The Crown of Greenguard

Alteon and the Dreadhaven Rebellion

Before Alteon's reign, Drakath's father ruled Greenguard. Drakath remembers him as Slugwrath, the tyrant whose enslavement of humans brought the Dreadhaven rebellion against him. You revisit that rebellion as young Alden, the future King Alteon, who fights beside Valen and the healer Lynaria to overthrow the tyrant.

As the rebels approach, the king gives young Drakath the evil-eye necklace he has long worn. Drakath values the gift but does not yet understand its significance.

Although Alteon refuses to punish a child for his father's crimes and spares Drakath, the prince interprets his mercy as weakness rather than kindness. He later gathers mercenaries to retake the throne.

The rebels make Alteon their king, and he marries Lynaria despite the love his friend Valen also bears her. Valen's attempt to rescue her after the wedding leads him to the DoomKnight armor and his transformation into Sepulchure.

Victoria and Robina the Hood

Alteon's daughters are Victoria, Brittany and Tara, and after Lynaria's death, the Royal Archives show him comforting the young Brittany with a promise to teach her to be queen. Protecting his family and the land their mother loved becomes a duty he carries into the Chaos War.

Under the name Robina the Hood, Victoria works beyond the palace and helps you organize resistance to Chaos. She later returns to her royal name to take command of Greenguard's forces, continuing to work alongside you.

The earlier Dreadhaven memory places Victoria against Drakath at his bandit fort in Oaklore, where he campaigns against her father's rule. Beneath their hostility, he imagines her beside him as queen, while she wonders whether he might change. They let each other go with threats of a deadly rematch, only to stumble into admitting that they hope to meet again.

Greenguard's Noble Houses

Alteon's settlement left grievances among Greenguard's noble houses. Henry Vaughn III hated Dethrix, whose actions killed his brothers, yet his house's former allegiance brought restrictions that prevented him from defending parts of Chiral Valley. In later court affairs, Henry resents the Lightguard's influence and works with the Seraphic Paladins to limit it.

Those divisions persist under Victoria. Granville promotes conquest, while other families endure ostracism over ancestry or past loyalties. Laidronette's family is shunned because her mother married a commoner. Henry and Marigold bear the reputation of their fathers.

Alteon's Death and Victoria's Succession

Alteon's corruption spreads into Swordhaven and eventually claims Brittany's life. Refusing to let Chaos use him to harm more people, he leaves you no way to save him. His final appeal is for the Alliance to remain united against Drakath, with Gravelyn's help if hope fails.

Victoria asserts her claim as Alteon's eldest surviving daughter, while rival claims gather around Brentan and Tara. Tara is less interested in ruling than the advisers promoting her. Victoria puts the defense of Lore before the succession dispute and joins Gravelyn at Shadowfall, where their allies prepare to face Drakath together.

Swordhaven Gardens

When Swordhaven opens its royal gardens and ballroom to visitors, Lady Xaria and Lord Harley ask for help putting the ghosts in the grounds to rest. Xaria can no longer wield a sword after taking on a burden passed down in her family. An ancestor sealed an evil inside their own body, and Xaria was the only one of her siblings to defeat their father and inherit the duty. She hopes she can still teach others to fight.

Nialla would rather play the piano than field the invitations knights keep bringing from their lords. She remembers that Princess Brittany gave her a choice about marriage that many noblewomen never received. Elsewhere, the maids gather poisonous flowers, including crocuses once given to a queen of the old dynasty. The new court meets on grounds still full of the old one’s belongings.

The Royal Maze

Loyalists and rebels alike still haunt the maze, whose hedges shift behind Harley every time he tries to map it. Among the relics you find are a coin stamped with Dethrix’s face and broken glass from Queen Marjorie’s galas. Harley remembers hearing how Marjorie threw goblets at Dethrix until he learned to dodge. Dethrix later threw things at his own son, Drakath.

Shackles marked with bites give Harley a lead on what happened to his father’s missing comrades. Dethrix had some captured rebels executed and turned others loose in the maze with broken limbs so the court could hunt them with boars. After the rebellion, Alteon ordered proper burials for enemies Dethrix had buried kneeling toward the throne. You also find a letter from someone who wanted a man named Felix to find love again. Harley offers to pass it on if the Felix he knows returns to Greenguard.

The feral descendants of Dethrix’s boars still come out of the maze. A novice Extinction Artist collects their blood for paint, while Aficionado Cosima wants her music to make an audience feel as though they’re awaiting execution. Cosima has a broken violin she says Drakath smashed himself, although Xaria’s father said Dethrix broke it over his son’s head. Harley and Xaria decide to arrest the Artists and question them about their interest in the court that helped set the Chaos War in motion.

Divorare Pass

A gap in the hedge leads to a stretch of the maze where daylight gives way to dusk. You hear a howl the Extinction Artists have been imitating with brass horns. Xaria recognizes some of them from Lynaria’s memorial and wonders what their Maestro, Nazarene, intends to do in Darkovia.

Nazarene’s notebook traces the howling creature to Dethrix’s campaign against Darkovia. His mages mixed the blood of captured werewolves with that of other monsters, and she believes he released the hybrids into the maze when he could no longer control them. She names this one the Divorare, a werewolf altered with dragon blood. Xaria considers killing it a mercy, but Harley remembers werewolves in Battleon who helped keep their neighbors safe and asks you to spare it. Once you subdue the Divorare, he sets out to find Clerics who can help it.

Sources

Roots of Rebellion, Divorare Pass