The Death of the Steward

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Hartmut Aldric
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The Death of the Steward

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The mounting pressures of governance, combined with the accompanying endless sleepless nights, had taken their toll on the Steward. He retreated to the Brookshirian countryside in the VI & VII months of 1667, to find some rest and relation at a small hunting lodge he owned in Kralizec.

Capitalizing on the Steward's lengthy vacation, factions in Shirekeep and Elwynn that opposed him during the Steward election and in the contentious Folksraad and Adelsraad elections plotted and financed a mission to kidnap the Steward and kill him.

The Steward was accompanied to the hunting lodge with a small staff and friends and virtually no security. They would stay there for four days and return to Alexandretta.

A contingent of daemonically-possessed mercenaries hired by the notoriously deep-pocketed anti-Aldric factions approached the hunting lodge late one evening and surrounded the modest building.

During the early morning hours, the Steward, three of his closest friends and their wives, and servants were herded into the cellar of the lodge and executed.

Upon the arrival of the authorities after communications from the lodge were cut off by the mercenaries' siege, they entered the cellar and saw the carnage. The bodies laid on the floor with many wounds in their bodies. The blood was running in streams.

The doctor, the maid, and two waiters had also been shot.

When authorities entered, the Steward was still alive, and moaned a little. But he had bled out too much. He soon passed, his body pierced everywhere with bullet holes.
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Shirerithian characters:
  • Regent and Lord Protector Ruadh Aldric of the Kingdom of Ransenar;
  • Lord High Steward Sean O'Callaghan of the Kingdom of Ransenar;
  • Lord Senàn Caldwell, Lord Warden of the Imperial Constabulary.
  • Deceased: Hartmut Aldric, Steward of the Imperial Republic (1660-1665), Duke of Calezi, President of the Council of Ministers of the Imperial Duchy of Brookshire, First Secretary of the Kehl, &etc.

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