Post by The Terror on Nov 9, 2018 16:20:34 GMT
While 'great house' is a very generous term, Linyanti is nevertheless in the control of three important families.
First to arrive was House Adaxios, explorers and tradesmen from the Summer Islands. Five years ago, they were the sole rulers of this nameless stretch of land. They maintain the best relations with the natives and use these connections maintain a near monopoly on the lumber business. Almost all of Linyanti was built from Adaxios wood. Their leader, Artumar Adaxios, is a fierce warrior and savvy businessman. It was his cunning and obstinacy that secured his people control of the lumber business when the pale bastards arrived.
Of course, no true civilization would consider any Summer Islander accomplishment a true township. In the official annals of the town charter, Linyanti was founded primarily by three Volantene men of purest Valyrian stock. As the colonial governor Lord Vaenor Taernarys lacks children and the famed explorer Baelor Golareon has since vanished on another passage of discovery, it can be reliably suggested that House Maltalos will serve as Linyanti's most enduring link to the Freehold. The family patriarch, Lord Aenys Maltalos, is an esteemed member of the elephants and has used his tremendous resources and not a little brute force to claim the local salt mine. He is now easily the wealthiest man in the colony. He is also very possibly the most hated man in the colony. Deeply set in his Volantene ways, his smugness and rude nature has kept him from being truly embraced by the other colonists. His sons fare little better in the public eye.
The final family is not truly a family, but rather an institution. The Kindly Mother has been employed by the governor to provide the necessary slave labor to build and populate his vision of Linyanti. Without the Kindly Mother, Linyanti would still be a collection of huts surrounded by poorly crafted fences. Without the Kindly Mother, Linyanti might have met the same fate as so many other attempts to master Sothoryos. Of course, the Kindly Mother is Ghiscari and is typically ignored in reports back to Volantis. There, it is often assumed Lords Taernarys and Maltalos somehow built a thriving township via stunning courage and raw charisma.
First to arrive was House Adaxios, explorers and tradesmen from the Summer Islands. Five years ago, they were the sole rulers of this nameless stretch of land. They maintain the best relations with the natives and use these connections maintain a near monopoly on the lumber business. Almost all of Linyanti was built from Adaxios wood. Their leader, Artumar Adaxios, is a fierce warrior and savvy businessman. It was his cunning and obstinacy that secured his people control of the lumber business when the pale bastards arrived.
Of course, no true civilization would consider any Summer Islander accomplishment a true township. In the official annals of the town charter, Linyanti was founded primarily by three Volantene men of purest Valyrian stock. As the colonial governor Lord Vaenor Taernarys lacks children and the famed explorer Baelor Golareon has since vanished on another passage of discovery, it can be reliably suggested that House Maltalos will serve as Linyanti's most enduring link to the Freehold. The family patriarch, Lord Aenys Maltalos, is an esteemed member of the elephants and has used his tremendous resources and not a little brute force to claim the local salt mine. He is now easily the wealthiest man in the colony. He is also very possibly the most hated man in the colony. Deeply set in his Volantene ways, his smugness and rude nature has kept him from being truly embraced by the other colonists. His sons fare little better in the public eye.
The final family is not truly a family, but rather an institution. The Kindly Mother has been employed by the governor to provide the necessary slave labor to build and populate his vision of Linyanti. Without the Kindly Mother, Linyanti would still be a collection of huts surrounded by poorly crafted fences. Without the Kindly Mother, Linyanti might have met the same fate as so many other attempts to master Sothoryos. Of course, the Kindly Mother is Ghiscari and is typically ignored in reports back to Volantis. There, it is often assumed Lords Taernarys and Maltalos somehow built a thriving township via stunning courage and raw charisma.