Lucanis Dellamorte - Official Companion Thread [Spoilers]

No need to personally attack me and my Rook 

Your coffee should be dark and bitter, and make you dark and bitter first thing in the morning.
That's the only true way to drink coffee.

Fascinating fact, in some parts of the world they definitely don't put milk and sugar in their coffee.   Think traditional Turkish coffee and onwards along the Silk Road.   Years ago I was in Soviet Central Asia (now Uzbekistan) and we ordered coffee. It came black and so strong you could practically stand you spoon up in it.  It was a bit much so after that we stuck to tea (also without milk or sugar but not quite as overpowering).    It was a part of the old Soviet Union that was originally Muslim so there were no pubs or bars, only tea houses out in the country.     The only alcoholic beverages were in the foreign currency bars of the hotels.   This was the case even in the Russian/European part of the Union because at that time they were going through a prohibition period where they tried to stop the locals drinking alcohol as they had a bit of a alcoholics problem.   Of course, it didn't work because the poorer citizens just brewed their own illicit bootleg liquor at home (which was stronger and often deadly), whilst the richer ones frequented the foreign currency bars.   

Which makes me wonder, and I may have asked this before, but do you think Lucanis steers clear of alcohol because he wants to keep a clear head

(or both)?  

They say you can hang out and drink coffee with him in Treviso. That would suggest a bit of casual down time, so possible to have a small drink if he wished. Antiva makes very good wine. It is famous for it. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the main thing that Josephine's family traded in to Orlais. So, the fact he only seems to drink coffee even when relaxing in Treviso makes me think that perhaps he avoids alcohol. Unless, of course, the Antaam have banned the sale of alcohol in the city.

Talk of Lucanis' beard being a late development addition.

As I've previously said, some guys do grow beards deliberately to look older.   However, we know this was a late addition with him because he actually jokes with Illario that if his face becomes too well known, he will grow a beard.   That would have been 5-6 years previously.   So, at that time it would seem, around age 30, he looked like he does without the beard.   May be it was helpful because he looked too young and innocent to be a deadly killer. 

Some families also look young for their age.   All the members of my immediate family did.   This allowed us to maintain the illusion of being younger than we are, until the grey hairs kick in.  However, it was less helpful during my twenties when people still assumed I was in my mid teens, including a policeman who asked me if I was old enough to drive my car.   Mind you, I did enjoy his embarrassment when he discovered I was.  That was priceless.  

About the romances generally:

Now about Lucanis and a couple of bits of information that I picked up from one review concerning his condition: