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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3548684" data-attributes="member: 3448">The Council spent a little additional time wrapping up loose ends.  Alistair drew up, signed, and sealed a bill of attainder declaring the eldest son of the Duke of Brightspan guilty of treason and ordering his execution.  The execution could not be carried out as long as he was surrounded by a hostile army, but attainting him would ensure that he could not inherit the Duchy of Brightspan if the current Duke died, and that if Alistair were replaced as Archduke, his heir would know of the threat.  Alistair took care in drafting the bill to make sure that it specified that the attainder did not work corruption of blood, but instead accelerated the inheritance of Lord Brightspan’s children.  The other nobles would revolt, possibly literally, if the Archduke tried to declare the lands of one of the great houses forfeit, and the Duke of Brightspan’s eldest grandson, serving as a page to the Archduke, remained completely loyal.  Alistair also decided that a young boy, even one who would be a high noble one day, did not need to know that his father had been condemned to death and his father’s lands and holdings transferred to him.With everything taken care of except the great duel, Alistair and Kit retired to privacy, to make the most of the last day before the coronation.The dust burned brightly within the Master Unbidden on the night before the duel, but through shear force of will he continued to live.  Indeed, he managed to maintain his full concentration and showed no signs of imminent death.  [The DM had us roll an additional three saving throws for the last night for the Master Unbidden.  Suffice to say, we did not consider it an auspicious sign when we rolled three consecutive 20s.]  The Master Unbidden then went about a series of ritual preparations.  He ate a fine breakfast and carefully dressed in his crystal armor--armor that he normally wore at all times, but had not since accepting the challenge.  His clothing-- Noldar silk clothes of enormous value--went to the poor as charity.  He carefully boxed his favorite swords and then asked the innkeep to throw them in the river.  Finally prepared, he hired a boy to carry the banner of his order to the field of honor, and brought only himself, his armor, and his unenchanted rapiers.Lord Davion, for his part, brought a large entourage to the field of battle, including uruk drummers, a drow carrying the banner of House Aufaugauthal’arim--a deliberate slap at his house, with its refusal to tolerate drow children, but one they could do nothing about, because using the banner was clearly his right-- and the bishop who served as his chaplain to heal him after the battle, assuming he was victorious.</blockquote>

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