BloodBound Crown
JanayJourneytaken by the dark elf kingdarkness kingmy dear cold blooded kingthe blood king
At the copied handwriting, his father's and Rowan's, the neat documentation of a massacre and the small defiant annotation of one survivor.
"Tell me about the noble houses," she said. "The three that had alliance bonds with the Vales. What happened to them?"
He'd been dreading this part.
"House Aldenmoor was the most powerful of the three. Old family, significant landholdings in the north, strong independent military force. Within three months of the Purge—" He found the page. "There was an outbreak of a hemorrhagic fever in their northern estates. It killed the head of the house, two of his sons, and roughly a third of their fighting force."