Believers in the Loptyr Church that remained even years after the war have been rumoured to have been creating a rebellion against the current royal family and small “incidents” have started to occur in a few places throughout Grannvale that imply Occult activity. The worst occurs while the King, Seliph, is far from home on a political voyage. Leaving his wife and young daughter at the Grannvale palace.
A Dark Mage of this insurgence has managed to infiltrate the castle by being recently hired as a new court Mage.
Not wanting to lose her family she had created for herself after the war, Queen Ishtar nearly destroys the entire palace of the Grannvale royal family to protect her daughter once the insurgence manages to take the castle via the court mage betraying them in their own home.
Announcing that she would sooner turn this palace into ash and take it out brick by brick by hand than allow her daughter to be taken. She fights until she is ensured her daughter and the servants have cleared the castle then, nearly does exactly as she says, and uses so much of her magic and Mjolnir that the castle collapses in on itself during the fight with a large group of dark mages that appears and the dark shadowy figure with them.
Queen Ishtar is Presumed dead upon the discovery of the tattered castle. If not by the overuse of the holy tomb itself than by the explosion. The area near the palace and the palace itself is now well kept and taken over by the cultists amd said to be too dangerous these days to wonder near.
