Reynold Waltham was a senator in Andris until 425, when he was murdered at the end of the first Blue Moon Festival. The circumstances around his assassination all seemed to point to Zexe as culprit, but soon it became known that it was none other than fellow Senator Lancaster who had plotted the crime, as well as the attempt to frame the Royal Guard of Mirith. The death of Waltham marks the begining of what became known as the Lancaster Wars.