The Champions and Captains of the Steele Earldom
The past of the Steele family, even in Kyros's past life, was quite brutal. They were all massacred. If not for the Shaman who later became Mezal's father-in-law and who managed to redirect the curse, the Steele family would have really died out.
But even then, the slipping of Destiny's subtle tricks moved.
It was only then that Mezal remembered how the attacks against Branze and Aron were only stopped through the deaths of some of their vassal forces who loyally served them.
"The Steele family has always had loyal men die. It's as if Destiny was secretly cursing those who grew close to us."
Branze remembered his friend, whose family now blamed him for his death.