@Jrztt The maid had it coming. She was the one behind the dagger and the chandelier, and she planned to poison the wine too. Lamia and her father knew it was her, and the duke called her out and warned her, but she refused to flee under the premise that she has to protect her child.
I feel sorry for her, but her and whoever hired her started it first. I don't approve of Lamia and her dad forcing her to drink poison, but I can see that by doing this they were trying to threaten the vassals from Kioren as to postpone the outbreak of a civil war.
A lot of people don't get these important details and don't understand the characters' intentions - hence they hate them and say a lot mean stuff.
What if the author reads them? It just saddens me.