Wait a minute, why did the ABD care that V killed her son?

[Morty]

And that, kids, is why 3E D&D's attempts at realistically simulating the world fall flat. Though to be honest, that's more about people thinking it simulates anything than any actual attempt on its part. But the Commoner class is a good example of something that just has no reason to exist... plus some ideas about history that mostly come from Monty Python.