I just caught back up to the quest and it's really been a wild ride!
Putting in my two cents for the whole thing of the identity of Ranald's and Shallya's mysterious twin daughters and being contrarian purely for the sake of being contrarian, if they
aren't Elvish deities... I think
Lucan and Luccina, the eponymous twin gods said to have founded the Ancient Principality of Luccini, have a lot to say for them. They're obscure and somewhat minor gods basically unheard-of outside Luccini or Luccini-descended communities, a strange little detour from the usual Classical Pantheon of Ranald and Shallya that nevertheless holds the eldest(tm) and noblest(tm) and most powerful(tm) city in Tilea in the palm of their hands. Plus their origin story is the two coming about in the strange pastoral prehistory back when Tilea was Tylos and the Tileans were illiterate goatherders afraid to venture too far down into the fey and haunted Elvish ruins, with Lucan and Luccina being the first(tm) to discover and found Luccini next to an ancient Elvish colony as a glorious new home for their mountain tribes... which is all basically a direct ripoff of Romulus and Remas, with Luccini taking the place of Rome and with a double-headed magic/sacred she-leopard taking the place of the Capitoline Wolf nursing the Roman twins. So Lucan and Luccini very much have a whole liminal Ranaldian thing of crossing boundaries as at once both wild children of the leopard with like Roman Lupercalia stuff, and a more Shallyan civic duty thing with being the culture heroes and ancestral progenitors of all Luccinesi and through their temple at the cave of the she-leopard protecting and guiding the city through calamity and loss with ocular visions and prophecies, wielding Ranaldian luck and grandpa Morr's dream to Shallyan purpose. (Just in general real like Apollo and Artemis energy with like Apollo's oracle at Delphi as the she-leopard's cave and the weird pastoral magic over health and fortune in Classical Greek religion) And it makes sense for Lucan and Luccini to be tied to Ranald's and Myrmida's family in some way too, because otherwise it gets to an almost ridiculous amount of separate and unrelated instances of gods living as mortal for a time and/or transforming between mortal and immortal.
And then the Luccinesi themselves have a widespread reputation across Tilean of being a bunch of madcap bastards; being most the most august and inbred and defiantly noble of all the Tilean cities while also being just a bunch of freaking lunatics infamous for valuing crass humor and good taste in wine over anything else. How this happens is that the throne of the Principality is constantly disputed and warred over by royal clans claiming blood-descent from either King Lucan or Queen Luccina and the constant tumult of dramatic vendettas and tragic star-crossed inbreeding leaves everyone not quite sure which side is which anymore. Consequently the reigns of each Prince and Princess has a slightly hysterical carnival air as only frantic appeasement of the court and the masses with generous art and music and theatre and most especially comedy keeps them alive 'til next year- to the point that the earthshattering political transformation Tilean age of revolutions and elected merchant princes just completely passed Luccini by as any dissatisfied citizens had only to wait another six months as sooner or later a tragic pie throwing accident would begin a fresh start with the rein of a whole new Prince. And this is all while at the same time Luccini continues to throw themselves into being perhaps
the most arrogant Tileans, constantly boasting of being direct kin to the Gods, the most fortunate and favored by fate of all Tileans, eldest and most powerful daughter of Tylos and queen of all cities and, etc.., etc...
The whole place has very powerful vibes of like Paris in Disney's
Hunchback of Notre Dame, with the Feast of Fools playing out in the streets next to the great gothic monument of Notre Dame and with the Court of Miracles in the shadows and the ordinary Parisians struggling to rise above their prejudices and darker impulses. Plus, it's right next to Sartosa and has a long long intertwined history with it and the legends of the Jack O' The Sea has Ranald playing an especially close eye to what would become the pirate republic in his tricks and dealings.
The only real hiccup is of course that Ranald has twin daughters, and Lucan is a dude. That one I really don't have an answer for except that for daughters of four-faced Ranald and knockoffs of ancient Greek deities, gender is a fad you shapeshift in and out of, and maybe the daughters enjoy playing a spin off that whole "one of us is always lying while the other is always telling the truth" gimmick by switching around who is playing the roles of "Lucan" and "Luccina"?
