HANDEGG: a one page setting

Count Leopold was never the sort to be accused of wisdom nor kindness. He abused his people, overworked the fields, betrayed his men, and to his many wives was a veritable bluebeard of an ogre.  He languishes in his fortress now, old as dust and vile as a putrid fungus. No company save for the wailing cries of his many children, malformed gluttons born from his psyche rather than any lover’s womb.…