History is not a novel, but often it is more dramatic than any fiction.
Because history does not need to consider the narrative arc: the setup, the confrontation, the turn, and the resolution.
Many once-insurmountable and awe-inspiring figures have had their exits filled with irony and absurdity.
Take, for instance, the great king who died of suffocation after breaking his shinbone lifting a heavy cauldron or the philosopher who was killed by a turtle falling on his head during a seaside stroll, or even the Pope who was thrown out a window for sleeping with someone else's wife...
And now, Hirodod, plummeting from the skies at breakneck speed.
This famously notorious heretic of the Silver Moon Church had single-handedly established the Blood Moon Association, causing countless lords in the Western Territories to live in constant fear. Numerous enemies wanted him dead, yet until just moments ago, he had been perfectly alive.
