Like his father before him, Jadrek was the Archivist of Rethwellan. He was no more popular with King Raschar, than his father had been with Raschar's father, King Destillion. The Archives had been bespelled by the first king of Rethwellan, a mage of the Leverand School, with an obsession for honesty. The Archives had to be kept-up-to-date, or something very bad (though unspecified) would happen. And once something had been entered into the Archives, it could not be removed or altered in any way. Being scrupulously accurate in their recordings did not make the Archivists much loved by the Monarchs.