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It was common knowledge that the King Regis of Lucia was an Alpha Prime, the strongest of his generation. At the tender age of eighteen he’d gone to war armed only with his senses and the formative pack that would later grow to be one of the most feared and respected packs in the land.  Lucia’s Crowns Guard was the old school, bound in tradition and duty stretching back to the forgotten days of legend.  Regis’s Kingsglaive however was Regis’s personal pack.  He dictated who entered it, and while the Crowns Guard was officially Lucia’s pack, the Kingsglaive was Regis’s personal pack.  No one, not even the council, could gainsay him.  It was tradition after all, outdated and nearly never used tradition, but tradition nonetheless. 

    But it wasn’t just tradition, but Law, enshrined from the first Monarchs of Lucia, that any who would want to rule on the throne, would have to be bonded to a guide.  For the most part it worked well, with Kings and Queens bonding, and in most cases, marrying their guides.  As with any bloodline, there was some notable exceptions - King Tacet for example hadn’t been a Sentinel, and had married a Galahad wise-woman to tighten the bonds between the two countries.  King Caecus had been in so in love with the Oracle Queen of the time that they had both shared a mutual consort-guide.  Queen Tange in an interesting turn of events was often viewed as being a guide some centuries later, albeit one who suppressed and hid her abilities.  She had nearly ended the line of Caleum, but instead chose her brother’s only child as her heir, and both had pretended that she was a norm in order to maintain her rule on the throne.  

    King Regis on the other hand was well known to be a Sentinel, and one of some note, with a equally skilled guide.  However, the Queen was dead and had been for long enough that the council members could no excuse it as mere mourning.  The King needed a guide.  And it wasn’t just the King, but his own shield had lost his guide in the attack that had killed the queen trying to shield the queen from the assassins.