1254 IS: The Broken Crown (bookmark)
Parent: 1254 IS: The Broken World
High King Gardfrei de va Seignon may have once been a good monarch, depending on who was asked, but his obsession with his secret mission consumed him and by the end of his reign the High Kingdom was ruled by an absent lord. When the various claimants to the throne gathered in the 1251 Council of Grapannes, he famously broke his crown apart and threw it at the claimants, telling them that whomever could gather the pieces could rule for all he cared of such 'petty concerns'. Now the High King is gone, leaving north with his most trusted comrades, and the High Kingdom bleeds.