De Neige Family

A tiny, ancient lineage centered in the badlands of Upper Tell, which lie to the East of IceGate, the capital of the Barony of Makar in Atamara. The family aspires only to existence - and perhaps financial stability. Recently certain members of the de Neige family have been making names for themselves....

Lou

Status: Killed as a hero in battle at age 30

Originally a knight of the Barony, Lou rose to become the first and only hero of the de Neige family early on. After a relatively quiet career, he traveled to fight for Falasan as an elite member of the Black Rose Knights and as a minor member of the Templars Guild. He later sailed for Beluaterra to fight along side Lady Renee and Lady Baiko of Irombrozia. It was here that he died, fighting in the river valleys of Bolkenia to break a takeover being staged by the Kingdom of Alluran.

~nothing is mentioned in the family logs of Lou's time in Sandalak - these tales seem as yet lost to history~

Renard

Status: Age 29, infiltrator at large

After a brief career as a miltary officer, Renard left the armies of Norland to become a career bureaucrat. His penchant for numbers and business quickly led him to success in the field and he easily rose to become one of Norland's greatest pencil-pushers. For some time, he served as the Count of Egret's Rock where he founded a successful spa business and side project that marketed a special brand of lotion designed to the specifications of the justicar of the time, Loreon. During this period, he primarily re-invested gold into individual troopleaders while making returns on family investments, and even managed to construct a small guildhouse for the Templars.

After attaining mastery of the bureaucratic arts, Renard found himself longing for adventure and so decided that a change in career was in order. He began his career as an infiltrator just as the war between Norland and Minas Ithil was breaking out and spent most of his time at the national academies. Following the death of his brother, Lou, the family elders sent Renard to the aid of Irombrozia - and the family vaults, which were quickly draining from the constant requests of Lou and Renee.

Renee

Status: Age 30, cavaliering general and aspiring swordsmistress

The first of the family to begin her story off the shores of Atamara, Renee first appears in the family logs as a bureaucrat in the Far East. Her time in Sartania was marked by a quickly rising political career which, at its height, led to her becoming the Countess of Obtal.

Her success was not to last, however, after she became involved with two individuals - Baiko Hyral and Hireshmont Vellos who eventually fled Sartania after beginning the True Sartanian movement. Renee's split loyalties between her friends in the underground and her superiors in the Sartanian brass led to a mental breakdown from which she never fully recovered during her time in Sartania.

A relatively small argument with a loud-mouthed refugee over bureaucrating's worth to Sartan led to Renee into a brief relapse and eventual exodus from the Far East, whereupon she began a quest to join her old friends and master the way of the sword.

Eventually finding the two in Riombara of the Beluaterran continent, Renee never fully settled in to the Riombaran social sphere. Perhaps not surprisingly she followed the two to the fledgling realm, Irombrozia, created when Duke Marc ceded from the Riombaran main.

Since then, Renee seems to have truely found her place, slowing converting to Qyrvaggism and becoming a full-fledged cavalier. When the realm called for a new general, she volunteered and was accepted, perhaps only because no other applications were submitted. Upon hearing of her adventures in Irombrozia and seeing the many requests back to the family for gold, her brother Lou decided to join her is search of glory.

Lou's death in battle shocked Renee, yet she seems to be going down a different path from her previous collapses. Her future is currently unsure....

Adele

Status: Age 21, adventurer extrodinaire

Her exact connection to the family is ambigious at best - but the de Neige family has always been too practical for formalities and so as long as Adele brings honor to the name she has requisitioned they will allow her to keep it.

Lazare

Status: Age 25, a knight just beginning his career

The details of the story are just beginning to unfold....