Chapter 58: A Foul Play

''What is known of Jarl Mildew the Vicious mostly comes from secondary sources—journal entries from the Hooligans, observations from King MacBeth and his court, and others—due to the fact that the man was apparently a recalcitrant loner and hermit, only one step above a formalized outcast from the entirety of the Hooligan tribe. A multiple divorcee and rumored to have had various unsavory habits, he was generally ostracized by the community by his early adulthood. This includes having been formally outcast from his birth clan (Hofferson) in AD 976 and having been forced to take a new name. ''

''The only reason why he had not been entirely banished from the tribe decades previously, according to the general consensus from Hooligan accounts, was that he was one of Berk's most effective and lethal dragon slayers during the last decades of the Dragon War. According to the records, he was surpassed in dragonslaying only by a handful of his contemporaries, chief among them his younger brother, Rikard clanhead Hofferson. Indeed, the historical records speaks volumes as to how unpleasant a personality he had—and how many restitution payments he had to pay from his winnings—that someone with his substantial kill record was relegated to the fringes of the tightly knit tribe, rather than being feted and toasted as one of their elites.''

—Corpus Historiae Berkiae, 1396

Foreshadowing
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Epigraph Tie-In

 * The epigraph is a brief biography on Mildew. The chapter shows the Hooligans wondering about Mildew's whereabouts.
 * The epigraph mentions Mildew was one of the tribe's best dragon-slayers. The chapter shows the Hooligans learning about the poison he used to reach that status but before they made the connection.

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