“Duke Karl is young, his family has not been nobility for long, many would rather see themselves on the throne, and if they could find a way to justify his removal they would likely seize upon it.” He explained, Joachim looked nonplussed. Handy could understand why, this was the first anyone in the court heard mention of anything like this. If there was one thing Handy learned as a hard and fast fact about this world it’s that rumours spread like wildfire. The fact that something as big as a Griffon being accused of necromancy hadn’t made the castle scuttlebutt, leant Joachim to be a tad sceptical of the claim.