Sir Keldic

A fine specimen of the once noble Oredian stock, Sir Keldic ran afoul of various criminal factions in his quest to bring law order and goodness to his Barony. His anti-corruption efforts earned him both their respect and the ire of the local thieves guilds. They generally co-existed peacefully enough, Keldic would run the guild out when they got to bold with their thieving, and they would make trade difficult in return by paying brigands to attack the wool convoys. Nether side could gain a military advantage for long and eventually the guild just took over more of the legitimate wool markets and simply charged higher prices to make up for their illicit losses. It set a precedent of conflict for his rule.

It wasn't until he inadvertently got between a half-orc assassin and his mark, a minor knight who failed to pay off some gambling debts to Gastiona Lod of Spinecastle while riding through his barony that the trouble really started. He killed the assassin on the spot, stripped the knight of his title, and finding the trail led to the fighting slave pits of Spinecastle run by some of the local Ripper clans (who were also being used by the thieves guild as paid muscle) he went after the Hobgoblins with a vengeance.

A decade of warfare ensued, the de-spurred knights family refused to render aid, and some say helped the Rippers by allowing them passage through their lands in exchange for not sacking their serfs hamlets. The Rippers ultimately succeed in laying waste to the Barony and killing off his entire family by capturing each one by one and sending them Spinecastle to die in the very pits Keldic was trying to shut down.

Keldic was recuperating with his wife and youngest daughter in his manor at Wanborne when Trozigs raiders attacked. He and his wife were killed, their bodies put on display while his daughter Sophia was reportedly either sent back to the Rippers castle or perhaps north to Spinecastle.