The Ithen are a half-elf noble family that has speared form the city of Thaliost to the high reaches of the church of the Sliver Flame, the shadows Royal Eye of Aundair and the Warden of the Woods. The Ithen line started in Thaliost before the kingdom of Galifar. They started off as a rich merchants in the city, controlling the shipping and textiles. The house became ennobled when the Galifar the 1st conquered Thaliost. The house slowly grew over the centuries until 838YK when the regent of Aundair gave away large tracts in the eastern planes that will become The Eldeen Reaches. The leader of the line and holder of the noble title, Baron Daren ir’Ithen of Thaliost had to two children and his youngest of his children, Kara ir‘Ithen , saw the tracts of land as a way to get out of the city life and in to the nature she loved as well as giving a change of getting her own title instead of fading away as her bother lead the house. She bought land between the edge of The Towering Wood and what will become Havenglen, hindered a small band of rangers and used one of her family’s ship to sail to the eastern planes. As she exploring her new lands for a places to start building a manor for herself she found a Gatekeeper Observatory on a cliff. Seeing the beauty of the ruins and feeling the magic of nature in the places she built her manor around it. Kara spent 15 years learning the ways of a druid as well as creating field, orchards and vineyards with her lands. As she set up her estates he father die and her brother came to power. He and Kara never lot along and he thought that Kara she be giving most of the money she was getting to the family, meaning himself, but he also did not like what his sister was doing within the ruins she had found. After he had demanded most of were hard made money and publicly installed her, she broke tires with her brother. This event created the first two branches of the House ir’Ithen, with the Thaliost branch believe the other stole family land bought with family money and the other believe that the Thaliost branch is try to steal there land, try to destroy them in public and installed there druidic believes. The two branches continued to grow and gain power. The next event that change the house would also shape the history of two nations. Tensions started to flare in the Thaliost branch when Baron Daven ir’Ithen of Thaliost die and left leadership of the line and the title to his twin sons, Tharden and Aven. With the political storm browning over the secession to the kingdom Galifar the twin started to fight over who they will support. Tharden wanted Wrogar because they were Aundairians and they believed that Mishann should rule but Aven was a follower of the Sliver Flame and believe that they should stand with Thalin because he had the divine right to the throne. The attack on Thaliost triggered the brake. As the invaders entered the city Aven and his follower join the attack in the hopes to gain power in Thrane. In the meantime Tharden and his followers got what ever they could get there hand on and fled the city but several where cut down my there own family. Aven was not disappointed after the Tharne won, he was reward with land of his former friends as well as getting an estate in Shadukar and the title of Count. He did have much time to enjoy this because he die in the attack on Shadukar. He left his land to his son and daughter, Dairden and Jolrana. The two had very different views on the Church becoming rule of the country. Jolrana believed that the church had its place but not as ruler of the nation which makes her a Throneholder, some see herself as Queen Jolrana that she is named after and her bother hopes she meets the same end. Dairden became a bishop in the Church of the Sliver Flame. They made an agreement with each other to split the land and not talk to each other. This is not say they do not drag each other thought the mud. This subdivide the Thrane branch with Countess Jolrana ir’Ithen-ir’Marktaros in Tholiat and Dairden ir’Ithen-ir’Garthen leading his branch form Flamekeep. As the Thrane line gained in power the Aundair branch was regrouping and gaining in power. Many of the Tharden followers and himself made it on to some of the family ships. They made it to Fairhaven and stated to regroup. Tharden did not lead them in there regroup because he died in the counterattack to regain Thaliost. His money was left to his daughter Raven ir’Ithen. Raven felt the same way as her father so she joined the Royal Eye and set up a network of agents at her family ancient villa-manor on the shoes of Lake Galifar. Most of the mission she gives out has some thing to do with Thrane But she has started to move in to the Eldeen Reaches as well. She also owns shipping in the white roof district in Fairhaven and is closely related to House Lyrandar. She believe that she is the right heir to all the land held by the other braches.
Great read Elrodian, a nice mix of church politics vs. state politics, ugly family fortunes and greed.
But a minor request please. A little paragraph formatting would make it easier to read rather than a single chunk of amazonian rainforest text :P .
Thank you my the way i have it was a short run thought i will get a great detail laterLooking forward to more stuff, keep it coming!
The Aundairian branch of the House ir’Ithen is the main and oldest branch of the ir’Ithen line. The Branch is based in an ancient villa-manor on Lake Galifar and controls land all over Aundair. The leader of the branch is Baroness Raven ir’Ithen is one of the most powerful woman in Aundair and many see her as the heir to the House ir’Ithen‘s holdings and heirlooms. Baroness Raven has rebuilt the branch over the years to become one of the strongest noble branches in Aundair. The branches holdings have grown form the one villa-manor to estates in Fairhaven and Stromhome, vineyards, orchards and farms across Aundair, magical item shops and shipping in Fairhaven. Her power is not only in the world of land and money (but it real helps), she is also a wizard of great power and is a member of the Arcane Congress. She is very loyal to the Queen and when her father die she join the Royal Eye. Today she is an elite agent with her own agents and she only answer to the Queen.
Raven has no children unlike her great ante and two cuisines. She believe that she is to young to have children and she does not want to bring them in to the world only to be manipulate by the other branches. That does not mean that she will not do it. She does have a lover but few would guess how he is or what he does. Her lover is Solen ir’Darvy, a half-elf King’s Citadel agent from Breland. They meet when she was on a mission to enter the King’s Citadel’s headquarter in Sharn. The two governments do not know that there agents are in love with agents from different nations. Solen lives in to Passage but he spends most of his time with Raven. The two do not interfere with there missions even if it has something to do with there nation. Raven is the only one in her family that knows about Solen and the three leaders of the other branches would love to use this against her.
Raven does not sit around with Solen and go over how much money she has and rant about how she is the heir the ir’Ithen line. Spends six months in Fairhaven at court and the other half the year, she spends that are on her time between her villa and Arcanix. From her villa and her estate in Fairhaven she gives missions to her agents. She also use her trading ship that are headed to Breland thought the Lake Galifar to move Aundairian troops in to the Eldeen reaches. Raven has a lot of political power and need or want and anything she will either have it or know how does. She can be a very helpful patron and one of the most powerful enemies you will ever have
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House of ir’Ithen has been one line for over a 1000 years. The first brake in the house happened when Baroness Kara ir‘Ithen bought a tract of land between The Towering Wood and what will become Havenglen. She hindered a group of rangers and sailed down the Wynarn river. As she exploring her new lands for a places to start building a manor for herself, she found a Gatekeeper Observatory on a cliff. Seeing the beauty of the ruins and feeling the magic of nature in the places she built her manor around it. Kara spent 15 years learning the ways of a druid as well as creating field, orchards and vineyards with her lands and hunting praetors in the wood.
As the war raged in the Five Nations, Kara gathered druid tomes, artifacts, rare plants and watching over her land and those people and land around her land. When she was looking for tomes and artifacts in Gatekeeper ruins in Towering Wood she came upon a druid of the warden of the wood named Farden Greenwood. After a period, of fighting and friendship, the two fell in love with each other and got married. When the year 956 YK came, Kara and Farden where some of the most active leaders in the battles. After the reaches got there independents the Ithen family “settled down” and had four children.
Kara is a woman that sits between two world and does not totally fit in to either one. She is a druid of some power, with a love for woods, fields, animals and plants. But she is also a noblewoman with money, land and a love for politics and there intrigues. Unlike most people in the Reaches she is always looking at what the Five Nations are doing. From the movements of foodstuff, that she has a stack in, to the new magic in play in the Five Nations. But she also keeps an eye at home as well watching the actions of the druids sects. Her goal is to get all the House of ir’Ithen land in order to protect it and the animal that live there. However she does not know what three of her four children are hiding.
Her oldest son follows in her foot steps. But her other two sons and daughter have moved far away from that path. Her second oldest son has join the druid sect the Greensigers sect, which his parents see as a sect full of crazy people. But Her two younger children have done worse things, her last son is a member of the Children of Winter. He stays away form the family most of the time and he lives rooms on the far side of the manor where he keeps is books, bugs and bones. Her daughter is not unlike her in anyway, her name is Avener and she is transmuter that is a worshiper of The Dragon Below. She became a transmuter when she found a daelkyr ruins in the woods. She lives even farther away form all of her family. She works on spells and transmutes in her rooms of the manor and plots on how she can gain control of the Ithen lands in the hopes of gaining money and power to work on the her transmuting and to gain artifacts and spells of the Daelkyr. If anyone ever found out about this they could use her to destroy her mother.
Jolrana is a rich and powerful noble and it shows. Her black hair always as some luxurious item pined in it and she can be seen in a beautiful gown and outfit. Most people see this and think that she is a rich noble living off her father’s wealth and does not know anything, but there are far from right. She when to the Library of Korranberg and was top of here class but she is not all looks and books. She trained with some of the best fighters in Thrane and she can not be found with out at least a dagger with her at all time. Jolrana believe that Diani ir'Wynarn should rule Thrane although she believes in the Silver Flame she think that the corruption in the Church has lead it away from it’s path.
Jolrana is married to a low leveled noble named Thdaren ir’Garthen. Thdaren married her because he thought that she would be easy to control and he would get to run her money and land but he was mistaken. The tables turned and Jolrana got control of his few holdings and then sent him to live in a small country estate in southern Thrane. She does not see him at all and the only reason that she married him was to get people off her back to get married and gives her time to look at some men with out them trying to get her favor.
Daieden is very different then Jolrana. He lives in the Cathedral of the Silver Flame with his wife Marden ir’Marktaros and there 17 year old son Vardith. He is a traditional bishop and he does not go far form Flamekeep. He lets his son Vardith run his estates out side the church. This is not the best move because Vardith does not agree with his grandfather when he turned on Aundair. This gives Raven the chances to get Daiedens land for herself.
Actives
Jolrana own tea shops around Thrane and export tea to other nations around the world. This business is a front for Thronholder bases and the money is used for missions and noble how have lost they money and land for supporting the Queen in the open
Daieden wants to become apart of the Council of Cardinals. In order to do this he combined knowledge of the Cathedrals holy library, the library of Korranberg and Blood of Vol Genealogical Records to find one of the last descendents of Tira Miron. He is will do any thing to get her to marry his son and give birth to a baby, making him the Grandfather of the Descendent Tirs Miron and making his line on of the most powerful in Thrane. He believe this will make the Council will invite him in with out Question.
There Father was rewarded for turning on Aundair and leaded the Thrane to victory in there attack on Thaliost, with land in Thrane and Estates in Flamekeep and Shaukar. The Two wish to rebuild Shaukar in the hopes of getting back heirlooms and to rule the city. For Dairden it is one more step to become apart of the Council of Cardinals and Jolrana Hope this will give her Queen a stronghold and a base to lunch a campaign to take the country.