King Vale Canis

The King is old, a human nearing his ninth decade, and notoriously cynical and belligerent. In his life he has seen a tragic spree of assassination and disappearances of his own family, till only he, one son live; gone to causes assuredly not natural are two wives and two sons. Gone to the predation of the Immortal Red Movriad is his only daughter, Lucillia Canis. He is suspicious of his son, who in some ways stood to gain from the loss of their siblings and mothers. He is suspicious of his neighbors, Having fought with Taelei in a war longer ago than most humans have lived, and having always suspected the previous lord of Lote to desire his lands. He was suspicious of the Empire who put so much of the burden of the war with Taelei on his province, and there he was proven right. Now, vindicated in his pessimism, all the gates of Kanese stay shut, its armies patrol its borders constantly under order to turn all away with whatever force necessary, and the only thing to leave the kingdom has been a constant stream of threats and curses.

Vale would be succeeded by his son, Prince Viscer Canis.