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There are names that leave legends among the realms and timestreams of the imagination. Names that were used once, and then copied and twisted until there really wasn't much meaning left in it. According to the history of this realm there are too many names that claim to be the original. You can walk down the streets and meet a dozen or so Drizzts, Raistlins, Ashs, and you might even bump into King Arthur in a strip bar. There is a family name that still remains pure. A name that, like many others, did not come from this time stream. But unlike all the other fakes, this name is still the original. A family name that has been everything from royalty to slave, warrior to mage. The name is held by the tongue... Dragonvein.
In a realm called Mythkinra, at the birth of it's timestream, the dragons were created. With these great creatures another race was created to serve them, the Taline. A millinium was carried before the first Dragonvein was born. He hated his purpose in life and became the founder and leader of a clan of Dragon Slayer's. His love, which lead him to his death, was a woman who served as a priestess to the royal dragons. They had three children.. Myst, Rhune, and CheX. These three would be the last pure blood Taline left to all of the realms. For one of the two son's became a great king and destroyed his own species... genecide.
After his two milinia of war, treaties, kingdoms, love, sex, rock & roll, CheX stepped through a nexus portal and found himself in the beginning of a newly created realm. He was appointed as the eighth member of the high council, and thus began the realm known as Rhydin.
The name is forgotten to so many in the realms. But CheX still holds it to his heart, for in all things he just wishes to have family. He was led in many ways by members of the Rhydin High Council, but he still slept in a large empty castle. The family always had guardians, but no one who would take on the name of Dragonvein. The old founders had left, and the legend of the name of Dragonvein had died. But a rebirth was found when a single woman took the name as his daughter: Maiga Dragonvein.
With her husband Vengeance Dragonvein, she set out to rebuild the Dragonvein Empire to what it once was, slowly gathering the Dragonveins who had scattered all over Rhydin over time.
The keep of the Dragonveins was located at the very center of the realm. The reason for it was simple: it was the heart of the land. Anyone living in this realm eventually ended up visiting the Dragonvein Castle sooner or later, although, the reasons were different for each visitor. Some came to admire the keep, others to cause trouble; then there were those who wanted to do trade with the nobles, others who were seeking employment, and then of course those, who wanted to make a quick penny. The residents in HoD were as manyfold as the reasons for being in the capital.
Scattered around the main keep were settlements. A farm house here, another there, a gathering of people elsewhere, a small town in the making, or an older town growing by leaps and bounds. There was room for anyone not afraid to put in an honest day's worth of work.
This also attracted the riff raff, the crooks, thieves, spies, cutthroats, even the dwellers of the dark found their way into the lands of the Dragonveins. Good and bad influences were present. The Dragonveins' Rule was fair, yet kept a tight reign on their land. Those who opposed HoD were more then welcome to leave, whether of their own will, or by force. Maiga Dragonvein was not afraid to show her teeth when need be, or mercy should the need arise.
Interested? Please read the House Rules.
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