Forgiveness

The maid, Kalistia, was a woman from a faraway poor village near the Kingdom of Taras, a kingdom located southwest of Althera. The author of Fallen Mages stated that Kalistia used to live with her husband somewhere distant from the main expanse of their village. One day, after Lord Millish noticed her on the village roadside on his way to Taras, he followed her to her home, discovered that she was married to a young man, and decided to kill him to have her for himself.

The truth was that Kalistia wasn't just a maid in the Millish House... Lord Millish had kept her there as a slave and had been sleeping with her whenever he wanted.

Somehow, the lady hadn't gotten the chance — or perhaps hadn't been courageous enough — to speak up and was dying in silence. Many had said that the lords could do as they pleased during the reign of King Halton Roger the Second, and even if she had spoken out, her complaint wouldn't have been considered.