#sejanus
So on my latest reread of KoA, I noticed on p. 77 when Eugenides is scaring the living piss out of the tax evading baron:
In the bed beside the baron there was a sleepy murmur, not his wife, thank the gods, his wife would have been awakened by the whispered conversation. His bedfellow stirred beside the baron and sat up.
Then later in chapter 9 (p. 187):
It was Legarus who had been the ostensible cause of their sudden promotion, an arrangement by some lover in the palace, everyone had assumed. Nepotism had only been a disguise […] His lover had used Legarus and left him to die.
Was Baron Artadorus Legarus’ lover??
(@fuckyeahqueensthief, because it was too long for an ask)
Considering Megan doesn’t use gender identifying pronouns and that must be deliberate, I’m convinced Legarus was the baron’s lover.
Furthermore, this Artadorus was clearly in contact with the Erondites family as Sejanus’s father was the one to suggest the tax fraud to begin with. The assassination was planned by Sejanus with the aid of Sounis and Nahuseresh. Artadorus appears to have assisted the plot by getting the neophyte guards promoted. He did think that Erondites had set him up by informing the king of his tax scheme, so it makes sense Artadorus would’ve gone against Erondites’s plan to control the king with a mistress and sided with Sejanus on the regicide plan. It all makes sense!
There’s also this line… “…leaning close enough that the baron could have taken him in his arms, had he been a lover instead of a murderer.” That’s pretty suggestive that he’s been with male lovers.
