the films he made. Naturally Roherum writes things up from his viewpoint and as a result his works can be unintentionally funny. Roherum insists his books for FNN will not be published in his lifetime mainly because he wants to make sure he does not upset the Queen. The weatherman claims the goblin wants to make sure nobody could query his version of events. Naturally both points are true. Roherum is also determined not to have his books reviewed while he’s still alive to take the brickbats he expects to be hurled at him. He thinks it’s because he defends the common magical being. He won’t acknowledge there are times he can be a right idiot and far too full of himself.
Travellers
Travellers (unless obviously of an evil disposition - and everyone in the Kingdom thinks they can tell) are usually made welcome. The Kingdom is well aware of the Christian story on Earth and want to make sure they don’t turn anyone away they should be in awe of. Sadly this does not apply to members of other magical worlds as the Kingdom has fought the lot in its history (though often the fairy world has been the defender). It is felt friendly magical beings would make it clear they had a good disposition nor would they try to rob the realm of its magical plants and creatures (never considered an act of good will). Gwendolyn was the Kingdom’s most experienced traveller but given the havoc this caused because of the things/people she brought back with her and tried to impose on her own people, it is felt the majority of the Kingdom should be jolly well content to stay at home. Only those on active service for the Queen should be sent anywhere.
The Chief Wizard
The Chief Wizard has a set of work rooms in the Palace which has to be available for inspection at any time by the Queen and her Council. This requirement is recent and was brought in after Brankaresh’s treachery. The work rooms are in the lower two tiers of the Palace, well away from the middle tier which is where the business of government is carried out. The Queen takes the view if a spell is going to go wrong, it can do so well away from her! There are protection spells on her rooms, the State Dining Room and the Council members’ offices so even if a Chief Wizard does do something disastrous these rooms are likely to be able to salvaged even if the rest of the Palace falls down.
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