Duke Standish

Duke Standish is a resident of Mineral Town. The husband of Manna Standish, he supports his wife's bid for the position of Mayor of Mineral Town in the political war called the Game of Towns. He has one daughter, Aja Standish. He runs the Standish Vineyard with his wife where he employs Cliff Barnes. Boorish and cruel, the villagers of Mineral Town fear Duke having control of the Town and Valley through his wife. He does have allies, however. He is good friends with Aldermen Doug Haverford and is allied with Saibara Bellamy who believes that Manna is, by law, the rightful mayor.

Game of Towns
Duke is verbally abusive to everyone in town including his wife. He is physically abusive towards his daughter. He spends most of the beginning trying to strongarm his wife into the Mayor position, asserting it as part of law. Later, however, when it is discovered that neither Manna nor Anna are the true daughters of Edward Starling, he panics and leads an army to take the mayorship by force. He leads his army into the Wood, coming across the home of Gotz Williams. While in the Wood, he sees a Mukumuku, horrified. While stealing provisions from Gotz's home, he hears rustling and attacks, only to be horrified to find that he killed Sally Williams, Gotz's daughter. When he realizes that Maggie Williams has witnessed him killing her daughter, he kills her too.

Duke camps out in the Wood until Thomas Moore decides to extend peace, promising to pardon Duke for his crimes if he votes to make Thomas mayor. This angers Gotz, but Duke agrees and is pardon. Duke wanders into the Wood later to see if he can spot the Mukumuku only to find Gotz who drives a pitchfork through his throat into a tree and beats his head until Duke dies. After killing Duke, Gotz flees to Forget-Me-Not Valley.