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>>18355605
>Pygmy is lower Lotus Lake's queen then?
She's the upper queen, Lotus is the queen of the submerged regions. It's a pretty nice touch: Lotus Lake has upper and lower kingdoms like Egypt, except in this case it's literal instead of reflecting parts of the river. They had been joking about making Lotus Lake an Egypt-based nation for a long time, but I never made the connection until I realized what the "two queens" thing meant.

And yeah, too bad we already had Waterlily and Blue Lotus by then, because I'd have expected them to use the plants representing the two kingdoms (Egyptian waterlily and papyrus sedge) as queens. I'm always hopeful for a sedge of some sort being made into a knight, since Lotus Lake has a strong focus on water plants - the flower meaning of Asian flatsedge, a close relative of papyrus, is "history" and "tradition", so she would be a glasses-wearing, Yomiko-ish librarian, right? Right?

Papyrus' own meaning is just "honesty" and "a love letter", though.