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"Later in life Lady Omo'mi commissioned a portrait of herself and her only surviving son, Lord Te'h, Prince of the Mountain Region. Because he was officially …

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"Later in life Lady Omo'mi commissioned a portrait of herself and her only surviving son, Lord Te'h, Prince of the Mountain Region. Because he was officially next in the line of succession, Te'h insisted on being painted holding the royal scepter and wearing a kingly crown.  His mother refused and they had a fight. Angered at his mother's refusal he left the king's court and returned to his fiefdom, remaining there for several months.

Omo'mi had the portrait made anyway, insisting that the artist "paint in" a likeness of her son. Soon after her death Lord Te'h had the painting destroyed and the artist imprisoned. Years later, after Te'h's death, I made this picture from memory..."
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