Dragonlords of Viss/House Virkeeri
House Virkeeri
Current ranking: Lesser house
Settlements: City of Vaseer (10pts)
Fortifications: The crystal palace, a Small Castle (5pts)
Troops: 1000 men (1pt) > 500 house guards >> 500 medium horse on police duties
Dragons: none
Vassals: none
Wealth: none
Lands: A large semi settled island south of the main empire containing a vast amounts of forests, rich volcanic enriched plains and a dead volcano exceedingly rich in minerals and crystal formations
Rulership
Ruler: Lady Amara of house Vaseer Inheritance: All land is owned by the house and cannot be separated, the youngest daughter of the main linage is heir apparent with older relatives taking positions of aids, teachers, Regents and other important roles to aid the heir as she learns the role and takes command of the house.
History
House Virkeeri endures, through storm, war, raiders or plague House Virkeeri endures.
That it has experienced these so often that they have fallen from a greater house to a lesser shows that they are not a house with a reputation for knowing when to quit, tenacious, driven and being very loyal to their chosen liege.
this reputation however lead to their near destruction, in times of strike, wars, both civil and external house virkeeri would devote itself fully to war, seeking to increase its reputation, wealth and prove their loyalty to their liege, sometimes they did well, sometimes they were beaten, but even driven back they simply gathered, retrained and returned to battle again and again until victory.
Thus on one of the few times they retreated they were chased down, fragmented armies put to the sword, generals and scions of the house killed without ransom, harried into the houses own territories where their lands were ravaged and people slaughtered simply to delay their return to strength, removing them from the field until the end of the war.
with holding destroyed they still put themselves back into war but the pattern was established, enemies to the throne knew to attack the lands and not the armies of the house, tearing down their infrastructure, taking away their wealth, thinning the numbers of the house until they simple were unable to control their own lands.
the Lady of the house knew how weak they had become and knew when peace returned the casual and polite feeding frenzy for power and influence would destroy her house and steal their lands under the pretense of assisting them to keep order due to their weakened state.
in order to avoid this fate the matriarch sold her lands and remaining assets to the throne in exchange for settlement right for the newly discovered and explored southern islands, a few supply ships and building materials.
it was assumed that the house had failed, for three generations no word was heard nor did any of the ships returned, the house sliding into history until a ship loaded with crystal, hard woods, iron and gold with a member of the house returning to the mainland to reestablish ties.
Yet for all its potential wealth the house is still heavily rebuilding, every coin that flows into the house flows straight back into the island, setting up new mines, plantations, building trade ships and training craftsman, the household is both very rich and yet without a two coins to rub together, low on troops and fairly weak but given time returning to the ranks of the greater houses is more than possible, it is really only a matter of time.
House Virkeeri
Current ranking: Lesser house
Settlements: City of Vaseer (10pts)
Fortifications: The crystal palace, a Small Castle (5pts)
Troops: 1000 men (1pt) > 500 house guards >> 500 medium horse on police duties
Dragons: none
Vassals: none
Wealth: none
Lands: A large semi settled island south of the main empire containing a vast amounts of forests, rich volcanic enriched plains and a dead volcano exceedingly rich in minerals and crystal formations
Lady Amara
The current head of house Virkeeri
House Virkeeri likes to keep its noble blood fairly pure practicing incestuous marriage almost exclusively, but unlike the blood blessed with the essence of the dragon this can lead to the blood becoming a little too thick, a sign to arrange a few marriages to... refresh the bloodline and remove the imperfections that are starting to show.
Lady Amara is showing some of these defects, nothing physical, even at her current age of 12 years old she is a perfect example of a a fine Virkeeri noble lady, her skin is pale without the pinkness of the albino, her hair the same snowy white that is the mark of pride for the Virkeeri, a trait breed for from the mixing of blood with another greater house, even her eyes are the ideal, while many of her family have a wide range of colors they always have their portraits and descriptions depicting them them with ice blue eyes, a trait they have been breeding for with mixed success for generations, hers however are the clearest icy blue, physically she is perfect, the prime example of careful selective breeding...
No the signs something was perhaps odd with the girl was apparent quite early, lack of empathy, strange fascinations and whims, the preference for her meat to bear nearly uncooked, nothing truly alarming until she was found taking a captured mouse apart to figure out how it worked, taking delight in its squeaks and thrashing as more of it was removed slice by slice.
as she aged these traits only strengthened, her tastes becoming more perverse and with the waking of her sexuality far more focused on other women, confusing sexual attraction, blood lust and hunger, culminating with the death of her personal maid, the young slave girl killed in her sleep and her body feasted upon.
If she were more troublesome or harder to steer by her family an accident might have been arranged but she is not the first heir to be difficult and the family is well versed in how to handle difficult members of the house, these days she is mostly a figure head, the official heir and in control of the houses policy but most of her power distributed to the more sane older relatives.
Her education however did show an unexpected talent that also helped save her life and position, the odd ability to see glimpses of the future, not too far reaching and hard to interpret but with some assistance has lead to the ambush and removal of more than a few raiders and pirates trying to set root in their homelands, discussions on how to breed for this trait are ongoing but is is agreed that fresh blood is needed before others start showing signs of extensive inbreeding.