Eldritch Houses
The Eldritch are organized by families and groups together into Houses. Typically, the male marries into the female's family, but on occasions where the male's family is richer, sometimes the female will elect to become a member of his instead. One family takes responsibility for the leadership of the House.
Most of the original Eldritch Houses were lost to attrition, but two, notably, were declared destroyed by royal fiat: Corel's, Firilith; and Asaniefa. Firilith was purged by the Church, which was formally created in order to deal with such problems, and almost all its members were slain. One or two might have survived by fleeing into the peasantry. Asaniefa was dissolved during the events of the novel Laisrathera.
Noble Houses have 5 to 7 families within them. Typically all the power and wealth is collected in one or two of those families, with the others existing as adjuncts to the majors within the House.
Existing Houses have become factionalized into those who are in favor of more interaction with aliens, and isolationists, and have been sorted in that fashion here.
Heraldic Conventions
Each house has an animal (until Laisrathera, which chose a star for its symbol); within each house, each family might portray that animal in a specific attitde.
Pelted Partisans
Galare
Galare - heraldry, A unicorn rampant silver on blue. Total population number is roughly 10,205.
- Seni - heraldry, A unicorn passant regardant silver on blue. Population roughly 1800.
- Delen (Head of Household family, Northern); Delen took in 20 nobles from Asaniefa. Population roughly 2900.
- Nuera. Population 466.
- Jesa (Head of Household family, Western). Population 4200 (includes the capital)
- Nase. Population 217.
- Emil. Population 612.
- Catha. Population 710.
Jisiensire
Jisiensire - heraldry, A rearing hippogriff bronze on burgundy. Total population number was 4600 prior to the events of Laisrathera, the novel.
Mathanith
Mathanith, copper enfield on yellow. Total population 2956.
Imthereli
Imthereli - heraldry, A winged dragon black on red. Population was 2812, prior to Korval's marriage into the Nase Galare, at which point the tenant population was absorbed by Asaniefa.
Laisrathera
Laisrathera - heraldry, A gold star on peach. Total population not sure.
Neutral Houses
It is very hard to remain neutral in the clash between the isolationists and Liolesa's partisans. These houses manage it by carefully marrying equal numbers of people into both factions.
Thavelfin
Thavelfin - theow, orichalcum on gray. Total population 3109.
Deriline
Deriline - opinicus, brass on purpure. Total population 3080.
Isolationists
Asaniefa (Defunct)
Asaniefa (Defunct) - heraldry, A centicore electrum on emerald. Prior population was 7,784 prior to dispersal. Those tenants have mostly been absorbed by the neighboring provinces (mostly Galare).
Sovanil
Sovanil - sea snake, argent on turquoise. Population 3397.
Ulurith
Ulurith - basilisk, steel on sable. Population 7219.
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