Kingsmen/Crowns

Lords and Liars

Godkin/Godborn: Mortals born of allegedly divine blood. True Godborn are said to be a demi-god, possessing a divine parent. These Godborn have ruled over Thrace for thousands of years, all through the line of ___. Though as the line has progressed, the divine blood has thinned, thus the term Godkin refers to more recent emperors who have only been related to their divine heritage and rarely possess the gifts of a true Godborn. 

Trained by Court Mages, Masters of swords and sorcery
Framed for murder.

The Emperor is dead. His elite enforcers were framed for the murder.

-The emperor never produced any heirs. No divine blood, no throne.
-A Godborn was discovered, born in a distant village. The Emperor's elite guardsmen, the Crown's Caveliers, were sent to retrieve the child and its mother to be elevated to the palace and raised to inherit the throne. However, upon returning, the Caveliers discovered that the Emperor had been murdered, the murder weapon being that of a Cavelier's own sword. 
-Framed for the murder, the Caveliers are forced to flee with the child and mother, while pursued by the guardsman, the wider law enforcement who report to the church rather than the Emperor. The church, being the vessel of the divine, operate the municipal government. 

The bells tolled throughout the capital, citizens clambering for a look at the heir. But the Emperor had produced no such heir, the Godkin failing to secure the divine lineage, which meant upon his death, death to the entire Empire.