The country was long ruled by a monarchy. The Andres family, old, powerful, and aristocratic. Not to mention almost universally beloved, by no one so much as their own kingdom.
Dimitris Sarandis first came to power as the late King William's adviser, nearly twenty years ago. He remained close to the family for the next decade, serving as an invaluable resource to the King.
And then one morning ...the Queen was found, murdered in her own bed while the King had been abroad. A search of her quarters revealed a secreted letter in a hidden compartment beside her bed: a half finished letter from the Queen, voicing her suspicions towards the Royal's only son, the young Crown Prince, whom she believed to be plotting actively against his own parents.
The penmanship was proven to be the Queen's, and the young prince... was arrested and thrown into the dungeons of the castle to await trial for high treason and murder. The country was sickened: the prince had been entirely adored by his own people, and that he might have hidden such a dark nature threw them into a panic.
Things were further upset when Dimitris and the guards discovered the King attempting to smuggle the prince out of the dungeons in the middle of the night. A battle ensued. The prince was slain. The King was taken - and beheaded for treason as well. The country fell into a complete uproar. And it was Sarandis who seemed prepared for this eventuality, entirely. With the support of many of Andres' prominent nobles, he made a political push to cast aside the corrupt monarchy, and replace it with a parliamentary system that would represent the will of the people.
It succeeded, and to the surprise of few, Sarandis was elected Prime Minister. The Parliament was packed with his supporters, and Andres began to 'rebuild.'
While on the surface, they seemed to thrive, it was the darker undercurrent of this new "Parliament"'s rule that attracted our attention. Sarandis' anti-Shadowkind sentiments were impossible to ignore. And the more we investigated matters, the more dire the situation revealed itself to be.
Sarandis is, essentially, a dictator in all but name, and manipulative enough to have secured himself the position without a single tarnish on his reputation.
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The country was long ruled by a monarchy. The Andres family, old, powerful, and aristocratic. Not to mention almost universally beloved, by no one so much as their own kingdom.
Dimitris Sarandis first came to power as the late King William's adviser, nearly twenty years ago. He remained close to the family for the next decade, serving as an invaluable resource to the King.
And then one morning ...the Queen was found, murdered in her own bed while the King had been abroad. A search of her quarters revealed a secreted letter in a hidden compartment beside her bed: a half finished letter from the Queen, voicing her suspicions towards the Royal's only son, the young Crown Prince, whom she believed to be plotting actively against his own parents.
The penmanship was proven to be the Queen's, and the young prince... was arrested and thrown into the dungeons of the castle to await trial for high treason and murder. The country was sickened: the prince had been entirely adored by his own people, and that he might have hidden such a dark nature threw them into a panic.
Things were further upset when Dimitris and the guards discovered the King attempting to smuggle the prince out of the dungeons in the middle of the night. A battle ensued. The prince was slain. The King was taken - and beheaded for treason as well. The country fell into a complete uproar. And it was Sarandis who seemed prepared for this eventuality, entirely. With the support of many of Andres' prominent nobles, he made a political push to cast aside the corrupt monarchy, and replace it with a parliamentary system that would represent the will of the people.
It succeeded, and to the surprise of few, Sarandis was elected Prime Minister. The Parliament was packed with his supporters, and Andres began to 'rebuild.'
While on the surface, they seemed to thrive, it was the darker undercurrent of this new "Parliament"'s rule that attracted our attention. Sarandis' anti-Shadowkind sentiments were impossible to ignore. And the more we investigated matters, the more dire the situation revealed itself to be.
Sarandis is, essentially, a dictator in all but name, and manipulative enough to have secured himself the position without a single tarnish on his reputation.