Rhys Roke

Ser Rhys Roke was the son and heir of Athirius Roke, as well as the second Baron of Nessvelt. A wild and foolhardy youth, he greatly displeased the emperor at the time by wedding the fugitive Lucia de Bar without his permission. The emperor, who bore some unknown (Though evidently severe) grudge against the woman, demanded her capture and considered the marriage legally invalid, striking it from all records and declaring any offspring of the union bastards. This event served as a catalyst for the Taxman's Conspiracy, a plot against the Imperial throne, as well as the creation of the Jackals, a group of Savoyard criminals opposed to the emperor's rule.

In a display of what some would describe as karmic justice, he died some time in the 1550s after slipping and breaking his neck on a monument to John I.