Throcmeretun Family

Throcmeretun Family

The Throcmeretun Family hails from Atamara, with origins in Strombran, the capital of Carelia.

Levi

Levi is the only child of the eldest son of the noble Throcmeretun family. He began his career as a very young knight of the region of Dontow in Carelia. Now the Count of Atblane and a Cavalier, he continues to embody the spirit of Carelia: honor, dignity and upright standing are his core values. He is intensely patriotic and a fearless leader of his men. In times of peace, he yearns for battle, and when war is called for, no happier Carelian can be found. The men of his troop affectionately call themselves "Throc's Rocks" and serve him loyally and well. Although a warrior first, Levi is not completely closed off to the idea of entering into an alternate full-time career, such as politics or priesthood. However, he is satisfied with his current standing in the realm and seeks to gain more honor, prestige, and repute with each passing battle.

Levi's campaign record is becoming more and more prestigious; the most impressive of these participations is his role in the overthrowing and destruction of RedSpan by the combined forces of Carelia, the Cagilan Empire, and Tara. His political clout is also growing as he was appointed by Garthon Dumeric to be the Count of Garnagi, then subsequently granted lordship over the larger Atblane. His parents are overjoyed with his political prowess and have pledged to do all they can to support their child.

Eduard

(The above is a sculpture of Eduard that was created during his late teenage years. No recent portraits of the master archer have been found.)

As a young child, Eduard's interest had always been piqued by winged creatures and their physical properties. Because of this innate obsession, as the boy grew into a man, he naturally preferred studying archery techniques to infantry techniques. A brilliant lad, he became able to predict within a few inches where a fired arrow would land based on weather conditions and other such factors at as young an age as eleven. His elders recognized this to be a great advantage and began training him to be a great leader of archers.

Eduard is the cousin of Levi (his father's brother's son) and his elder by about two and a half years. However, after a bitter altercation with his cousin, Eduard determined that he had to get out of Carelia and away from Levi before anything irrevocable happened. Thus he moved to the region of Icegate in the frozen north of Atamara, where he recruited his first set of warriors, calling them Nocturnal Contagion. This name was destined to stick to all troops Eduard would command from that day forward.

After tragically losing all of his men in a great battle in Cheltenborne, yet surviving himself, Eduard declared himself a hero. He holds as few ties and loyalties as possible and prefers to be left to himself. Because of this belief, he refuses to pledge himself to any liege. Eduard briefly held the office of Baron of Freezefist but is now a knight of the same realm in a sort of partnership with the current Baron.

Joseph

Joseph was the younger brother of Eduard. Many described him as the fleshed-out version of Eduard; the passions and fire that Eduard keeps so well hidden, Joseph made no attempt to disguise. His battle-hungry, firebrand attitude often got him into trouble at home, and more often than not, Joseph could be found in bars and other places of ill repute around Strombran. Tragically, his parents took very little disciplinary action, and so Joseph continued to live this life until one day when he overheard a traveling trader telling of his travels.

The man had come from the Colonies, and purported them to be lands of instant wealth, intense warfare and all the sorts of things that appealed to Joseph. Thus, without informing his parents, he packed his belongings, and in the middle of the night, boarded a ship bound for the Colonies. His parents knew nothing of his whereabouts for several years, despite the distribution of a realm-wide report of his absence.

Sad news reached the Throcmeretun family nearly a year later. The boy known as Joseph had been captured on Beluaterra and imprisoned by the enemies of the realm he was serving. Having been captured before by the same realm and warned to stay away, he was summarily executed by the realm. The family requested and were given the body of their son and nephew and oversaw his burial. Thus passed Joseph.

Goronwy

Goronwy was the half brother of Levi through their mother. He was born before the marriage of Levi's father and mother. The father of Goronwy is unknown to all except his mother; all that is known about the cad is that he abandoned Goronwy's mother soon after her pregnancy. The family has not attempted to learn anything further concerning his name or whereabouts.

In order to keep the family name honorable in the public eye, Goronwy was shunned from any inheritance or nobility and was thus forced into the life of an adventurer. The last contact he had with his family was in the financing of his voyage to Beluaterra by his mother.

Sad news reached the Throcmeretun family several months later. They were told that Goronwy was beginning to make a name for himself among the gentry of Riombara when he was captured by the Necromancer's Servants in Avengmil. He was on a quest in search of a rare and unique artifact (the name of the artifact was withheld as others were still in search of it) at the time of his capture. Having been imprisoned several times before, Goronwy planned to wait out his weeklong period of capture as was his practice. However, on the fourth day of this particular captivity, he was brutally executed by the living dead.

His mother, upon hearing the news, was heartbroken and did not sleep or eat for a week. The patriarch Throcmeretun, attempting to lift his wife's spirits, was able to anonymously send money to Beluaterra in order to give Goronwy a decent burial. Thus passed Goronwy.

John/Ioannes

One of the many bastard sons of Eduard, John (or, as he is known on the East Continent, Ioannes) was naturally shunned from any sort of rights to nobility or honorable inheritance. Still desiring to live a life of excitement and battle, however, he decided at the age of 20 to leap aboard the first ship bound from the Barony of Makar to the East Continent and begin a life of adventure.


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