Canton am Warrhim
Lord Baron Canton am Warrhim
Canton am Warrhim was the 8th Baron of Jorick and the current Baron's grandfather. His twenty-year reign as Baron is not remembered fondly in the Barony, as Canton was renowned for his miserly finances and disregard for the maintenance and upkeep of the Barony.
Even amongst his family and children, Canton was known as a miser and pinchpenny. He genuinely resented every single penny he felt pressured or compelled to spend, so much so that many facets of the City and Barony's infrastructure suffered for it. Road repairs, canal upkeep, bridge and port maintenance, defensive and industrial structures all suffered much neglect and unnecessary wear. Whenever he felt money had to be spent, he would increase local taxes to double the coin coming from the baronial coffers. Over the course of his twenty-year reign as Baron, Canton saw the population of the City of Jorick fall by more than 20%, and the baronial revenues fell with the population.
The very house his family lived in, Barony House on the Caldar River, became so desperately in need of repairs that it was almost unfit to live in. Roof leaks threatened meals and sleeping chambers every time it rained, and the amount of mold and mildew the damp created within the palace made living there a constant threat to health and heart. Some sections of the House's cellars were flooded to a point where they couldn't even be entered at all.
The Warrhim Family healers feel it was this very problem that brought about the baron's untimely demise. After a particularly wet and dreary spring, the Baron's health took a dramatic turn for the worse. His skin became deathly pallid seemingly overnight, and he began losing weight very quickly. In less than a month, he went from more than 12 stones in weight to just over 8 stones, a difference of more than 50 lbs. He died in his sleep on the last day of May in 180 AF at the age of 40 years.
