THERE IS NO RABBIT, ONLY A DEER
...One of the few members of the House of Lords who seems to care about his seat of political power, Duke Hartower is famously both unattractive (he has a crooked nose and strange, patchy skin) and eccentric. He married into the Addison family, because he saved Alinne's father Marcus in a disastrous fire (he took the title of Duke only because his young son was too, well, young to do so, or so he claims). A captain in Sunderland’s army and baron in his own right (the house Fairfax holds the rights to the barony of Chariot's Landing), Eberhard is often weighed down by his duties: he attends every meeting of the House of Lords that he can, and he's quite awful at delegation, preferring to examine his estates on his own as often as possible. Unfortunately, though, his preference for participating in legislation and political games has led to a decline in the family's fortunes. He's a strongly principled but serious man with a propensity for both history and for political maneuvers, and a great faith (inherited from his own family) in the effectiveness of the Old Ways. His family knows him as a loving but distant father who's in over his head when it comes to games of money. Until recent events, he has treated Patrick Addison with annoyed indifference....
