[quote=@Flagg]
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Good point. That whole scene is more window dressing than set-in-stone. Also, the wizard might be wrong and members of the guard may have survived.

Bodyguards of the prince are def playable. How characters survived the coup will be a part of the CS process. 
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Perhaps the prince and other royals directing the story coule be co-GMs of sort :hmm