Lord Aslom was the director of the royal military academy of Arburg, where he used his power and influence to block the advancement of anyone not of high nobility. his bigoted, narcissistic, and nepotistic behavior, combined with his embezzling of the academies endowments lead to the eventual bankruptcy closure and his sentencing as a traitor.
He pushed his eldest son Bishan Aslom into the head of the Timeless Tower Mages