Talk:Empire of the Isles/@comment-1500935-20140213171637

Going back to our previous debate on the Kaldwin dynasty, I found this book yesterday while replaying Return to the Tower. It seems to point out that the first Kaldwin to access the Empire's throne was Jessamine's father, Euhorn Kaldwin the First:

''In her father’s day, the Kaldwins were thrust in the limelight despite their distance to the throne, when the former dynasty provided no heirs. A prosperous age followed the Emperor, but his daughter would have different luck.''

I suppose that's interesting enough to be mentioned on the concerned pages, if you agree to it.

Now on a personal guess, I suppose Euhorn was chosen as heir because he was one of the few in the nobility to really care about the people, as it seems he did brought Dunwall into modernity, for example by improving and reinforcing Dunwall's hazardous sewer system, and possibly through the early ages of the whale oil revolution initiated by Roseburrow.