Purge of the the Bastard-Heirs of Roland Voloken

Criminal Activity

Roland Voloken was a well-known face at the major brothels and taverns in Arine, it was by divine intervention that he actually married the woman he'd been matched with. Although promiscuous, he was hardly a womanizer, but his many bed-mates were being thoroughly tracked by members of the Council and other Volokens with their eyes on locked on the throne.   The streets ran red with bastard blood that day.

Nearly two scores of Roland Voloken's suspected bastards were butchered in the streets of Arine in full view of the populace.   This act of savagery broke the clear line of succession from the Voloken's main branch to one of the lesser side families. Although, unbeknownst to all, the priest that married Roland and the servant girl, whisked her out of the capital and into the countryside the prior day under the cloak of a moonless night, bequeathing her with Roland's signet ring and a locket with the the Voloken Crest.   The girl vanished from the world and with it the Voloken legacy.