REALMS & CHARACTERS

MONARCHIES

Ceredigion: Severn (House of Argentine): usurped throne from his brother’s sons who are missing and presumed murdered. He is forty years old and has reigned over his troubled kingdom for over a decade.

Occitania: Chatriyon VIII (House of Vertus): succeeded his father at age thirteen and ruled under the regency of his older sister until age twenty-one. Upon assuming total control of the throne, he began interfering with the sovereign rights of his cousin, the Duchess of Brythonica, with the intention of forcing her into a marriage alliance with him.

Atabyrion: Iago IV (House of Llewellyn): known for personal courage and bravery. His father (Iago III) was an ineffective king and plagued by the revolts of his own earls and a history of conflict with Ceredigion, the last being in the final year of Eredur’s reign, in which Eredur’s brother (Severn) and Duke Horwath defeated the Atabyrions in a decisive battle. During a subsequent rebellion, Iago III was killed and Iago IV became king at age fifteen. He is now nineteen and still unmarried.

LORDS OF CEREDIGION

Owen Kiskaddon: Duke of Westmarch Stiev Horwath: Duke of North Cumbria Jack Paulen: Duke of East Stowe Thomas Lovel: Duke of Southport Dominic Mancini: master of the Espion, the king’s spy service