Heh. Well, it was rather a romp to reread; you thoroughly contaminated an entire continent with bioterror mayhem, directly leading to the Inquisition calling down an Exterminatus on your own world last time? Good heavens, but I look forward to seeing what happens now that we have an entire Empire to caretake. ^_^
House Name: Morgarten
Home System: Jurt
House History: A minor House, for some time serving loyally as barons and baronesses to House Argonian. They came to Garthon II with that house, fought and died alongside them, and like them, suffered terribly under the Death World's grim and unrelenting hostility. Rapidly diminished to only three heirs of the bloodline, House Argonian staggered on for some years, always served by Morgartens, before the last Argonian of Garthon fell to illness less than thirty years ago. Threatened by infighting and war, with the remaining Argonians far distant and either unwilling or unable to rule a Death World that had taken so many of their number, the aging patriarch Theophrastus the Elder found himself compelled to wage his own battle from the shadows to preserve what his liege lords had built, eventually securing suzerainty over the Garthon system. Though
de facto a powerful lord,
de jure recognition was never in sight, but Theophrastus never sought such, dying peacefully in his sleep a mere baron that had restored order to Garthon with his own two hands, a fact recognized by the Grey Guard. Perhaps the greatest flaw in the reign of Theophrastus, however, was his longevity, as he outlived all of his children. As such, the senior heir in the main line was the young Alruna, daughter of his eldest son Theophrastus the Younger, who at the young age of 17 suddenly found herself Baroness of a suddenly-reduced minor House (much of the loyalty Theophrastus commanded having come through hard-earned personal bonds of respect or power rather than actual feudal rights as an overlord) and forced to contend with older and more talented members of cadet branches of her family as well as the other families of Garthon, those that had survived Theophrastus the Elder's "reductions," many of which were also senior in rank. Loyalty still remains the watchword of the Morgarten family, but their loyalty, rather than to the House Argonian that had abandoned their duties to their vassals or any specific Emperor (that role so long held
sede vacante), now rests in the principle of the Empire of Man. Not even having ruled her own House for a full year, she now finds herself forced to come to Halo as one of five who will, between them, hold the electoral vote and select a new Emperor for the first time in a century.
Bonus: Good Genes (3)
((So we can make it traitors, kinslayers, mercenaries, and children.
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