Redreef/Vassals
The following information concerns NPC Vassals of House Redreef.
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House Blackreef
Capsule Bio
House Blackreef is an offshoot of House Redreef. Nearly 300 years ago, a marriage between Redreef and Blackshore nobles led to a power struggle over succession within House Redreef, and the losing side left to become the Abandoned tribe called House Blackreef. After centuries of violent animosity, Redreef brought Blackreef to heel, crushing them until they had no sane option but to relent and rejoin their kin, being made to give up their lives as shav raiders and become... farmers. House Blackreef's domain is a hilly cove called Blackreef Beach, at the center of which is the Ebonhold, a small castle.
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Baroness Melora Blackreef "When someone says 'I love you,' they merely flatter their own vanity." |
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Lord Palamedes Blackreef "There are two tales that every man feels the most: how they've loved, and how they've failed." |
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Lady Morgana Blackreef "Hold on to nothing, and it won't let you down." |
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Lady Annowre Blackreef "Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson." |
House Hollowheart
Capsule Bio
House Hollowheart is a cadet barony created out of a distant branch of the Redreef family tree (their Baroness is Ember and Marina's fifth cousin, once removed). While never a particular power player in Redreef family politics, the future Hollowhearts were loyal to Ember and Marina during the Redreef civil war, and quietly laundered silver to feed their army. As a family line, the Hollowhearts are renowned for their skill with economics and accountancy. The connotations of their self-chosen house name are a point of familial pride, just like their ruthlessness with budgets and ledgers. They are not a family that cares about being liked. They are a family that cares about making money. Their domain is Hollowheart Isle, a small, forested island less than half a day from Redreef Shores by sail, situated perfectly to act as a waystation for various trade routes between the Lyceum and the northern Isles.
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Baroness Artesia Hollowheart "Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price." |
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Lord Vilmos Hollowheart "War is a business. It always has been." |
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Lord Nestor Hollowheart "A sweet smile and a soft word usually have their desired effect." |
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Burchilda Baynard "We all have the hope that if we live and are good, the gods would permit us to be pirates." |
House Skinner
Capsule Bio
House Skinner is a mirror of the story of Redreef itself. For generations going back hundreds of years, the Skinners have sailed in Redreef's navy, and just as a Darkwater Count awarded a loyal sailor the newly-created Redreef Shores, so too is this cadet barony the reward for another loyal sea captain. Redreef historians have found extremely convenient records that point to the new Baron Skinner having Blackreef ancestry, which in turn distantly connects him to Redreef by blood, but some quarters do make note of just HOW conveniently timed this discovery was. The Skinners are great friends to have, and terrible enemies. Family lore states that their name goes back some seven or eight hundred years, when the first family patriarch was given the last name 'Skinner' by a Thrax ship captain because he was the best in the fleet at flaying prisoners to be put on the crosses. Accordingly, the Skinners' barony is the small, X-shaped (if you squint and tilt your head) Cross Harbor, where local industry centers around shipbuilding.
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Baron Stone Skinner "He who did well in war earns the right to begin doing well in peace." |
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Lady Charity Skinner "She who feared that she would not succeed sat still." |
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Lady Prudence Skinner "What's the use of dying in a ward surrounded by groaning incurables? Wouldn't it be much better to throw a party, take poison, and depart for the other world to the sound of violins, surrounded by lovely drunken girls and happy friends?" |
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Lord Silouan Skinner "Honesty is praised and starves." |
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Miesha Saltblood "Duties are ours; events are the gods'." |