Fianna and House Fiona

== The Fianna and House Fiona==
Long before the Romans arrived and began to build Isca Fortress in 75 AD, the Garou and Fae in the area that is now the Borderland Protectorate/Principality of Gwynt had limited ties to each other, mostly involving humans descended from one being taken as lovers by the other. By the 400s, area had the culture that later gave birth to the "Dreamland of Camelot" and many legends shared by both. No two stories describe the relationships between the two races between the two races before the Shattering the same way but they were definitely intertwined, passionate and often tragic.
Then came the Shattering in 1348 and the Black Plague which reached the region in early 1349. The Garou were desperately trying to save their kinfolk and deal with the spiritual ramifications of the the plague. The Fae commoners were struggling simply to exist. Many freeholds and sacred glens that had traditionally belonged to the Fae were abandoned- and claimed by the Garou. The Fae discovered that kinfolk, especially those with feyblood, the perfect vessels for the Changeling Way. By the time the area was free of plague, some of the Fianna and Changelings had become very embittered towards each other and kept to their own as much as possible. However, both continued to interbreed with the same families, creating an entire subculture of kinain/kithain mortals, feyblooded Fianna and kinfolk Changelings, especially in Caerleon and Magor.
When the Resurgence came in 1969 and House Fiona rode forth and sought to reclaim Lion's Gate and whatever freeholds still remained, the commoners did not welcome them and fought back violently. The Fianna got pulled in through their blood ties to both sides of the conflict. Then abruptly in May of 1970, only weeks after the Accordance War officially began, King Jubal Constantine of Austere Howlcalled a Concolation. He commanded that the protectorates of Great Britain give their support to the Sidhe. The Constantines had thier own bloodties to House Gwydion and the sidhe had discovered that a certain oath sworn by one of Jubal's ancestors at the end of the War of Silver and Iron had granted the Gwydion the ability to make certain demands upon them all.
In early 1975, months before the end of the Accordance War elsewhere, House Fiona had secured the duchy and a peace treaty was signed. Of the four major freeholds in the region, three were claimed by House Fiona and one was allowed to remain in the custody of the commoners. The current Sidhe Duke, Baron and Baroness are not kinfolk; the Boggan Emlyn Davies who rules "The Owl's Nest" within Caerleon village is however.