Salverston family

The Salverston family, also referred to as the Salverstons, are a young family, barely in their third generation, The Salverston family's origin point, is Riverheim. The founder of the family Starkan was a recognized general in the Tortugan military, but due to an injury while teaching his son Agner how to sword fight. He decided to move the family to The Tortugan colonies in Eldham.
Starkan and Agner were both fighters, soldiers and family men, while Torsten is a by far the most successful of the family. Starkan and Agner seeked power with military might and fear, but that led to the so called family down fall.
== History ==
=== Arrival to Riverheim ===
When they arrived at Riverheim they were known for bringing bad luck where they go and to seek power everywhere. The Thynning family tried to kick them out as they said "They will only bring bad luck we all know they seek power through military might and fear" but the old Jarl Sorbito didn no want to hear it and welcomed them in. Their stay in Riverheim was peaceful except that the Thynning family would give them problems every so often, people joked that they would start a family war one day.
=== Tensions rise ===
Amongst rising tensions, the Salverstons and Thynnings were close to fighting each other, after the Thynnings learned that the Salverstons had brought their most loyal 37 men to Riverheim.
The Thynnings rallied all their troops to confront the Salverstons, tensions reached a breaking point and they were about to begin fighting, when the old Jarl Sorbito said that all of them would be convicted as traitors should they fight inside Riverheim borders. The Thynnings tried to apologies for rallying their troops and confronting the Salverston, but Starkan and Agner, to the Thynnings shock, challenged them to fight in two years under the condition that the losers exile themselves from Riverheim.
=== Family war ===
The Thynnings and Salverstons gather to discuss if this is truly the right thing to do, they came to the conclusion that they will fight but if the Salverstons lost Agner will be let to remain in Riverheim as a lowly Warrior/Soldier
The Salverstons were able to rally 51 armored soldiers, mostly Salverston loyalists, three of which were mounted combatants.
The Thynnings fielded archers, spearmen, knights, cavalry and common soldiers for a total of 341 troups.The majority Thynning troups were mercenaries contracted by the Thynnings which had the second most if not the most money in Riverheim.
The battle began with a cavalry charge by the Thynnings, as the Salverstons did not have any spearmen the cavalry wiped the floor with them. Archer fire followed after the cavalry charge, both the charge and archer fire wiped a total of 31 knights of the side of the Salverstons but they still stood ready for a fight, the Thynnings tried to negotiate with Starkan to no avail.
The Thynnings followed with another cavalry charge, but they were able to block and engage the cavalry in a melee combat killing almost all of the cavalry unfortunately, this time the Salverston were not that lucky leaving only Starkan alive but with one broke leg and no horse to retreat, Starkan throw his sword away and said "fine then kill me, there's no place in Riverheim for me." The Thynning family head walked to Starkan, and with one swift blow Starkan fell to the ground.
=== Third generation ===
After learning from his father, their families history with the Thynnings, Torsten felt dread after all they had killed the greatest fighter in the family. Torsten did not want to repeat his father and grandfather's mistakes so he changed the strategy. They used to gain power for two generations through military might and fear, but with him it will be intelligence and strategy.
Using the new strategy he was able to become a Mayor and an Imperial duke for Sylvania he adopted the migrating raven onto his families banner as he move from Riverheim to Naar'um, under his leadership Naar'um is thriving and he hasn't looked back since.
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Category:Traveler's Era