It's been suggested that Valeria in the BotNS is based upon Valeria Mescalina, er, Messalina, who was the third wife of the Emperor Claudius. Going through a dictionary of classical mythology today, I was reading the entry on Valeria and discovered that Valeria, due to madness or just plain out of spite to her husband, often worked in a brothel. We have a brothel in the BotNS, not too far from Valeria's house, so is it possible she has a tie to the House Azure?
Christopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com>
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