Yes. [It comes out rather flatly.] One I saw with my own eyes. He killed his father to seat himself on the throne, and then he tore his own country to pieces within a year and died.

But my homeland has it not so far back in its history, too--an empire ruled by men who made their pact with a dark god and slaughtered anyone who tried to rise against them--it took divine intervention for him to be thrown down, ultimately.