Talk:Aelinore/@comment-24.217.163.131-20130910192210/@comment-5166842-20130910203139

Ah, okay.

There are lorehounds that can explain it better than I can, but the gist of it is that the Duke was/is an Arisen who took The Dragon's offer to flee The Final Battle in exchange for being given rule of the land. So that means he sacrificed the woman he loved--who was evidently named Lenore--because of his cowardice, and he's been living with that for however long it's been.

So his attempted murder of Aelinore can be seen as his trying to rid himself of the reminder of his guilt, or to silence her because he's losing his mind and has confused her with Lenore, or both.