Role

Chapter 4

This destructive political decision was the last straw for Sheltia's
uncles. They suspected there was an incestous relationship between
Sheltia and Acitavian and used this as a catalyst to unite the other
nobles of the Royal Court to usurp the crown from Sheltia. She was
killed in her sleep, smothered by one of her expensive pillows.
It was, as one uncle put it: for the good of the family.

Acitavian was now ruler of the Kingdom, another reality that his
uncles simply could not abide. Killing him would be too obvious, even
as hated as they were they could not destroy the Law that had governed
Nol'Burim for so long. So instead they tasked the Troupe Necromancer
with taking the young man to the mainlands, to learn to govern and
continue his studies. His eldest uncle would rule in his absense.

Heartbroken and disilluioned over the death of his Mother, the young
Acitavian was dropped off and left alone in the city of Galadon at the
door of the Necromancer's guild. For the first time in his life he was
truly alone, though the Magician left him with a present: the mummified
remains of his mother, which the little coin he left Nol'Burim with
allowed him to store safely in the city of Udgaard.

Soon after his journey began he realized there would be no more aid
from his ancestral home. If he was to avenge his mother he would have to
do it on his own.

He would have to make something of himself in this land.