[RPG] [FEI] Part 2.5: Trial of Fredrick Stormreaver and Sarig TithOnanka

[Samuel Knowlton]

The High Court of Lasanar, His Grace, Grand Justiciar Galiard Scarlett, 
presiding.

"....in which, so it please the Court, some forty-seven years ago, the 
precedent of Mildred Sarbonnes v. Lasanar established with certain 
restrictions both legal and practical the procedural course of action taken 
by a State in which the party accused of treason doth bear utterly the 
responsibility of dis-proving said claim wherein the claim be made by the 
Grand Justiciar or Prime Minister, as opposed to a standard charge as made 
by a High Justice, ranked nobleman, or other Minister so-empowered--" droned 
High Justice Fibbern T. Gibbet.

Galiard scratched his wig, which not only did not fit, having been made not 
even for Grand Justiciar Aethius but his predecessor, Grand Justiciar 
Fromir, whose head apparently was an order of magnitude larger than 
Galiard's, but also caused an untoward amount of itching.

"...but may it please Your Honor," rebutted High Justice Hoyt Winden Bahg, 
"reflecting back some *eighty-two* years past to the case of Tobias Griegg 
v. City of Colasan, pre-Lasanarian Common Law, in which an elected noble 
who-so willingly departs his station in accordance with the will of the 
nobles of the realm, shall not unduly be punished unless a clear and present 
danger to the State can be proven by the State..."

"Call for present persuasion, non-binding, Grand Justiciar excused," 
interrupted Galiard, who had been trying without success to set the room on 
fire with his mind, so as to propel its contents outside and, more 
importantly, away from him. "On the matter of ending the exile of Ser Sarig, 
now High Marshal of Nighthelm."

The High Justices cast their votes.

"On the matter of ending the exile of Ser Fredrick, presently of Soliferum."

The High Justices cast their votes.

The Grand Justiciar tabulated the colored pebbles in the basket that was 
passed to him, making a mental note to find a more prestigious means of 
casting votes that perhaps did not involved colored pebbles.

"Ser Sarig: three in favor, five against," reported Galiard. "Ser Fredrick, 
five in favor, three against. No unanimity. Resolution left to the judgment 
of the Grand Justiciar. Resolution is at this juncture postponed, pending 
additional testimony. Court is adjourned."