Some characters in a book I'm writing are an exiled noble

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>>9867634
OK

>>9867311
A room in a farm house?
If accuracy indeed doesn't matter, can put them in a work house or a boarding/lodging house.
Either way, they're situations where they'd be living with a lot of other (poor) people.

>>9867656
They still have a fair amount of money, mostly in the form of jewels and gold that they can sell for common silver coinage. We're talking a retinue of maybe ten people, four or five of which are nobles, the rest trusted retainers.

I suppose they can rent a house, but I'm having trouble imagining that as a short term deal.

Fictional rental agreements are not exactly going to be under close scrutiny by the reader, but I want to get a practical sense of what they are going through, even if it doesn't end up in the novel in any explicit way.

>>9867666
Do you want it to be comical or 'realistic'?
How aloof are they?
Would they rent a room in a house?
Would they move into a rented ballroom?
An active factory space?
A warehouse? etc.

>>9867672
Pretty realistic. I suppose they could rent a floor of a building, I'm just trying to imagine what a pre-modern townhouse or apartment building looks like, and what kind of arrangements were made.

FEMA style emergency accommodation really isn't in the cards. They are rich, just uncommitted and willing to move on at the drop of a hat.

>>9867890
I still have no idea what you're going for.
Just that they're rich, won't rent an apartment or hotel, they're aloof and it's for a year.
Is it a comedy?
How aloof are they?
Why just a year?
If they don't want to move, why don't they build a shack out of memorabilia?
It's hardly enough detail to begin giving suggestions when the reasons keep changing or aren't explained.

they move uninvited into the immaculate, spacious, but austere house of a distant family associate who's a merchant away on business and rearrange and decorate the house based on their whims

>>9867914
I'm going for a normal economic transaction that allows them to be fairly isolated. Isolation is what they are used to and comfortable with.

It's just that there wasn't much choice between a flea-bitten roadhouse and a long term lease in this kind of setting, historically, and even today it's a nuisance to let for less than a year. The gap was usually filled by being hosted by a friend, but they don't have that option.

No comedy.

Aloofness: they like to keep to themselves and talk with locals in a formal way without much chitchat. There is suspicion and gossip about them.

Just a year due to waiting for certain events to play out. Till then it's playing cards and pacing the halls.

>>9867922
I suppose something like this could work - the family owning vacant or semi-derelict property in the town.