A Tragedy from the Anderfels

== A Tragedy from the Anderfels ==
There has always been disparity between the classes in the Anderfels. The poor are destitute while the rich nobles live in plenty and yet the lower classes are expected to lay down in puddles rather than allow a noble to get their feet wet. 
But there was once a man who thought differently. A noble who took pity on the lower classes, who chose to step down from the nobles. This was of course unheard of, still is. 
He was shunned by the nobility and was stripped of all titles and along with his wife and two daughters he moved to the lower class. 
Things were fine for the family at first, they still retained some of their money and managed to get by. However one day the lower class heard, they heard that the family were nobles, and things changed. No one would speak to them, they became shunned by the lower class as well as the nobles. They would walk down the street and curses would be muttered under the breath of every person nearby. They were completely isolated. 
Then one day the mother didn’t return from the shop she worked at, her body was found later in an alley behind the store.
A mob of the peasants later drove them out of their house and burned it down. The family had no money, no power and no one they could call a friend. Although they tried to get back to the nobility from where they had come, they were refused even a meeting.
And so the family starved. And with starvation came hatred. One of the daughters, desperate to blame someone for their family’s woes blamed her father. And so one day she killed him, cut off his head and brought it to the noble palace in a desperate attempt to regain her lost status. She was ten at the time.
But she too was refused back into the noble fold.
No one knows what became of the sisters, some say that they died there on the street, destitute, only clinging to a memory of when they had everything. Others say that they moved out into the woods, becoming witches and kidnapping children who don’t truly appreciate what they have.  
-A popular short story in Rivain, unknown origin.