Norman

"Hrm," says old Lord Adrian. "That is no good!"

The thick and odious stench of injustice clung to the missive when it arrived at the old count's doorstep, carried to him on the dusky black wings of a carrion bird. When he picked it up and scanned over its contents, an ire boiled up inside him more deep-seated and more malignant than the blackest of all tumors. He snapped shut his fist around the sheet of paper, a single word slipping from his lips like flame from the tongue of a dragon.

Walking... Walking... Walking... Stops Raises a brow as I hear the chaos from inside the church Shrugs and keeps walking

WRIT OF BASTARDISATION AND DISOWNMENT As Issued by Adrian de Bar upon the 4th of The Sun’s Smile, 1531 The patriarch of the noble and esteemed House Ashford de Bar, venerated by Orenian law as nobiles antiqui, His Excellency Adrian of Ashford de Bar, the first of his name, Count of Drusco and Lord Great Viceroy of the Holy Orenian Empire, declares and decrees that from the 4th of The Sun’s Smile, 1531, the late Baldwin of Ashford de Bar is from this day forth posthumously bastardised and disowned from the House of Ashford de Bar. Furthermore, any who claim descent from Baldwin de Bar are hereby disowned and any pedigree or design as a scion of Ashford discontinued. This damnation and subsequent bastardisation of blood stems from the crimes of regicide and kinslaying. These deplorable acts are ones that no family, let alone one which claims descent from the Saintly Lucien I, The Good, can condone or allow. The marriage and matrimony of matrilineal type between the individuals Frederique de Bar and Otto Rovin is declare null of its matrilineal clauses, all offspring born from such a union to be known thus as simply ‘Rovin’ rather than ‘de Bar’. These actions come as punishment for the sordid acts levied by this bloodline against the whole of the house; it is necessary to remove an arm that rots so as to save the greater body, and so is that the decision of His Excellency, Adrian de Bar. And thus it is in light of these points which have been brought to the Count Adrian’s view that the descendants of Otto Rovin and Frederique de Bar, the descendants of the kinslayer Baldwin de Bar, are stripped of the name Ashford de Bar for all of eternity until it is deemed that the stain which rests upon the line of their descent is washed away. Never again shall one of their number wear the esteemed name of Ashford de Bar, nor be granted the benefits befitting one of noble blood. They are not to be given hospitality or aid by any servant or bannerman of the House, nor any of those who bear its name. Never again shall his progeny be granted amnesty or the prestigious name of Ashford. Signed, His Excellency, Adrian de Bar, the first of his name, Count of Drusco, Patriarch of the House Ashford de Bar and Lord Great Viceroy of the Holy Orenian Empire. The proclamation would be stamped and sealed with the seal of House Ashford de Bar, the widely known Ashford sun.

IMPERIAL WRIT OF GOVERNANCE FOR THE PROVINCE OF EROCHLAND, 1528 Issued and Confirmed by His Imperial Majesty the Holy Orenian Emperor John I Frederick, 9th of the Deep Cold, 1528 In light of the growing discord against the Empire's authority amongst the populace of Erochland, the Crown has seen fit to dispatch His Excellency, Baron Godwine Percival Horen, as Imperial governor, to oversee the territory and to discourage any further protest amidst the dissenters. Effective immediately, all subjects of Erochland are to comply with the governor's sovereign-appointed authority by word of the Holy Orenian Emperor. Signed, His Excellency, Count Adrian of the House of Ashford de Bar His Excellency, Baron Godwine of the House of Horen