House of Lothric

The House of Lothric was a Royal House, ruling the kingdom of the same name, now known as Lorithia.
== History ==
=== A New Royal House ===
Due to it now having no ruler and no royal bloodline, The Kingdom of Lordran eventually crumbled to ruin. Overtime the city of the Gods, due to its magical nature, Anor Londo began to move away from the rest of the land of Lordran, in what most attribute it to a wildly miraculous natural phenomenon and happened over the course of about 500 years.
Eventually a new royal household took up the mantle to try and rule the once great kingdom, simply known as the House of Lothric. With the rule of the House of Lothric came a great time of stability, but also came the a much more open version of the linking of the flame. Lord Gwyn put in great measures to ensure that the next Lord of Cinder was strong enough to Link the Flame, putting in place several measures to make it only viable to those strong enough. With the House of Lothric however, the Kiln was open to most that would think they were strong enough to try and link the flame, making it a common practice for over nearly 800 years.
With the coming of this new royal household, came the claiming of land outside of the nation for the first time and expanded its borders drastically, including locations in the Great Swamp, most of Astora and several other locations. Lothric became the biggest kingdom in history. Eventually the Great Swamp fell completely to the forces of the Lothric and the swamp became completely part of the lands. Eventually the villages formed in the Great Swamp became known as the Undead Settlement due to the amount of Undead that lived there and were given their own governance as well as being allowed to continue the practice of Pyromancy.
Lothric also established the Three Pillars of Lothrics Rule, known as the Priestess, The Scholars and the Knights. The King and patriarch of the family was that of Oceiros, who took a wife and had her name forsaken so that she would have no prominence in the royal line. The Queen consort had Twin Children, known as Lorian and Lothric. Lorian was the elder child and as such was the Heir to the Throne, whereas Lothric was designated as the next Lord of Cinder.
=== Three Pillars of Lothric ===
The Knights Pillar represented the army of Lothric and as such, the armed defence of the Royal Family and of the Land of Lothric. The knights would have taken their vows in the Lothric Cathedral, in a ceremony in which they would have shed their blood in a ritual basin in front of a beheading knight. In fact, throughout the kingdom there are various statues of knights in the act of cutting off their heads in a ritual way, symbolizing how the order took their duty towards the kingdom very seriously and the culture of sacrifice dictated by the cult of the linking of the First Flame was deeply rooted in them.
The Priestess's Pillar represents the clergy of the kingdom of Lothric and the religious wing of the royal family since its foundation, making their task the management of the faith of the kingdom, the ecclesiastical structures in the city and the support of the knights and citizens with healing and protective miracles. The main religion of Lothric had a mixture of the Way of Blue and the Darkmoon Blades, due to Lothric being allied with Gwyndolin, lord of the Anor Londo. But there was still a worship for the Suns Firstborn and as such, destroyed statues could still be found around the Kingdom.
The Scholar's Pillar represents the scholars of the kingdom of Lothric and the academic wing of the royal family since its foundation, making their task the management of the knowledge of the kingdom, the academic structures in the city and the support of the realm with researches and sorceries. Much of the scholars knowledge came from Aldia Scholar of the First Sin and brother of King Vendrick of Drangleic.
=== The Lords Abandon Their Thrones ===
In 1368FY, the Catarinian King, King Gunther II had a prophecy about the Lords of Cinder, stating that when Prince Lothric was old enough and strong enough to become Lord of Cinder he would actually refuse to become one and thereby refuse the throne, becoming known as the Old Words prophecy. In 1663FY, Oceiros' mental health deteriorated following the death of his youngest son Ocelotte, and he became more and more driven to seek true immortality in an attempt to try and bring his son back to life and starts to gather all of the research across the world, especially that of Seath and Big Hat Logan, but eventually went insane like his predecessors. Eventually, Two Crystal Sages from the school of Vinheim, specialising in the magic of Seath and his quest for immortality. The King in his research chose to try and follow the path of the dragon and eventually his devotion transformed him into a twisted humanoid dragon and began to seclude himself away from the castle in his own personal garden.
Oceiros' mental decline was seen as the moment in which Prince Lorian should ascend his fathers throne and Prince Lothric should then go on to become the Lord of Cinder as the flame began to fade once again. However, much like the Kings prophecy, Lothric did indeed refuse his fathers throne and in turn stated that he did not wish to become Lord of Cinder, causing the Firekeepers to panic and set of a chain of events. In their panic, they begin to resurrect those who were once Lords of Cinder before using the old bells of awakening, with the Lords being Yhorm, Aldrich, The Abyss Watchers and Ludleth, however, like in the prophecy, they all refuse their Cinder thrones and return to their own lands.
In the midst of the turmoil, the Realms of Londor, famously known as the land of hollows enacted their long standing plan and began to try and take the throne of Lothric and as such try to usurp the First Flame. As such a mass scale invasion by Londor took place against the Kingdom of Lothric. Due to the fading of the first flame however, this led to many of the knights of Lothric becoming hollows and turned against themselves. Pontiff Sulyvahn, under orders from Aldrich, ordered his outriders knights to also attack Lothric, sending both the Dancer of the Boreal Valley and Vordt to attempt to try and conquer it. The fighting was said to go on for years, leaving the kingdom in almost complete ruin and Prince Lothric and Lorian becoming prisoners in their own quarters after sealing it off from the rest of Lothric Castle.
During the fighting, an unfathomable and colossal natural event occurred. A seismic upheaval of land, said to be because of the long stagnation of the First Flame and its fading, caused Lothrics lands to extend to great heights, cutting off its main routes into the Kingdom and leading it to becoming known as the High Wall of Lothric. Many of those within were as such trapped inside, including the Dancer, Vordt, The Outrider Knights and one of the two Crystal Sages.
=== The Unkindled Who Destroyed A Legacy ===
Amidst the turmoil, the firekeeper called Rhian began to resurrect several unkindled in an attempt to try and find one strong enough to become the next Lord of Cinder, by bringing the remains of those that refused their thrones, including Prince Lothric, the one who was designated as the next Lord of Cinder. Among these unkindled was a nameless soldier known simply as The Ashen One. Upon his awakening, he was able to pull the sword embedded inside of the knight known as Gundyr, awakening the prophecy as the one who would be next Lord of Cinder, before entering Firelink Shrine and Rhian giving the Ashen One his task.
On his journey throughout the land, the Ashen One managed to reclaim the cinders of each lord who refused his throne, the last being Prince Lothric, who he battled within the upper quarters of Lothric Castle along with Lothric's brother, Prince Lorian. In this battle, he slew both Princes and took their ashes. He also explored the rest of the Castle, before discovering the King, locked away in his personal garden, now fully mad and transformed into a human dragon. The Ashen One then battled and killed Oceiros, killing the last of the Royal House and thus rendering the house completely extinct.
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