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Murder, Madness, and Eric XIV

Noble Blood

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The Story of Royal Madness

The trope of royal madness is common and recurring, both in ry and in popular culture. A few writers have suggested that it actually might be the pressures and privileges of being a royal itself that causes a mind to teeter away from sanity. Eric was an excellent student, a quick study in languages, history and math. He also learned astrology, a fund mental tool in any monarch's arsenal when it came to trying to predict the future.

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