Andew Shammerd was a Lokrenian scholar who was executed for heresy in Mevron at the age of 39 in 179 AE. He is best known for writing the heretical treatise Shammerd's Enchiridion of Mythology, which catalogued the gods of all nations and races both within and peripheral to Lokren, for which he was convicted of heresy by the temple of Aphas for promulgating false gods.

The temple-court ordered Shammerd to destroy all copies of his book, make a public announcement acknowledging the blasphemous and dangerous nature of his studies, and pay a fine of 15,000 gold sovereigns. But though he agreed payment of the exorbitant sum, which would drive him deep into debt for years to come, Shammerd refused to abandon his work or deny the assertions made therein.

He was imprisoned for three years, during which time he continued to rebuff attempts made by the priesthood to force him to disavow his own scholarship. He was then sentenced by the Symbol to be executed, though he spent another four years in prison while the temple of Aphas attempted to have the sentence handed down by the assembly invalidated, claiming it was a temple crime and therefore subject only to temple justice.

After many hearings and further trials before the king to determine who had jurisdiction, the Crown finally sided with the Symbol in the matter, and the Aphasians were ordered to turn Shammerd over to the Gerouget's men. He was hanged in the Great Agora the very next day, whereupon the Thalaman seized his land, goods, and chattels, returning them to the Crown and disenfranchising Shammerd's bereft heirs.

The heretofore unprecedented incident polarised opinion, both in the Symbol (and especially in the Thalankat) and among the people of Mevron more generally, for it was the first time that the nobles and elected tribunes of the Symbol had been allowed by the king to interfere with the supreme right of the temples to act as the sole authorities for justice in cases of temple crimes.