Dorreon III Beth - 27th Known Ruler of Revellia
Called Dorreon the Desirous
Rey Dorreon III Beth
Reign: 71 NA - 80 NA
High Magus: Lord Rissard Capall
Chief Justicar: Sir Perrik Dorn Son of King Bethraal the First and Queen Pallas of Graunt. Dorreon and his twin brother Carn were celebrated as unexpected miracles. Their father King Bethraal was a sickly man, being one of few survivors of the Great Sunset Plague. He aged well before his time, walked with a cane not long after turning thirty, and would spend much of his reign bedridden. Queen Pallas, meanwhile, suffered several miscarriages after the birth of their first daughter, Princess Dianna, and was eventually warned that another miscarriage might kill her. Nevertheless, at the urging of the High Magus Carnas Odon and the Queen herself, the King eventually agreed to try again. From this, the twins Dorreon and Carn were born. Another set of twins, Prince Maitiu and Princess Torintha, were born two years later. Prince Dorreon was named after two of the most celebrated kings in Clan Beth's history. Like them, he was strong, courageous, passionate, and charming, though even his celebrants would agree he lacked the wisdom of Dorreon the Magnificent. He was an accomplished warrior and horseman, and was knighted by Lord Rissard Capall after helping to bring down the Knights of the Scale, the very outlaws that had slain his grandfather, King Maitiu II. Yet he was also a prince, and his charming nature meant he was unaccustomed to being refused. He had something of a temper, and would often ignore the advice of his elders, especially when it came to women. Since the age of ten, Prince Dorreon had been betrothed to Raesa Capall, the granddaughter of High Magus Lord Rissard Capall (the prior High Magus having died when Dorreon was five). Raesa was a pious but shy girl, and the Prince had a well-known preference for boisterous, outspoken women, such that he could often find in the wolfhouses of Revelback. In his seventeenth year, he defied his betrothal and wed Lady Tarana Dorn against his parents' wishes. They would bear a single child, a ghastling named Ruark. Many considered the boy ill-fortuned and feared what his rule might bring. The King himself was terrified. Ruark was an Ainros name, and he feared the child might suffer the same misfortune as the King's own elder brother Greeyan and his uncle Garland; both firstborn sons given Ainros names, and both dead before manhood. The King even tried to force them to change the child's name, but an already stark rift between father and son widened here, and the ghastling boy remained Ruark. It must be admitted that neither Prince Dorreon nor Prince Carn were known to be close with their father. Being frail and perpetually ill, the King was more often in his bed than in the training yards, rarely watched his sons riding, and seemed to have little or no patience for sport, hunt, or anything his sons enjoyed. The King was said to be much closer with his third son, Maitiu the Red Prince, but the truth of this is largely unknown. What can be said is that Prince Dorreon celebrated physical strength, something completely absent in his father. Though typically a friendly, gregarious young man, he was known to grow quiet or even tetchy at mention of the King. His marriage of Tarana Dorn, which resulted in Lord Rissard's resignation from his post as High Magus, was surely the death knell of the Prince's relationship with his father. The situation was complicated further a mere three years later, when Prince Dorreon was discovered to have impregnated Princess Gildorrea, his cousin by Princess Dorrena Capall, King Bethraal's elder sister. They named the child after King Bethraal, but it was said the King never once looked upon the babe that bore his name, so shamed was he of his son. Princess Gildorrea was also a granddaughter of Lord Rissard, and this unsurprisingly did nothing to heal the rift between the families. In the start of 71 NA, the King fell ill for the last time. Many suspected Springlight Fever, which was fatal more often than not, and inevitably killed survivors the following year. Around this time, factions began to form around Prince Dorreon and his twin brother, Carn. Carn was the younger brother, but only by a matter of minutes, and he had two sons and a daughter on the way with his wife Lady Silvia Odon. Many suspected that the king meant to disinherit Dorreon and name Carn his heir. If such a plan existed, however, it would never be enacted. King Bethraal died of his fever before the third month of the year, and the new King Dorreon would act at once. The High Magus Brother Wiilam Farre, and the Chief Justicar Samden Ainden were removed at once, as both were believed to support Prince Carn's claim. These actions would have immediate consequences. Brother Wiilam Farre was both a cleric of the Host of Hosts and a Westerner from the Green Isle. His dismissal was taken ill by both the faithful and the Siiari, who were already considered more separated from the ruling powers than ever. As for Samden Ainden, he was the husband of King Dorreon's own aunt, Maiden Ainden, and his dismissal opened a greater rift in the royal family. The King's new Chief Justicar was Sir Perrik Dorn, his father by law with Queen Tarana, and many took this as acknowledgement of the legitimacy of the King's first and true born son, the ghastling Prince Ruark. Yet, in what must have been the hope of uniting two disparate factions under him, Lord Rissard Capall was somehow convinced to resume the office of High Magus. This would succeed in binding both factions to him, yet the two were ever in conflict with one another, and while Ruark remained the heir, young Prince Bethraal's shadow hung over him. Prince Carn's supporters did not vanish with the old king's death. The Odons were chief among these supporters, as they never failed to oppose the Capalls in all things, and the memory of Lord Carnas Odon still granted them a certain stature that the loss of offices could not undo. Many among the Slabhs and Sorshans spoke on the Prince's behalf, and as his sons grew they achieved acclaim as squires. When he sought to betroth his daughter Belessa to Ollar Sirtal, heir to Dubraigh, it was seen as an overt grab for power: Prince Carn was gathering Western strength to use against his brother. As if ordained, the solution presented itself to the King. Word arrived of Mornal pirates raiding New Harbor, a recently-built port at the Yfri Fields. Mornals had not been seen in the Peninsula in centuries, and this presented a great opportunity to earn Yfri's gratitude. The King would allow this marriage between Beth and Sirtal if Prince Carn raised a force to sail north and defeat these pirates. The Prince agreed and began marshaling forces at once. Meanwhile young Ollar, Belessa's betrothed, was summoned to Revelback to foster under Lord Rissard Capall. Many answered Prince Carn's summons, including the younger twins, Prince Maitiu and Princess Torintha. Torintha was a passable speller and magician, and hoped to take record of the great conflict, while Maitiu wished to visit Ethelbrand along the way, as he had developed a fascination with Eysch economics. When the Prince had both his sons accompany him as squires, this seemed entirely normal. Even when he requested to have his wife, Lady Silvia, come as far as Ethelbrand, the King did not blanch. After all, he had his brother's daughter, Belessa, as hostage for his good behavior, and the heir to Sirtal as well. Sivan Strider records that, when Prince Carn and his retinue sailed away, the King considered himself well rid of them. It would be five years before they returned. Prince Carn's eldest son Bennerog had died saving his father's life, but his second son Torin remained hale and hearty. His wife Lady Silvia was pregnant with what would be another daughter, named Alyssiana. Moreover, Prince Carn had made allies during his time away. Young Ceridwen Oishlog, first daughter to Lord Olrak Oishlog, had been pledged to young Torin and brought to foster at Revelback, along with four of Lord Olrak's Breyvs and a hundred personal guards. An Eysch merchant-prince named Count Yohin Laras accompanied the Prince along with his infant son Yonh, whom it was rumored he hoped to betroth to Prince Carn's unborn daughter. The Eyschman brought half a dozen ships, along with two-hundred mercenaries called Eyschers, who had a flamboyant and grizzly repute. On top of all this, they were accompanied by Ermengarda of Felissar, a Vainan wizard and sorceress, who was said to have predicted the unborn child's sex, and an Ethelite clown named Titan, who stood no higher than a man's knee and was said to speak seven languages and play magic on three instruments. All of the East erupted in excitement over these visitors, and the returning hero that had brought them. Lord Olrak's men were said to drink for free in any tavern. The Eyscher mercenaries were the terrors of the seedier alleys and pits yet also inspired several spells in praise of their lavish outfits and extraordinary stories of pillage and plunder. Every storeowner and street vender was eager to befriend Yohin Laras, and Titan the clown was beloved of all the noble children and more than a few lords: he seemed by turns simple-minded and cuttingly clever, unable to understand a simple statement one minute then delivering a scathing jibe against one lord or another the next. As for Ermengarda of Felissar, she would represent but part of the return of wizards into Milosian politics. Many like to blame Ermengarda for the events that gave rise to the Third Brothers Rebellion, but placing such a mantle on any one person would be a fool's errand. The Wizard was never taken into King Dorreon's service, yet she had the ear of several of his counsellors: Chief Justicar Sir Perrik Dorn, Warchief Sir Saaro Uirlis, and Chief of Ships Lord Marras Padwell, not to mention the Princesses Lianna and Maiden, and Lord Cayl Odon, who had left his seat at the Redfort at Queenspoint in the care of his son Arthur, to be closer to court. Kyu Yev Quarry further reports that Ermengarda was trading missives with Princess Dianna at Saolmoth in the hopes of reestablishing wizardry throughout the canton. It would be impossible to recount everything that led up to the Rebellion. Certainly, the death of Lady Silvia in childbed, when at last she delivered Alyssiana, and Prince Carn's subsequent marriage to Fiona Elkwood without the King's leave, could only have exacerbated tensions between the growing factions. When Princess Lianna, a speller who spoke openly against the idea of a ghastling king, suddenly vanished in the Boarswood, many began to fear the young prince Ruark, wondering of what he might be capable. Some would call it wise when the King refused to permit the betrothal between the infant Alyssiana and Count Yohin's four-year-old son, but many considered it foolhardy when he forbade the wedding of Carn's daughter Belessa to Ollar Sirtal. It was the entire impetus for the Prince's voyage, the prize for which he had won so many friends and supporters. It became an open secret that Prince Ruark, now called Ruark Redeye, desired the maid for himself. Queen Tarana was called a witch and a sorceress, though she had never been seen to spell in her life, and even at court it was said she had enchanted the King to ensnare him, first from his betrothed Raesa Capall and later from his true love, Gildorrea, mother to Bethraal, who was already being called Bethraal the Beloved. Gildorrea was of royal blood, and a cousin to Lady Raesa besides, and many saw this as a secret war against Clan Capall, orchestrated by Lord Cayl Odon, a perennial foe of the Capalls and the brother of Carn's wife, Lady Silvia. When an attempt was made on Prince Bethraal's life, the entire city seemed poised for chaos. The assailant had snuck into the Prince's chamber somehow, and vanished out the window when the Breyvs arrived. It seemed impossible that anyone could survive such a leap, yet no body was found, and the Breyvs swore they saw the attacker escape. The Prince described the man as ghast and straw-haired, brightly clad, and indeed a strip of colorful cloth was found upon the floor near the Prince's bed. Blame was immediately placed with the Eyscher mercenaries. Lord Rissard Capall demanded that every last Eyscher be delivered to the Lord Praetor Ronart Dorn for questioning, to which the King eventually consented. Five of the Eyschers died under questioning, and the assailant was not found. The mercenaries grew wroth at this treatment, and their crimes expanded beyond the back alleys of the city. When Lord Rissard demanded they be expelled from the city and the canton, the violence truly began. Prince Carn refused to dismiss the Eyschers, who grew ever more violent in the streets. Paddy Oran, a personal attendant to a member of Lord Cayl's coterie, had his head smashed in during what was called a tavern brawl, though none could identify any of the other combatants. Such deaths as these became common as the King's council grew ever more divided. Prince Ruark's taster, a boy named Gerral, died horribly and was soon discovered by Wizard Ermengarda to have been poisoned. Prince Carn moved at once that Prince Bethraal be legitimized. The King and Queen had but one true born child, he insisted, and Bethraal must be installed in case the unthinkable should happen. Prince Carn's supporters praised this as selfless devotion: as the King's twin brother, he was currently second-in-line of succession after Ruark Redeye. Yet others would slander this as a grab for power, as though Bethraal the Beloved were a political pawn to grant some shadowy figure further influence. But the spark that truly lit the rebellion was the death of Prince Maitiu. Called the Red Prince, Maitiu was the third son of the dead King Bethraal, and twin brother to Princess Torintha. He had been missing for over a day, and was at last found by one of Prince Carn's Breyvs near the north gate, clad in colorful garb, an empty missive satchel at his belt. Wizard Ermengarda concluded the Prince had meant to pass himself as an Eyscher, and that someone had murdered him for no more than that. It would be Queen Tarana (prompted, some said, by Ruark Redeye) who asked what was meant by the empty missive satchel. Surely, she said, Prince Maitiu had been delivering a spell to someone, and whoever had slain him meant to intercept that message. This would lead to what Sivan Strider dubbed the Cauldron Council, an enormous bout of shouting, accusations, and counter-accusations that would lead to open violence. The King, Prince Carn, young Ruark and Bethraal, even Princess Torintha and Wizard Ermengarda, all drew steel. Count Yohin Laras intervened, and found himself slashed through the belly. He would not survive the night. At this, Prince Carn and his coterie abandoned the council chamber, the castle, and the city. He let it run through Revelback that Count Yohin had been murdered by the King, and left the Eyschers to work their evils on the city as his family and loyal supporters retreated for Saolmoth, seat of his cousin Lord Pater Graunt (nephew of his mother the Dowager Queen Pallas). The events of the Third Brothers Rebellion are too great and grizzly to recount here. Prince Carn would lose his remaining son to war, and his new daughter Alyssiana to Springlight Fever. Princess Torintha would lose her eye on the battlefield leading a company of archers for Prince Carn, and would be known as One-Eyed Tori ever after. Dianna, elder sister to the warring twins, died under mysterious circumstances that Ermengarda would attribute to a sorceress, one working for Ruark Redeye, or perhaps Redeye himself. Dowager Queen Pallas of Graunt passed away from a winter chill: her mind had started to wander, and she lamented on her deathbed that four of her five children had preceded her into death, though at the time only two of them had yet died. Prince Bethraal the Beloved remained with his father, and twice took a wound when defending the peasantry from the Eyschers, despite being only ten years of age. The war would end with the infamous Twins' Mock, the hollymock fought between the brothers at Badger Ridge. Carn prevailed, shattering all three of Dorreon's shields after losing one himself, yet Dorreon broke his faith and fought on. Sir Cullach Odon, celebrated war hero and brother to Lord Cayl Odon, interceded and slew the King, saying he could not bear to see Prince Carn kill his own brother. Carn thanked him for his sacrifice, but could not forgive him for breaking faith and murdering a king. Carn took the crown from his dead twin's head and named himself king, after which he struck off the head of Sir Cullach, who knelt and submitted to the new king's judgment.
High Magus: Lord Rissard Capall
Chief Justicar: Sir Perrik Dorn Son of King Bethraal the First and Queen Pallas of Graunt. Dorreon and his twin brother Carn were celebrated as unexpected miracles. Their father King Bethraal was a sickly man, being one of few survivors of the Great Sunset Plague. He aged well before his time, walked with a cane not long after turning thirty, and would spend much of his reign bedridden. Queen Pallas, meanwhile, suffered several miscarriages after the birth of their first daughter, Princess Dianna, and was eventually warned that another miscarriage might kill her. Nevertheless, at the urging of the High Magus Carnas Odon and the Queen herself, the King eventually agreed to try again. From this, the twins Dorreon and Carn were born. Another set of twins, Prince Maitiu and Princess Torintha, were born two years later. Prince Dorreon was named after two of the most celebrated kings in Clan Beth's history. Like them, he was strong, courageous, passionate, and charming, though even his celebrants would agree he lacked the wisdom of Dorreon the Magnificent. He was an accomplished warrior and horseman, and was knighted by Lord Rissard Capall after helping to bring down the Knights of the Scale, the very outlaws that had slain his grandfather, King Maitiu II. Yet he was also a prince, and his charming nature meant he was unaccustomed to being refused. He had something of a temper, and would often ignore the advice of his elders, especially when it came to women. Since the age of ten, Prince Dorreon had been betrothed to Raesa Capall, the granddaughter of High Magus Lord Rissard Capall (the prior High Magus having died when Dorreon was five). Raesa was a pious but shy girl, and the Prince had a well-known preference for boisterous, outspoken women, such that he could often find in the wolfhouses of Revelback. In his seventeenth year, he defied his betrothal and wed Lady Tarana Dorn against his parents' wishes. They would bear a single child, a ghastling named Ruark. Many considered the boy ill-fortuned and feared what his rule might bring. The King himself was terrified. Ruark was an Ainros name, and he feared the child might suffer the same misfortune as the King's own elder brother Greeyan and his uncle Garland; both firstborn sons given Ainros names, and both dead before manhood. The King even tried to force them to change the child's name, but an already stark rift between father and son widened here, and the ghastling boy remained Ruark. It must be admitted that neither Prince Dorreon nor Prince Carn were known to be close with their father. Being frail and perpetually ill, the King was more often in his bed than in the training yards, rarely watched his sons riding, and seemed to have little or no patience for sport, hunt, or anything his sons enjoyed. The King was said to be much closer with his third son, Maitiu the Red Prince, but the truth of this is largely unknown. What can be said is that Prince Dorreon celebrated physical strength, something completely absent in his father. Though typically a friendly, gregarious young man, he was known to grow quiet or even tetchy at mention of the King. His marriage of Tarana Dorn, which resulted in Lord Rissard's resignation from his post as High Magus, was surely the death knell of the Prince's relationship with his father. The situation was complicated further a mere three years later, when Prince Dorreon was discovered to have impregnated Princess Gildorrea, his cousin by Princess Dorrena Capall, King Bethraal's elder sister. They named the child after King Bethraal, but it was said the King never once looked upon the babe that bore his name, so shamed was he of his son. Princess Gildorrea was also a granddaughter of Lord Rissard, and this unsurprisingly did nothing to heal the rift between the families. In the start of 71 NA, the King fell ill for the last time. Many suspected Springlight Fever, which was fatal more often than not, and inevitably killed survivors the following year. Around this time, factions began to form around Prince Dorreon and his twin brother, Carn. Carn was the younger brother, but only by a matter of minutes, and he had two sons and a daughter on the way with his wife Lady Silvia Odon. Many suspected that the king meant to disinherit Dorreon and name Carn his heir. If such a plan existed, however, it would never be enacted. King Bethraal died of his fever before the third month of the year, and the new King Dorreon would act at once. The High Magus Brother Wiilam Farre, and the Chief Justicar Samden Ainden were removed at once, as both were believed to support Prince Carn's claim. These actions would have immediate consequences. Brother Wiilam Farre was both a cleric of the Host of Hosts and a Westerner from the Green Isle. His dismissal was taken ill by both the faithful and the Siiari, who were already considered more separated from the ruling powers than ever. As for Samden Ainden, he was the husband of King Dorreon's own aunt, Maiden Ainden, and his dismissal opened a greater rift in the royal family. The King's new Chief Justicar was Sir Perrik Dorn, his father by law with Queen Tarana, and many took this as acknowledgement of the legitimacy of the King's first and true born son, the ghastling Prince Ruark. Yet, in what must have been the hope of uniting two disparate factions under him, Lord Rissard Capall was somehow convinced to resume the office of High Magus. This would succeed in binding both factions to him, yet the two were ever in conflict with one another, and while Ruark remained the heir, young Prince Bethraal's shadow hung over him. Prince Carn's supporters did not vanish with the old king's death. The Odons were chief among these supporters, as they never failed to oppose the Capalls in all things, and the memory of Lord Carnas Odon still granted them a certain stature that the loss of offices could not undo. Many among the Slabhs and Sorshans spoke on the Prince's behalf, and as his sons grew they achieved acclaim as squires. When he sought to betroth his daughter Belessa to Ollar Sirtal, heir to Dubraigh, it was seen as an overt grab for power: Prince Carn was gathering Western strength to use against his brother. As if ordained, the solution presented itself to the King. Word arrived of Mornal pirates raiding New Harbor, a recently-built port at the Yfri Fields. Mornals had not been seen in the Peninsula in centuries, and this presented a great opportunity to earn Yfri's gratitude. The King would allow this marriage between Beth and Sirtal if Prince Carn raised a force to sail north and defeat these pirates. The Prince agreed and began marshaling forces at once. Meanwhile young Ollar, Belessa's betrothed, was summoned to Revelback to foster under Lord Rissard Capall. Many answered Prince Carn's summons, including the younger twins, Prince Maitiu and Princess Torintha. Torintha was a passable speller and magician, and hoped to take record of the great conflict, while Maitiu wished to visit Ethelbrand along the way, as he had developed a fascination with Eysch economics. When the Prince had both his sons accompany him as squires, this seemed entirely normal. Even when he requested to have his wife, Lady Silvia, come as far as Ethelbrand, the King did not blanch. After all, he had his brother's daughter, Belessa, as hostage for his good behavior, and the heir to Sirtal as well. Sivan Strider records that, when Prince Carn and his retinue sailed away, the King considered himself well rid of them. It would be five years before they returned. Prince Carn's eldest son Bennerog had died saving his father's life, but his second son Torin remained hale and hearty. His wife Lady Silvia was pregnant with what would be another daughter, named Alyssiana. Moreover, Prince Carn had made allies during his time away. Young Ceridwen Oishlog, first daughter to Lord Olrak Oishlog, had been pledged to young Torin and brought to foster at Revelback, along with four of Lord Olrak's Breyvs and a hundred personal guards. An Eysch merchant-prince named Count Yohin Laras accompanied the Prince along with his infant son Yonh, whom it was rumored he hoped to betroth to Prince Carn's unborn daughter. The Eyschman brought half a dozen ships, along with two-hundred mercenaries called Eyschers, who had a flamboyant and grizzly repute. On top of all this, they were accompanied by Ermengarda of Felissar, a Vainan wizard and sorceress, who was said to have predicted the unborn child's sex, and an Ethelite clown named Titan, who stood no higher than a man's knee and was said to speak seven languages and play magic on three instruments. All of the East erupted in excitement over these visitors, and the returning hero that had brought them. Lord Olrak's men were said to drink for free in any tavern. The Eyscher mercenaries were the terrors of the seedier alleys and pits yet also inspired several spells in praise of their lavish outfits and extraordinary stories of pillage and plunder. Every storeowner and street vender was eager to befriend Yohin Laras, and Titan the clown was beloved of all the noble children and more than a few lords: he seemed by turns simple-minded and cuttingly clever, unable to understand a simple statement one minute then delivering a scathing jibe against one lord or another the next. As for Ermengarda of Felissar, she would represent but part of the return of wizards into Milosian politics. Many like to blame Ermengarda for the events that gave rise to the Third Brothers Rebellion, but placing such a mantle on any one person would be a fool's errand. The Wizard was never taken into King Dorreon's service, yet she had the ear of several of his counsellors: Chief Justicar Sir Perrik Dorn, Warchief Sir Saaro Uirlis, and Chief of Ships Lord Marras Padwell, not to mention the Princesses Lianna and Maiden, and Lord Cayl Odon, who had left his seat at the Redfort at Queenspoint in the care of his son Arthur, to be closer to court. Kyu Yev Quarry further reports that Ermengarda was trading missives with Princess Dianna at Saolmoth in the hopes of reestablishing wizardry throughout the canton. It would be impossible to recount everything that led up to the Rebellion. Certainly, the death of Lady Silvia in childbed, when at last she delivered Alyssiana, and Prince Carn's subsequent marriage to Fiona Elkwood without the King's leave, could only have exacerbated tensions between the growing factions. When Princess Lianna, a speller who spoke openly against the idea of a ghastling king, suddenly vanished in the Boarswood, many began to fear the young prince Ruark, wondering of what he might be capable. Some would call it wise when the King refused to permit the betrothal between the infant Alyssiana and Count Yohin's four-year-old son, but many considered it foolhardy when he forbade the wedding of Carn's daughter Belessa to Ollar Sirtal. It was the entire impetus for the Prince's voyage, the prize for which he had won so many friends and supporters. It became an open secret that Prince Ruark, now called Ruark Redeye, desired the maid for himself. Queen Tarana was called a witch and a sorceress, though she had never been seen to spell in her life, and even at court it was said she had enchanted the King to ensnare him, first from his betrothed Raesa Capall and later from his true love, Gildorrea, mother to Bethraal, who was already being called Bethraal the Beloved. Gildorrea was of royal blood, and a cousin to Lady Raesa besides, and many saw this as a secret war against Clan Capall, orchestrated by Lord Cayl Odon, a perennial foe of the Capalls and the brother of Carn's wife, Lady Silvia. When an attempt was made on Prince Bethraal's life, the entire city seemed poised for chaos. The assailant had snuck into the Prince's chamber somehow, and vanished out the window when the Breyvs arrived. It seemed impossible that anyone could survive such a leap, yet no body was found, and the Breyvs swore they saw the attacker escape. The Prince described the man as ghast and straw-haired, brightly clad, and indeed a strip of colorful cloth was found upon the floor near the Prince's bed. Blame was immediately placed with the Eyscher mercenaries. Lord Rissard Capall demanded that every last Eyscher be delivered to the Lord Praetor Ronart Dorn for questioning, to which the King eventually consented. Five of the Eyschers died under questioning, and the assailant was not found. The mercenaries grew wroth at this treatment, and their crimes expanded beyond the back alleys of the city. When Lord Rissard demanded they be expelled from the city and the canton, the violence truly began. Prince Carn refused to dismiss the Eyschers, who grew ever more violent in the streets. Paddy Oran, a personal attendant to a member of Lord Cayl's coterie, had his head smashed in during what was called a tavern brawl, though none could identify any of the other combatants. Such deaths as these became common as the King's council grew ever more divided. Prince Ruark's taster, a boy named Gerral, died horribly and was soon discovered by Wizard Ermengarda to have been poisoned. Prince Carn moved at once that Prince Bethraal be legitimized. The King and Queen had but one true born child, he insisted, and Bethraal must be installed in case the unthinkable should happen. Prince Carn's supporters praised this as selfless devotion: as the King's twin brother, he was currently second-in-line of succession after Ruark Redeye. Yet others would slander this as a grab for power, as though Bethraal the Beloved were a political pawn to grant some shadowy figure further influence. But the spark that truly lit the rebellion was the death of Prince Maitiu. Called the Red Prince, Maitiu was the third son of the dead King Bethraal, and twin brother to Princess Torintha. He had been missing for over a day, and was at last found by one of Prince Carn's Breyvs near the north gate, clad in colorful garb, an empty missive satchel at his belt. Wizard Ermengarda concluded the Prince had meant to pass himself as an Eyscher, and that someone had murdered him for no more than that. It would be Queen Tarana (prompted, some said, by Ruark Redeye) who asked what was meant by the empty missive satchel. Surely, she said, Prince Maitiu had been delivering a spell to someone, and whoever had slain him meant to intercept that message. This would lead to what Sivan Strider dubbed the Cauldron Council, an enormous bout of shouting, accusations, and counter-accusations that would lead to open violence. The King, Prince Carn, young Ruark and Bethraal, even Princess Torintha and Wizard Ermengarda, all drew steel. Count Yohin Laras intervened, and found himself slashed through the belly. He would not survive the night. At this, Prince Carn and his coterie abandoned the council chamber, the castle, and the city. He let it run through Revelback that Count Yohin had been murdered by the King, and left the Eyschers to work their evils on the city as his family and loyal supporters retreated for Saolmoth, seat of his cousin Lord Pater Graunt (nephew of his mother the Dowager Queen Pallas). The events of the Third Brothers Rebellion are too great and grizzly to recount here. Prince Carn would lose his remaining son to war, and his new daughter Alyssiana to Springlight Fever. Princess Torintha would lose her eye on the battlefield leading a company of archers for Prince Carn, and would be known as One-Eyed Tori ever after. Dianna, elder sister to the warring twins, died under mysterious circumstances that Ermengarda would attribute to a sorceress, one working for Ruark Redeye, or perhaps Redeye himself. Dowager Queen Pallas of Graunt passed away from a winter chill: her mind had started to wander, and she lamented on her deathbed that four of her five children had preceded her into death, though at the time only two of them had yet died. Prince Bethraal the Beloved remained with his father, and twice took a wound when defending the peasantry from the Eyschers, despite being only ten years of age. The war would end with the infamous Twins' Mock, the hollymock fought between the brothers at Badger Ridge. Carn prevailed, shattering all three of Dorreon's shields after losing one himself, yet Dorreon broke his faith and fought on. Sir Cullach Odon, celebrated war hero and brother to Lord Cayl Odon, interceded and slew the King, saying he could not bear to see Prince Carn kill his own brother. Carn thanked him for his sacrifice, but could not forgive him for breaking faith and murdering a king. Carn took the crown from his dead twin's head and named himself king, after which he struck off the head of Sir Cullach, who knelt and submitted to the new king's judgment.
"Perhaps the strangest mystery surrounding Dorreon III, and one rarely mentioned, is the issue of his children. He was a virile man, and as a Prince was said to visit many a lady's chamber. He married Queen Tarana for passion's sake, and even that did not stop him from coupling with Princess Gildorrea. Yet for all his conquests, but two sons emerged to bear his name. Were both Tarana and Gildorrea so infertile as to produce a single son each? Where were all the bastards that must surely have come from Dorreon's forays to the brothels of the city? What of the other wellborn ladies that must surely have enjoyed the King's attentions? Dorreon's father Bethraal I was infirm and old before his time, yet ultimately he produced five children, despite spending most of his life in the sickbed. Dorreon's brother Carn produced seven children with two wives before his own early death. Could the great, lusty King Dorreon have been unable to sire heirs? And if so, how did Ruark Redeye and Bethraal the Beloved come so quickly and unexpectedly from him?
Social
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Ethnicity
Honorary & Occupational Titles
Reynar of the Saoirai and the Siiari
Lord of the Boarswood and the Cape of Monsters
Overlord of the Frontier and the Green Isle
Shield of the Southern Promontory
High Lord of all Revellia
Lord of the Boarswood and the Cape of Monsters
Overlord of the Frontier and the Green Isle
Shield of the Southern Promontory
High Lord of all Revellia
Life
5049
5080
31 years old
Circumstances of Death
Slain by Sir Cullach Odon after breaking faith in a hollymock with his brother, Prince Carn
Birthplace
Revelback
Family
Eyes
Green
Hair
Brown
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Ghast (tan)
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