The Hightower Affair

The Hightower Affair was a series of arrests, trials, and consequent executions that occurred from mid 433 A.C. to late 433 A.C. Such an event occurred beneath the diligent eye of Lord Arthur Hightower soon after his return to Oldtown from the Capital, and saw the wholesale removal of what was coined "the Cult of Oldtown".

The series of consecutive trials that came to form a large and important stage in the Hightower Affair did so find the accused guilty of the many heinous crimes brought against them so, even if they were rather swift moving trials.

Discovery of Betrayal
When at first Lord Athur Hightower returned to Oldtown in 432 A.C., he did not expect little more than issues revolving around the presence, be it a fading presence, of the Warsmiths and those treacherous vassals and subjects of the Hightower. But alas, such was not to be, and when the time did come for Arthur to raise his men to arms and march out the gates of Oldtown to cleanse his lands of all remaining traitors, much more than was expected to be found, was so unveiled.

Amidst the scouring of his lands for any remaining Warsmiths, and the routing out of the treacherous elements of the Houses of Bulwer, Cuy, and Costayne, which had so fallen from place of trust and prominence in the eyes of the Hightower, was a discovery unexpected made.

A man-servant, one named Barris, to his late Lord Father, Leyton Hightower, was discovered fleeing along the banks of the Whispering Sound near to Blackcrown, the seat of House Bulwer. Soon was the man recognised by the Knights riding with Arthur as one who had aided the Warsmiths during their illegal rule over Oldtown, and so, the man's fate was decided; death. But alas, before the man's head could be removed from his shoulders then and there, he began to spill forth a barrage of words, words that at the time made no sense, but sounded as if they might amount to something. And so, Barris the Babbler was born, and the beginning of the end for the Cult of Oldtown was alive.