Siobhan Fyres married!

(Year 225) The well known Ms Siobhan Fyres (42), aka Joanna, got married this Winter to Dr. Nivert Hump (52). The ceremony took place at the Council House, and only a restricted group of close relatives and friends were invited to the following reception and dinner. Siobhan has been working as a Council House Secretary for Region 12 since many years and has therefor been featured on the As Sims Go By video series nearly from the start.

She is the oldest daughter of the noble House of Fyres. Her parents are Lord Dominic of Deadgrass, Lord von Dresden and Haunt, and Moira R. Fyres, Lady of Dresden. Her younger sister recently married to Baron Verde, obtaining the highest nobility rank ever reached by any member of House of Fyres. She also has two younger siblings, including a brother who is the house's main heir.

Christmas tale video: Super Power Dad

My seasonal video is out! «Super Power Dad» is a bittersweet Christmas tale, with a mix of happy traditions and sadness - and drama. Only 7 minutes, and 100% stand alone. Hope you like :)

Merry Christmas!

 Hoping you are all doing well in these restricted times. I'll celebrate the season alone, and if you do too, remember it won't necessarily be bad although a tad different. There are so many small and big pleasures to focus on and make sure to make the season good. We don't really need all the normal fuss to celebrate Christmas, and scaling everything down a bit makes me realize that less can sometimes be more.

Christmas short video «Super Power Dad» in production... 

I'm not sure I will find time to play my favorite game over the next couple days.

House von Kaching announces Engagement!

(Year 225) The rumor was already spreading, and today House von Kaching finally confirmed that their only son and main heir to the Gloom barony, Lord Edward Be. von Kaching (44) and Lady Merielle de Cavalier (32) are engaged.

The happy couple are currently both staying at Moss Dorm at Gibbs Hill in Rossie/Britechester. This is a dorm especially suited for nobility, and also Lady Merielle's two brothers currently stay there. 

As Sims Go By - More Sneak Peeks (season 3)

(Year 225) The first episode is as good as done, and will be released in a week or so. Here are a few more peeks just because I keep filling my screenshots folder :)

Season 3 will be different as each episode is more like stand-alone videos, meaning there won't be needed info dropped in previous episode, like in the first 2 seasons. You can watch just one episiode and understand most of it :) The Dougham household at Crestville in Newcrest is the main household of the first episode. With fewer households involved and less "15 seconds scenes" there will be less confusion - hopefully. I also think it might be more interesting to get better acquainted with just one family at the time.

Switched at Birth

 (Year 225) If you followed my video series As sims Go By, you might recall that a certain event took place at Gloomville Hospital about 5 years ago. Because the upcoming third season of this series will focus on the story of fewer households, and this event will only be mentioned subtly, I figured it might be okay addressing it all here on the blog.

Simandus Silverbone has been returned to his biological parents in Brindleton Bay.

Spring of year 220 both Fanny Silverbone and Claudia Tangerin, Lady Shine gave birth to a son. Claudia had a ongoing thing with a lover, her husband's political rival, Edvin Phlum. Becauase she kind of blackmailed him, she feared the chance of her son getting his father's white eyes syndrome, which would of course have spoiled her lie completely. Making this complicated story short, Claudia switched the two baby boys before leaving the hospital. It harmed her marriage when Baldwin Tazar Tangerin grew up to toddler, unveiling his red hair and brown eyes - genetics that did not match with neither Claudia nor Victor.

Just two tech questions

I think the game is quite easy to learn, but occasionally something happens that I just don't get. Or there are different appearances that is not explained say by pointing at the item. So, I'll start with two question here.

In one household I put the plasma fruit harvest on a counter, to allow anyone in the house to grab a fruit or two as needed. They belong to my Modern Vampire clan, meaning they try not to feed from sims, but fruits and plasma packets.

Investiture: Baroness Morgan of Verde

(Year 225) First day of Winter is Investiture Day, and in Verde this year was busy! Morgan Fyres (32) married to Baron Auphor Sax-Donnersmalt of Verde (84) this Spring, and now it was time to formalize her Baroness title as well as for her to become a worthy member of the exclusive Verde District Order.

As she is not the Peer to this high nobility barony, but only married to the Peer, I would normally not see this as a major event. Investitures like this normally take place at home, handled by the Peer himself, and it only requires two witnesses, who can actually be servants of the house. But this time so much is new at Verde in Oasis Springs, so I wanted at least to have a formal investiture photo of the fresh Baroness Morgan.

High Nobility - Duke de Cavalier

(Current Year: 225) In this series I present the story of each of my High Nobility houses (see index after article), each representing one district (=world). Originally the current Region 12 had ten High Nobility peerages; 4 dukes, 5 barons and even 1 lord. Duke de Cavalier was the forth and last dukedom to be introduced by King Wizar I in Year 98. At this time the three dukes of Windenburg, Rossie and Meadows had been reigning for nearly a full century. The new dukedom was the smallest geographically, covering only the expanded land of Brindleton, today's Sable Square and Cavalier Cove. A high nobility lord was already answering to Whiskerman's Wharf and the Deadgrass Isle - and still is.

Dukedom de Cavalier is currently a well run peerage, with the region's most traditional castle including a highly awarded castle garden. Despite being only 127 years old, the house has an interesting story involving the myth of merfolk.

Coat of arms
Their shield (which is the only coat of arms element that I focus on) has changed three times, for each and every Peer. This is rather special, as a new peerage would be expected to at least keep its centered element which would help branding the peerage.

The original shield had a golden bone on purple background with two orange horizontal stripes. The bone was obviously a hint to dogs. Brindleton Bay had an extreme affection for cats, and dogs were introduced as the Sable Square hood was populated, around year 100. Purple is the main color, set by Duke Clauss Nicolai Ross (Lord of Rossie, he later changed his last name to de Cavalier), while orange might represent origin of the first Duchess (von Klasse).

Duke Leopold Demitris de Cavalier (Y142) replaced the orange stripes by turquoise stripes, probably reflecting his Duchess Mera's unconfirmed merfolk origin.

Today's shield is quite different as the golden bone was replaced by a golden flower (Y176). The background is still purple and turquoise. Duke Aquess Benedict de Cavalier never was clear on this change, and it might be a bit far fetched suggesting that it reflects his Duchess Claudine's love for the castle garden. There might have been some conflict between Aquess and his father, Leopold, but even such a conflict (small enough to escape the newspapers) would not be a legit reason to change a peerage's main symbol.