The Imperial Knights, once called the loyal knights of the Altringen royal family, were thoroughly suppressed along with the disgrace of being branded traitors. Not the Imperial Knights who fled east, but the families they belonged to.
Their blood relatives desperately claimed innocence, insisting they had nothing to do with the Imperial Knights, but the reason those families had been selected for the Imperial Knights in the first place was precisely for this moment: they were chosen from noble houses that had been eating away at Beren.
The families of the Imperial Knights who had benefited from this arrangement were riddled with all manner of corruption. And this became the decisive justification that brought about their downfall. The Judicial Department rapidly rose to become the most powerful governing body.
Of course, not every Imperial Knight family was purged.
"Your Grace! Please grant honorable treatment to the fallen vice commander and his men."
