They say bad things happen in threes, in the events in just two days certainly prove it for myself. First, I had to deal with the loss of my brother, Sir Celad Anthas of Oligarch, a noble who had lost his life in a battle in Parm, fighting under the banner of Fontan. Then, as I was preparing for his burial at my manor in Gadlock, his grave site was looted by Kiera Telamon, a troop leader who was then part of the Obsidian Islands but has since been banned, and from the Sultanate of Asena as well. And to add insult to injury, on the day of my brother's funeral, the region of Salta declared its independence from Asena, leaving my betrothed, Countess Zekio Zephire without a home, with no real priority set in repressing the revolt, putting ideas into the heads of the peasants, and showing no understanding from Sultan Korkut as to my recent troubles.
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