Tristan Hughes

So they've built up, they've done the sort of preliminaries for a campaign that's going to happen the next campaign season.

And it's ready to go.

Which makes sense.

Where he's drinking too much and falls ill.

And then there are all sorts of rumors at the time and subsequently of poison and various theories as to how it could be delivered.

You do get a sense that many people are really unhappy with how things are, but don't really know what they want.

But there is no alternative to Alexander.

Roxanne is pregnant this time, but they don't know whether she'll carry to term.

Would it be a boy?

It turns out to be.

But there isn't anybody.

There isn't an adult, you know, even an adolescent.

You could have a guardian for a while and you could think of it as a viable alternative.

So they are faced with a problem.

So it's a bit like Philip's murder.

You think with Alexander, well, he might have been murdered because some people might just have felt, we really, I can't cope with this anymore.

We've got to move on.

On the other hand, nobody has that clear a plan of what they're going to do afterwards.

And he's, you know, he's led a fairly wild lifestyle and people fall ill in the age world, particularly people who've moved through so many different environments, become exposed to so many different sorts of germs along the way.

Yes, they're tough in many respects, but there's still that one thing that can just prove fatal.