Uleizar Incident

The Uleizar Clan was an influential family in Adalborno, and were after the throne. The royal family had a heavy debt with several other noble families, and tensions were starting to rise when the bottom of the treasury was beginning to show after some villages closeby were sacked by brigands and Queen Zarea was forced to reinforce the immediate vicinity of the city.

When the crown asked for more loans, it almost came to outright revolt. Sillavar Uleizar, the patriarch of Clan Uleizar at the time, devised a plan to hire an assassin to kill the queen and frame the murder on one of the families that now openly defied the monarchy.

Sillavar made one crucial mistake, however. His son Garidan, who he had briefed on his machinations, was overheard boasting in a private room in a tavern about how his family would take over the throne from those inept Narclairs. He was completely drunk, and all of his friends assumed he was jesting, but when became clear that he didn't, silence fell in the room. One of the servants overheard this situation from the other side of the door, and informed the royal family of this situation, in exchange for a hefty sum if she was proven right.

Queen Zarea didn't believe it at first, but sent out her spies nonetheless. When they confirmed the maid's story, Queen Zarea asked Alriman to stop the Uleizars on the night they were supposed to carry out the attempt at her life. She chose him because his clan hadn't lent the crown any money, hence they didn't have a motive to back up the Uleizars. Alriman Calmorra, together with three unnamed men, waited in the tower where the queen would be sleeping normally. They filled her bed with hay, and waited. When a shady figure climbed through the window, Alriman jumped out of the shadows and pierced the assassins heart with his longsword.

At the same time, two other Calmorra and Narclair men, accompanied by royal guards, arrested Sillavar, Garidan and other clan members. All but one Uleizar were executed (a distant cousin of Sillavar called Annivar), because they had nothing on him. He left through the gates, swearing that an Uleizarian dynasty would one day reign over Lihanna (which, in less than 200 years, would be a reality).

Alriman was a heroic figure from that day onward, and Clan Calmorra was restored to its former glory.