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The Lucubratious

This title was earned by Rothgar thanks to the innkeeper of the inn where he and Vaxin spent the first night of their honeymoon. Upon entering the room the next day and attempting to clean the room and seeing (amoung other things) the stains on the ceiling she became utterly perplexed.

What exactly could they have been doing to stain the ceiling? She pondered this endlessly and even brought in experts of all kinds to try and solve the puzzle: diviners, prostitutes, and Elemenstors (who are just generally assumed to be experts on everything). All tried to figure it out but each left as puzzled as innkeeper.

Then one day a Title Bestower with an unusually extensive vocabulary noticed this phenomenon and used the word "lucubratious." The idea that the stains were in fact produced through laborious and somewhat pretentious effort (i.e. lucubration) seemed a reasonably descriptive and potentially accurate guess, especially considering Vaxin's well-known... coital extremism.

However, not knowing what "Lucubratious" meant (and thinking it sounded somewhat naughty) most people just assumed it was another new title for Rothgar. Even up until The Ending Times one definition of "Lucubratious" retained in Battal's dictionaries was "Laboring to or possesing a nature such as to produce impossibly freaky stains on the ceiling."

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