The Thebes Family was the previous Lord's maternal family, which was also Rowan's distant relationship.
Mafo and the previous Lord had different mothers, so Mafo definitely did not have good feelings about this family. He was naturally low-key about it though, at least at first, silently manipulating things so the family's heirs perished one by one.
The patriarch of this family was also a powerhouse once, but he had long been ill, and this was exacerbated by the continuous loss, let alone his wife, with a much lower level than his.
The old couple just put themselves in isolation in depression, not caring about the world anymore. They also had anti-slave tokens each, so they really didn't bother with whatever happened with the territory anymore.
A town's land was vast, and their land was far from the residential areas, nobles' or commoners' alike, so it could be said that they had truly detached themselves from the town's affairs.
