[@Frengo]

Sounds like getting that sword out of the hands of the king will be important to both sides, to the light to get it in the hands of a more competent swordsman and the dark to keep it from cutting into our dark lord.

Divine Empathy makes it very hard for anyone to get away with self serving actions without previous kings having encouraged such behavior. Or Do I misunderstand the power? Also in that paragraph you spell the last name as oakenshielf, thought you might want to touch that up

And yeah they have at least three kids as described in the first post. You may need him to be a tad older... a lot older to accommodate children old enough for combat. Though don't take it up with me probably best to take it up with White Feather sometime later.