Talk:Crown of the Old Iron King/@comment-174.27.200.174-20140830054305

Hm.. Spoilers.

Thos DLC gives more backstory to Veldstadt than anything else. (which is surprising; I thought it'd mess up my Iron King theories)

So, theory on what happened between Raime (Fume Knight) and Veldstadt. Raime is mentioned on the Rebel's Greatshield as being either Vendrick's left or right hand man, the other being Veldstadt. Shortly after the Iron King turned away from the Giant War a woman, named Nadalia, came to Vendrick and Nashandra, searching for the Iron King, whom she wished to marry.

Raime immediately became infatuated with her, and offered to lead her to the Iron Kingdom, unaware of its collapse. Vendrick bid that both Raime and Veldstadt go, as the Iron Kingdom was collapsing upon itself.. Figuratively and literally. Eventually they made it to Brume Tower, the King nowhere in sight. (or unrecognizable in his demonic form) As Nadalia began to get discouraged Raime suggested they search for the King's Throne Room, which he knew was at the bottom of the Tower, as that's where Vendrick offered a Lord Soul. (there's also a second throne room at the top, but..) So, they make it down there to see the King's Crown of Power resting on his throne. Nadalia picked up the crown, and in despair, let out a spell that shot throughout the Tower, burning everything, and turning much of it to ash, and summoning the Ash Idols, which bore Nadalia's likeness.

Veldstadt, seeing the demonic form of Nadalia, immediately attacked it, killing it. Raime picked up the soul fragment from the Idol's ashes. Immediately he grew angry at Veldstadt, believing him to have killed Nadalia, and attacked. Veldstadt escaped, and Raime was deemed a traitor. A small squadron of soldiers were sent to Brume Tower to destroy Raime, but were killed by an Ash Idol, which were the fragments of Nadalia's soul. (as her spell made it split) They barely deafeated it, though the last soldier died shortly after. Nadalia's true corpse, nearly completely buried in ash was found by Raime on the Iron King's throne, the Crown of Power resting on her lap. Raime promised he would not let anyone take the Crown, in Nadalia's memory. (sources; -Rebel's Greatshield Description -Soul of the Fume Knight's description -Soul of Nadalia, Bride of Ash's description -Dead Royal Soldiers at the beginning of Brume Tower. -Dead Ash Idol at the beginning of Brume Tower -Old King's Soul)