House De Delekou

House De Delekou resides in Delekou, the main agriculture center of Araedia. During the fall harvest, the city is overrun with food and it falls to the lords and vassals of this city to ensure it is properly distributed across Araedia and delivered safely to the nearby ports for further distribution. They have sworn fealty to House De Lancret, but function as an independent provincial during the harvesting season as mandated by the royal house. Its colors are burnt orange and harvest gold and its sigil appears as two twin elm trees held together at their trunks by three strands of wheat. The sigil represents the house’s unyielding spirit which is reflected in its words: “Level the land, weather the storm”
== Traits ==
Members of House De Delekou are known for their tanned skin and sun-gifted glow due to the amount of time spent outisde among the farmers and gatherers during the planting and harvest seasons. The men and women, while strong, are lean, though noble women have a tendency to be more pale and frail due to their obligations and responsibility due to the influence of the Circle of Xolile. The common folk in Araedia have dark skin and a warm complexion often featuring amber eyes and chestnut hair, though there is variance.
== Innovations ==
Lord Xavier is the pioneer of Delekou’s extensive watering system, utilizing the natural flow of rivers from the mountains to ensure all crops in the Estigard Province receive the necessary water and nutrients. He, along with Lady Candela, was also the one to develop the coal filtration system used by many major cities across the Kingdom.
== Customs ==
Festival of Abundance
As a thanks for an abundant harvest, Delekou hosts the Festival of Abundance at the end of the season that lasts for a week, though it often continues unofficially in the homes of laborers to celebrate the end of their work. Dancing, celebration, and preparations for large feasts take place during the day as the market in the city bustles with life before the celebrations truly begin at night with hearty meals cooked by nobles and commoners alike are served and the feast begins in the square. Notably, on the third night of the festival the de Delekou family alone prepares and serves the feast as a thanks to their people for their hard work.
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