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My name is Jamie and this is Episode 32.

Atholred.

We're absolutely FORPED.

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Elderman Elfridge of Hampshire was out.

An Elderman Athle weird the chronicler was in.

He would now be the King's Chief Counselor.

And he would be supported by his son, Athomar, as well as the King's Uncle, High Reef

or Dwarf of Devon and the King's Mother, Elfrith, the Dowager Queen.

And as for the King's Old Council, well with the exception of Elfridge who appears to

have been too big to fail, they were all dead.

It was the most hostile of hostile takeovers.

When Elfridge had taken power years earlier, we saw his extended family flexing their

newfound power and seizing incredible amounts of wealth.

But now that there's been a regime change, it was Athle weird and his families turned

to flex.

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