The people closest to the sorcerer-king are his templars. He trusts none of them or all of them, depending on his mood. They call themselves the Honest Seers to impress their loyalty and reliability upon their master, ensuring that they have no secrets from his majesty.
They might show fawning devotion to the sorcererking, but they are not as upright as they profess. They plot and scheme against each other continually. Alliances form and shatter with regularity as they jockey to gain the sorcerer-king’s favor and diminish their rivals in his rheumy eyes. Few templars last long in Eldaarich, since they spend half their time orchestrating assassination attempts against their enemies.
One segment of templars stands as an exception. Despite their surroundings, the High Templars show unexpected poise and sanity. It is through their influence that Eldaarich has softened its position to the outer world, and that change has freed these templars to escape from the madness and manage the city-state from the relative security and sanity found in the client villages. Some whisper that these High Templars intend to remove Daskinor from power, but accusations like these fly all the time.