[list][*]Gutta is not from Thaln, as established in the pedantry a few pages back with not-German and not-French nomenclature.[*]He's not illiterate, but reading clearly isn't one of his hobbies; as established in my bio.[*]The event he's supposed to know all the faces from (not to mention that one of them is undead and still walking around, because that's a thing to reasonably expect in everyday life) happened over two hundred years ago.[list][*]No, not her name; her face. She hasn't told him his name. She's just stepped up to him to interrupt his conversation with her sick Dr. Manhattan impression.[/list][*]According to Merilia's app she went "exploring" after the knights' foundation.[*]According to [i]my[/i] app and character posts, my character has not been in the knights for 200 years; closer to a few months short of [i]one[/i].[/list]

So going back to the Declaration of Independence example, you're not really asking an American who John Hancock was. You're asking a German peasant who doesn't read who Thomas Heyward, Jr. was.

I remind you that Hancock, Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson, the most famous of the Declaration signers, went on to do other immediate things in the public eye: presidency, invention, humorist writing and publishing, and so on. People all across the country are much less likely to remember [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Heyward_Jr.]a judge[/url]; or in this case, an "explorer."

It sounds to me like she's been resting on her laurels for 200 years and expects everyone to still fawn at her feet for the one significant thing she did over two centuries ago, but what do I know? She has a [i]portrait[/i] downstairs, a novelty literally anyone with enough money can commission from an artist! :toot

Right, so it's pretty reasonable IMO not to know that she exists. She's the Heyward to Elionne Carthet's Hancock, you could say.

Though if she has written a kickass memoir about her "exploration," let me know. That'd be a real game-changer.