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Mical Wisestar (concept)

Mical Wisestar was an ancient Chevalien noble that inherited the Viceroyalty of the West (roughly modern Porte den la Bastone) from his more famous father, folk-hero Viceroy Inian Wisestar. The Wisestar name was likely given to Mical, by Mical, to buoy his fleeting prestige. It is perhaps his one lasting legacy; the name passing to his father centuries later.

Despite his father's firm grip on power, Mical faced growing rebellions from Marcher and Gallicader rebels both. With the High Kingdom's collapse, the onus of stabilizing his realm fell solely on him, an exceptionally difficult task that he struggled to match. During a campaign to bring all lands his father controlled back under his control, he entered conflict with (then little more than several villages) Peti Gisredde.

This was an unexpected disaster, and Mical would face a humiliating defeat in the following Three Pier War, fables often claiming because of the efforts of folk-hero Jan va Gisredde. Failing to capture so much as a string of minor villages, Mical was overthrown, and the Viceroyalty disbanded and its neighbors soon annexed its lands. Mical would soon die in exile with no notable heirs.

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