Asaniefa (House)

Asaniefa House Seal

At a Glance

Colors: green and electrum
Sign/beast: centicore
Capital:
Population: was 7,784 prior to dispersal. Those tenants have mostly been absorbed by the neighboring provinces (mostly Galare).
Political Allegiance: Isolationist

Geography

The last living chimera and basilisks were found in Asaniefa's province. ^[1]

Some wheat is grown in Asaniefa, but only enough for its people, and none for tithing. They tithe other crops.^[2]

People and Society

Founders

Asaniefa Family Tree

The only House to be founded by women of separate families, Melandra Silin and Tiriana Nila. Tiriana never married, however; her brother Harathiel Nila was the one who continued their family name in a rare marriage where the male was deemed more powerful than the female who wanted him. Melandra married Alassan, who took her name, and they had nine children (!), seven female and two male, which cemented Silin as Asaniefa's powerbrokers. Even when Silin hasn't been the formal head of Asaniefa, their relations have been hip-deep in the politics of the House.

Melandra and Alassan Silin had (in order): Gilanatha(f), Nushaelathil(f), Halueth (m), Iriamiel (f), Mirthanassa (f), Laeratha (f), Ethaniel (f), Nerelissa (f) and Lirenith (m).
Harathiel and Ailiara Silin had (in order): Naranthan (m), Coralan (m), and Onaeron (m)

There is some intermarriage between these two women's families; Coralan started Osin with Nushaelathil; and Iriamiel, the third daughter, married Onaeron Nila, the third son of Harathiel (a union that produced Surela before Iriamiel's untimely death in childbed, rendering Surela an only child with a very jaundiced view of breeding).

On Melandra's side, Laeratha and Nerelissa went into the clergy; on Harathiel's, Naranthan went into the priesthood. All rose high in their respective hierarchies, which started a tradition of Asaniefa giving children to the church.

Coralan's children: Adorissa (f), Eiliana (f), Faraleitha (f), Naevalor (m) (who began as Osin, but started Irys)
Naevalor Irys married Lysarana Sili of House Deriline and had one girl and two boys. The girl is responsible for Thaniet (and Thaniet was the youngest of three children, all girls).

Families

Ruling family: Silin
Irys
Nila
Osin

History

Asaniefa is interesting that many of its families were created by males in the House who wanted to establish family names of their own. Sometimes this worked out well, as when Harathiel Nila's son Coralan started Osin, which would become the second most successful family in Asaniefa; sometimes it works out horribly, as when his son started Irys, and then drove it into the ground within a generation, impoverishing the family.

Asaniefa was disbanded after the coup, and the nobles that weren't killed were demoted to the tenantry and scattered into other Houses' lands. "Scattering Asaniefa shocked the remaining Houses antagonistic to Liolesa’s aims into wary retreat, but did not dissuade them from their views. Hirianthial thought that a few decades would accustom them sufficiently to the conveniences of the Alliance to prevent any uprising as obvious as the one Surela had spearheaded, but Liolesa remained unconvinced." ^[3]

Asaniefa Eldritch

Physiognomy

Asaniefa is known for its unusually pure green eyes (which were probably engineered initially by the first settlers, because green eyes are rare in humans too, at only 2% of the population). At some point I said Kirthander had Asaniefa's "green eyes" (find ref).

There are several Asaniefa green strains, from rarest to most common

warrior's green: an unusually dark green (for Eldritch) flecked with red; rarest
first blush green: very light, clear green with pinkish bits
seafarer green: a blueish-green, like tropical water
starsight green: a warm deep green with yellowish tones like moldavite

In general, any green bright enough to register as green is called 'Asaniefa green' or 'Asaniefa eyes' by outsiders. While those eyes do appear in other Houses, it's usually a sport. (Or suspicious.)

Widow's peaks are also common in Asaniefa, and small hands and feet.