| abstract | - A son of Protector John II, Benjamin was the heir apparent to the Protectorship when the Faithful launched their attempted coup against the Grayson government in the opening act of the Civil War. While Protector John, fifty-three Steadholders and their heirs were killed in the surprise attack, Benjamin managed to escape the Steadholder's Hall, covered by the last living armsmen of the murdered leaders of Grayson, who fought alongside Protector John himself to the last man. As Mayhew Steading was immediately occupied by the Faithful, Benjamin was left both without his Steading and without the support of the Mayhew Guard. Instead, he fled to Mackenzie Steading, where he would rally the Moderates under his leadership and begin to assemble an army which would fight the Faithful for control of Grayson for fourteen years. (HH4, HH5)
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