Yay for adding lore ! 😁 All you need to do now is join the dots so it fits in with the rest of the dynastic history of the kingdom....
Also, yes, I'm apparently still alive. I did carry a slight dent around for a couple of years after the spear incident, and it gave me a huge headache at the time ! It wasn't deliberate, just a jab that went astray. Headshots were supposedly banned by the society I was with at the time; we were Bescarles, so didn't get anything more protective than a large shield.
This is indeed the story of the ancestor of Duke Gregory Brintor, whose ancestors were Kings before that.
Or in this story... how they became Kings.