Scene Fifty-Nine: The Last Night of Brags (Part One)
Anyhow.
The sunset of Erune has ultimately sown the seeds of its internal conflict. Oberg the Seventh gradually discovers himself aging, his strength waning, and desperately seeks to clear the path for the new king's ascension, so he finally takes action—his ongoing trouble has always been the two defiant duchies in the southern part of the kingdom.
Brand especially knows that the current ruler, Oberg the Seventh, ascended the throne at the age of ninety-three. This ill-fated king had great ambitions in his youth, aspiring to emulate his grandfather Ansen XI—that was the period when the militia and guard team decrees were first being drafted, marking the peak strength of Erune's central power in the mid to late stages.
