All of Madam U’s items are ABOVE BOARD well as above board and legal as anything can be when you’re a member of a secret underground class of peoples not recognized by any mundane government but ABOVE BOARD.
All of Madam U’s items are ABOVE BOARD well as above board and legal as anything can be when you’re a member of a secret underground class of peoples not recognized by any mundane government but ABOVE BOARD.
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It belongs in a museum!
Private museum, or public?
Are there any heraldic creatures like Yale or Enfield?
RQ for Tobias:
Have you been watching the new series of Doctor Who and what did you think about it?
Series 1 was late March 2005 – mid June 2005, with Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose Tyler. So it will be just finishing at the same time as Illumination takes place.
Obviously, Madame U deals in ancient relics.
If unicorns are extinct, a horn that turns up would be a relic of a bygone age.
-Badger-
Of course she does! She sells medallions!
I’m re-reading Illuminations and have all sorts of questions about the tattoos — How do tattoos even work when their human forms are just Illusions? When Royce adds the tattoo to their illusion, does he actually poke people with needles or somehow magically tweak their presentations? Do the colors carry through their fur in true form? And if the tattoo is part of the illusion, could it be erased or redrawn?
Are there any “Fae” creatures in the Skin Deep verse? like elves and brownies?
Yeah I mean I was guessing it’s like buying antique ivory.
Only with more magic.
Unless antique ivory is magic and I just didn’t know it.
A long-long time ago, it was mentioned in an RQ that Jellicle Cats had medallions. I’m wondering what makes them magical, other than the fact that they have medallions?
Wait does Mme U pay taxes? Do any of the Avalon only shops pay taxes? Is there someone who represents them above board to they can order things without laundering money? With laundering money?
Do they have friends in the IRS? Should they be fearing the IRS?
Maybe that’s the reason the magical community is a secret. They don’t want to admit that they haven’t been paying their taxes.
If this Avalon is located in Britain, they don’t have to fear the IRS. The IRS (Internal Revenue Service) is a U.S. agency. British taxes are collected by HMRC. (Her/His Majesty’s Revenue & Customs.)
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-revenue-customs
but what is unicorn horn used for?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_horn (see Medicinal properties)
https://www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/news-and-analysis/features/the-use-of-unicorn-horn-in-medicine/20013625.article
Just because something is extinct, doesn’t mean remains can’t still be around. Take the dodo bird for example: all that we have left is a head and a foot, but Oxford Museum still has those remains for the last 300 years. I’m curious if there’s any DNA left and whether we could clone it (I’m not sure about if we should).