Tall and strong, dark-haired and fair of skin, grey-eyed and graceful, Morthond's Prince was cunning but not particularly bright.Arador (S."Noble Lord") led a cloistered and outwardly grief-stricken life, one colored by the controversies surrounding his rise to power.Young Prince Arador's disinterest in the life of his small realm had accentuated local disunity and spawned unsettling suspicions and apathy. Although the villages were supposed to bring their civil cases to the Prince of Morthond, the Prince shunned his duty, so most of the practical judicial burden rested in the hands of the various town councils and guild boards.Actually, the local folk were not surprised that Prince Arador was incompetant. A vain, arrogant young man, he was never his father's first choice as heir (House Mo