Ruuk

Ruuks in Eldham originated from the migration of the three siblings: Beatrice, Gúren, and Roz Ruuk in Summer of 147 ítévas standard (I.S.). They were born to Aríla and Amádéis Ruuk in an Ítéa, a far-off region of Hell where the ítévas dwelled. The matriarch of the family was Beatrice Ambrosia Ruuk, the eldest Ruuk remaining in Eldham. She and her descendants inhabited the region of Aristios, most commonly the town of Ryukostead. They abandoned Eldham, returning to their Ítéa, for many years. Most recent inhabitants were found in Sanctus.
== Members ==
There were 17 relevant members of the family. 8 were significant enough to be named here.
=== Amádéis Ruuk ===
Amádéis, husband of Aríla, was a cartographer of Gašopi's expeditions. Most significantly, he drew the maps from Ítéa to Eldham as he followed Voclari pilgrims through the Wastes. His children later used his maps to make their own journey to the distant lands. 
=== Aríla Ruuk ===
Aríla, wife of Amádéis, was an aristocrat in Gašopi. She used what influence she had over the tides of the oligarchical government to secure financing for her husband's expeditions. 
=== Beatrice Ambrosia Ruuk ===
Beatrice was the founder of Ryukostead, the first ítévas settlement in Eldham. When she emigrated to Eldham, she adopted the identity of Aristii as her Voclari neighbors did and took on a Traveler´s Tongue equivalent to her ítévasdí name, Bétsara. She was witness to many significant events in the history of Aristios. Most significantly were her support for the Commonwealth during the challenging of the Empire and her time as a high-ranking Republic official. Late in her active career, she founded the Abbey of Dulfika, which quickly passed to her daughter. She married twice, remaining with her second spouse, Michael Ruuk-Valore, until he passed.
=== Mios Ruuk ===
Mios was a citizen of the Republic of Aristios. They were an adopted child of Beatrice Ambrosia Ruuk and her ex-wife. They married Alia Fielinya-Ruuk.
=== Marigold Valerie Ruuk ===
Marigold, whose ítévasdí name was Marí, was Abbess of Dulfika and a Princeps of the Nuvenos Union. She was daughter to Beatrice Ambrosia Ruuk and Michael Ruuk-Valore. She dedicated her life to her faith in the deities Visveos and Omari. While she never engaged in traditional romantic pursuits, she produced 9 children outside the womb with the help of Amethystul biomancy, She quietly insisted to each of her children that they were progeny of the goddess Omari, much to their bewilderment.
=== Ae Cha Fielinya-Ruuk ===
Ae Cha, adopted child of Mios Ruuk and Alia Fielinya-Ruuk, was a politician in the Second Republic of Aristios. As a child, she was taken from her abusive ítévas father by the Ruuk family to ensure her safety. 
=== Clésúm Rúbvítí Ruuk ===
Clésúm, child of Marigold Valerie Ruuk, spent her early life learning from her grandmother Beatrice about the great expanses of the world and its histories. Her childhood dream was to be able to rewind time and experience all that had happened before she could bear witness. The Ruuks of Dulfika fled Eldham soon after she was born, and she was raised in Gašopi. As a young adult, she followed in her grandmother's path and ventured to Eldham once again, settling in Sanctus. 
=== Ellie Rúbvítí Ruuk ===
Ellie, whose ítévasdí name was Elía, joined her sister Clésúm in returning to Eldham.
== History ==
The Ruuk family originates from the Ítéa of Gašopi (gaw-sho-pih, ítévasdí: brimstone). Members of the family lived average lifestyles until the discovery of Voclaría (vo-claw-ryiia, ítévasdí: Eldham) by an expedition following foreign pilgrims.
=== Gašopi, before Voclaría ===
The Ruuks of Gašopi were an influential political family which had many ties to the governing oligarchs. Aríla Ruuk was a daughter of a weaker branch of the family, and fell for the cartographer Amádéis Cúrátse. She used what little pull she had to put her lover among the members of Gašopi research expeditions in order to secure his eye. After their marriage, Aríla and Amádeis Ruuk gathered power and funding for greater expeditions and became the primary organisers of which. 
Aríla and Amádéis raised three children in Gašopi: Bétsara, Gúren, and Roz. They would be taught by their father of the expanses of Wicší (wick-she, ítévasdí: hell, wasteland) beyond the walls of their Ítéa, and they would be taught by their mother how to navigate the hell that was government within the walls. The Ruuk family kept extensive records of their work that were open to their children to peruse and study, and this tradition would continue with each subsequent generation.
The pinnacle of Amádéis's work was in the expedition following strange pilgrims through Wicší. At the end of this journey he discovered gateways to Voclaría, a land yet unknown to the ítévas. After his return, many in Gašopi took great interest in his findings, including his children. As adults, they too would venture out.
=== Dulfika, under an Empire ===
Dissatisfied with the constaining walls of their Ítéa, the Ruuk siblings Bétsara, Gúren, and Roz made an expedition of their own to Voclaría. They came upon an island near to where the pilgrims their father had studied settled years ago and made camp. The three intended only to visit awhile, but one sibling ended up establishing permanent residence. Even after her brothers were long gone, Bétsara Ruuk remained on the island home they had built together. She assimilated to neighboring cultures and adopted the name of Beatrice Ambrosia Ruuk for common use. She pursued a study of the various theologies of Voclaría in her free time. 
After some time, Beatrice Ambrosia Ruuk became affiliated with the government of the nation that had laid claim to the land she settled on, the Empire of Aristios. She sat in on Senate meetings on behalf of the isle's few residents and was increasingly concerned with the secretive nature of the Empire's executive council. Under the reign of the Third Emperor, she became fed up with the nation altogether and was looking into alternative paths when chaos struck. Beatrice participated in a rally of Aristii voicing their displeasures with the Emperor and afterward was approached by another official proposing she join a coup. The Commonwealth of Aristios was supported from its beginning by Beatrice, but still she looked for a new experience. She ventured to Sylvania and lived a few years among the frostbitten cliffs of what she called Dulfkeep until her eventual return to Aristios.
=== Dulfika, under a Grand Republic, a Union, and a Federal Republic ===
Beatrice Ambrosia Ruuk first returned to Aristios by the city of Pompaelo in Castellum, where she first saw her future ex-wife that she married mere days after meeting. She built and lived out of a small home in the city while she learned of the workings of the Republic that had taken the Empire's place. Beatrice and her wife adopted a child from the Astillian city of Oxxo, Mios Ruuk. Beatrice shortly moved back to Dulfika which was then under the care of Michael Valore, who she quickly became infatuated with. She was elected Senator for Astillia and lasted a term before then being elected as Chancellor Echo Regis's Secretary of State. Beatrice and her wife divorced during her term as Secretary, leaving Beatrice with sole custody of their child, and after her term she was elected Governor of Astillia twice. She engaged in an open affair with Michael Valore, another Republic official, whom she married during her second term as Governor. Together, they produced one child, Marigold Valerie Ruuk, whom unlike her mother's jet black and ivory white hair had a rare ítévas phenotype of suntouched hair (which is vibrant and flame-like). Marigold spent a scant few years of her childhood as a citizen of the Republic, as Aristios collapsed not long into her life.
=== Dulfika, under an Abbess, a Princeps, and the Nuvenos ===
Beatrice Ambrosia Ruuk took Dulfika on a new path after the fall of Aristios, using her time as a theologian as inspiration to reform the isle into a monastic order. Marigold Valerie Ruuk spent her formative years recollecting her memories of a nation lost to petty disputes. Wanting for connection to the Aristii, she grappled with the disparate faiths of Aristios and latched onto the Azadion Nuvenos faith. From a young age, she found solace in the stories of the Azadion gods Visveos and Omari. She accepted the tearful and intense Visveos as her Creator and the bright and impassioned Omari as his Emissary. When her mother retired as Abbess of Dulfika and left the position to her, Marigold admitted the isle to the Nuvenos Union in order to join with her fellow faithful.
Marigold Valerie Ruuk was deeply enamored with the goddess Omari, which was assumedly the reason for her celibacy. Despite her lack of desire for love, Marigold still had want for children. She made use of a ritual which Piketoneer Amethystul, friend of her mother, had used to create his own children including Frankie M. Amethystul, biomancy. She dedicated her soul to Omari as she followed the Amethystul ritual iwth her own religious modifications and produced nine children at once. These children shared their mother's rare vibrant hair, but with color mutations. Due to this, and in reference to the method of the ritual that had produced them, Marigold gave each of them the same second name: Rúbvítí, meaning Sun soul.
Marigold served as Grand Princeps of the Nuvenos Union for a short time until her father, Michael Valore-Ruuk, passed away due to his shorter lifespan. In their grief, the Ruuks of Dulfika fled back to Gašopi and did not return for many years. Marigold's children heard many stories of their mother's and grandmother's time spent in Voclaría, but had been too young to remember any of their own. Clésúm Rúbvítí Ruuk, in particular, was attracted to her grandmother's tales of traveling land and sea in the distant Voclaría. Just as Beatrice once had, she set out with her sister Ellie in pursuit of a grand journey.
=== Sanctus, under a Dwarf King, a Ratpress, and the Crownlands ===
Clésúm Rúbvití and Ellie Rúbvití Ruuk sought out an old family friend, Piketoneer Amethystul, King of Sanctus. As Dulfika had been completely abandoned many years ago, there was nothing for them to return to there, and they made home in the rugged city of Vallis. Clésúm became fascinated with exotic Cherry Blossom Trees and made an effort to reforest the decimated landscape of Sanctus with the vibrant plants, healing an injury that had led to the fall of a nation she had never known.
== Stories of Ruuk ==
=== Steading of Ruuks ===
The story of how the town of Ryukostead came to be. An origin for Beatrice Ambrosia Ruuk in Eldham.
=== Immaculate Conception ===
The story of the creation of Marigold's children and a peek into why their mother never found love. An origin for Clésúm Rúbvítí Ruuk and her siblings. 
Category:Families
Category:Eldham
Category:Aristios
Category:Traveler's Era