Artist Trampled on Palace Road

FASTHELD - Amalarde Thrush, a painter of some note, has succumbed to injuries suffered when he was trampled by Emperor's Bladesmen on horseback, galloping down Palace Road toward the Lightholder Crossroads. It was dark at the time of the accident, Blademaster Hartnek Lomasa reported, and the young artist bore no torch as he walked up the road toward Fastheld Keep. The Bladesmen didn't see him until it was too late. They took him to the Lightholder Tavern, where healers did all they could but to no avail.