Chapter 3, In Which We Encounter Several Other Persons, Many of Them Still Alive, With an Interest in the Fate of the Fallen Star Summary

The eighty-first Lord of Stormhold lay dying and has summoned his sons, living and dead to his bedside to decide who will succeed him. The Lord had hoped that all his sons would be dead except one, to make the situation easier. Secundus, Quintas, Quartus and Sextus are dead, killed by their living brothers, Primus, Tertius and Septimus. The Lord had sired eight children by three wives, and had killed his own brothers in order to become the eighty-first Lord. The Lord asks each of his sons to go to the window and tell him what they see. The...