Merytis Family

Scions of House Merytis (MERRY-tiss)

see also House Merytis

Lasten (LAST-en)

• Location: Falasan, Atamara
• Description: A large, red-headed man who was interested since childhood in stories of honour and loyalty. He is devoted to the lord of Nazgorn and Falasan. He is a leader of soldiers, and outside of war spends his time exhorting his men to greater efforts in their training regime. He is the elder by 43 seconds.
• Works: Lasten's Notes on War

Reilwin (RAIL-win)

• Location: Falasan, Atamara
• Description: He is Lasten's twin, yet appears quite different. With red hair so dark it is almost black, he is of slim build. Highly intelligent and analytical, he alone remained to listen to the tutors while Lasten left early to play "Soldiers and Monsters". He is a perfectionist, and enjoys travelling to tourneys to exhibit his swordsmanship and learn new techniques. Unlike Lasten, his loyalties are not as firmly set in stone. He follows those whom he respects, and will reject those whom he finds to be fools.
• History: Reilwin is the founder and was the Head-Editor of the Falasan Inquirer. After Lord Abraham's imprisonment and subsequent illness, Gucky eventually appointed him as Falasan's new Royal Treasurer. This drew upon him duties such that he withdrew from active contribution to the Falasan Inquirer and asked Rathkanouros Kalantis to occupy himself fully with that task.

Proslyn (prahz-LIN)

• Location: Taselak, South-East Island
• Description: He is a cousin of Lasten and Reilwin's, from their father's side of the family. Being a youngest son with little chance of inheritance, he was always more interested in travelling abroad, and finally settled on the South-East Island and swore allegiance to Taselak, where he is learning the elements of war from the skilled strategists and tacticians of Taselak.
• History: He is a member of the Heavy Strike Group Tax Collectors.

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With the former Lord of Falens missing, Proslyn was appointed in Dennis' place, as well as the marshal of the Shield of Falens. However, with the crumbling resolution of Toren's leaders, Ikalak ventured out to conquer several more regions and took Falens.

Retainers of House Merytis

Rathkanouros Kalantis (WRATH-ka-NOO-rose ka-LAHN-tiss)

• Location: Falasan, Atamara
• Description: Rathkanouros is of House Kalantis, whose members long ago swore fealty to House Merytis. Being too poor to do more than equip the family's warriors with armor and weapons, House Kalantis compensated by training its members to be the most capable captains possible for the units led by the members of House Merytis. Rathkanouros is a grizzled veteran of many of Falasan's wars, and has come out of them with a cynical outlook on other realms. More than cynical, in fact, he often interprets their actions in the most negative way possible. When he finished his term of service, he stayed on as House Merytis' armsmaster, training the recruits of the household's guard...of whose lackwittedness, laziness and feebleness he is constantly lamenting, in spite of his every effort to whip them into shape. He was quite close to Lasten during Lasten's infancy, teaching him the rudiments of strategy and tactics; his main interaction with Reilwin was in the sparring ring.
• History: While starting up the Falasan Inquirer, Reilwin approached him to act as a contributing writer, which he accepted, lending the weight of his years and experience. When Reilwin stepped back from active writing due to his appointment as Falasan's Royal Treasurer, Rathkanouros came to the fore as its new Head-Editor.

Fame of House Merytis

Achieved:

House Merytis Offices Banker(Reilwin) 1 Lord(Proslyn) 1 Attributes Prestige: 10(Lasten et al.) 1 Prestige: 20(Proslyn et al.) 1 Family Prestige: 20 1 Family Prestige: 50 1 Family Prestige: 100 1 Events none Deaths none Unclarities none Unknown Unknown(See note #1 below; spotted 2007.06.02) ? Unknown(See note #1 below; spotted 2007.06.02)} ? Unknown(See note #2 below; spotted 2007.07.21)} ? Unknown(See note #3 below; spotted 2007.10.15)} ? Total: 10 points

Notes

1. Concerning the first 2 unknown fame points, noticed the 2nd of May, 2007.
   1. Unfortunately, I can't be sure when the fame points were gained, it could be up to a period of a week since they had been attained. Also didn't notice a gradual rise from 6 to 7 to 8, just suddenly noticed it at 8. Whether it was 2 from a single action, 2 from separate but simultaneous actions or 2 from separate and non-simultaenous actions, I have no idea.
   2. I suspect one may be from an exceptional skill, although I'll need to check that at an academy. Other than that, there seems little exceptional. One character participated in a big battle about a week ago, got imprisoned and has been rotting there since. Another character's been tending to his region as region lord. The other was appointed a (non-duke) region lord, dropped his unit, recruited and marshaled 2 skirmishes (with no increase in his skills). edit 2007.07.03: checked later, no skill was above 40%.
   3. Family wealth, prestige, titles, deaths and events are all out of there. No tournaments, army sponsoring, publications and whatnot have occurred. The banker's realm has been starving, but I doubt that's a first...
2. Concerning the third unknown fame point, noticed the 21st of June, 2007.
   1. Can't really see where this one came from...Reilwin's been pretty quiet, hasn't done much except for managing his unit. Lasten had been picking up volunteers left and right a couple days before, and seems to have started doing so again. Proslyn's been rotting in jail.
3. Concerning the fourth unknown fame point, noticed the 15th of October, 2007.
   1. Lasten just went through a battle (more of a skirmish) with a few Estonite & BoM attackers in Nazamroth. Reilwin's been staying in Tucha. Proslyn was still in Abykal. Haven't really considered my advy before, but maybe Keratin got an exceptional skill (or maybe more, judging from the above unknown fame points)