Beru's descendants endured all kinds of tribulation. It became said that all Tiberi died violent deaths. Beru was pushed of the castle wall and either was smashed on the cliffs below or drowned in the ocean. His grandson was bitten by a snake that had taken up its residence in the royal bathtub. In the early eighteenth century King Jonathon III was murdered, and his son, King Caleb, died after falling down a flight of stairs and impaling himself on a broken balustrade. His son, Christopher II was thrown from his horse while racing with his advisers. He cut his forehead, and the doctors were unable to stop the bleeding. Many people said that Christopher's friend, Richard Crusanal, had given him poison to thin his blood. Christopher's infant son, Ellyanus, disappeared three months later, and returned after twenty seven long grueling years under Richard. In the twenty-second year of his reign, he was assassinated by a terrorist out of El Ahir. West Altesea got mad at everyone, and seceded west of Glagnafrita. Ellyanus's stepson, King Josiah, who still ruled eastern Altesea, abdicated two months into his reign and set up a republic. He lived to the ripe age of ninety-four.
