Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folks; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle. Three witches gathered on a lonely heath. A king cruelly murdered his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. A child heir & the crown of the kingdom both missing. The omens are not auspicious for the new incumbent for whom ascending this tainted throne is a more complicated affair than you might imagine particularly when the blood on your hands just won't wash off & you're facing a future with knives in it...