He ran afoul of item 19 on the Evil Overlord list: "I will not have a daughter. She would be as beautiful as she was evil, but one look at the hero's rugged countenance and she'd betray her own father."

While it is not quiiiite what happened, the principle is sound.

Also, I somehow missed your earlier post in the thread, so this is great, and may be getting ganked for NPC purposes as well...
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Lime2K
The One True Evil Overlord