House Moreau

The House of Moreau was a noble and royal house of the nation of Valreach, in the Drakesland. Originally founded by Lagertha Helianthus and her last living son, Björn Helianthus, in the province of Edenheim, after the Helianthus Manor Fire, that killed half of the royal family. It was later restored by Ludivk Moreau Aulian at the Ludenschloss estate during the Valrean Civil War.
Very tied to the other Valrean royal house, house Moreau merged with the house of Aulian with the marriage of Vix Aulian and Lagertha Moreau, patriarch and matriarch of the respective houses, beginning a personal union between the two. House Moreau then became a branch of the wider Royal House of Aulian-Moreau.
== Heraldry ==
The emblem of the Moreau is composed by a howling wolf above a crescent moon on a cross over a black field. Designed by Lagertha Moreau herself, it represents the eternal mourning for the fallen family members during the Helianthus Manor Fire and the darkness that stained the bloodline due to the event. 
== History ==
The House of Moreau is marked by different tragedies caused by plenty of events, very tied to Valrean history. Its own foundation was the result of a family tragedy. However, it was the rift created by the civil conflicts in Valreach that torn the house apart, begining a new era its last members
=== Origins in Tragedy ===
Valreach was founded out of the merge between the Kingdoms of Nidaros and Nujh in a new diarchy. The ruling houses of Aulian of Nujh and Helianthus, of Aristii origins, based in Nidaros, oversaw the different governments until the crisis of the Holy Drakaen Empire. Vin Helianthus, main conspirator was deposed and Lagertha Helianthus became Diarch of Valreach with King Vix Aulian.
Six years after the rebellion, the Helianthus family was reunited in their oversea manor by the coasts of Valreach, where the former king, Vin, had been exiled. In an unclear development of events, a fire was declared in the manor, where Vin, and his son Ares, together with his wife, Elowin, died. Lagertha, her son Björn and his wife Maria survived and returned to Eradios, capital of the Realm and new household of the royal family.
After a long year of mourning the fallen Helianthus family, Lagertha and Björn decided to end with the Helianthus name, stained by the past and began their own line, the House of Moreau. They hosted a meeting in Eradios' keep where the Aulian royal house, composed then by Vix, his wife Tiffany and their offspring, Delta and Yorg, attended the banquet.
=== Royal Marriage ===
After the Helianthus tragedy, Lagertha had lost her husband. However, no one doubted of her grief for the long period in which she had been wearing black, color of the new royal house. The common belief among the Valrean court was that Lagertha would stay an unmarried widow for her lineage was ensured with Björn and Maria Moreau.
At the same time, the nation was struck by the news of the divorce of King Vix Aulian and Queen Tiffany Canalopin, who had been married since the year 95 TE. Here, many voices whispered different versions. Some point that Tiffany's marriage with Kendal Reach of Catania was the cause since the beginning, and that Tiffany's marriage with Vix was just a political union. It is true that Tiffany, mayor of Nidaros had always criticized King Vin and that could have been the reason she married his rival, King Vix. Some other sources, posterior to the Valrean civil war and contemporary to the Solen Mandate reforms point that King Vix had since early years of the Cold war seen the treacherous nature of Duchess Tiffany and that it was his duty to break the marriage. This theory, however, was most probably a rumour born of the propaganda campaigns against any Nidarosean figure. It is certain that Tiffany Canalopin had never rebelled as she died years before the Civil war.
Some gossips in the Valrean court sprouted since the divorce. They said that the ever-lasting mourning of High Queen Lagertha was a pure facade and that she had been in a secret relationship with High King Vix for a while. Some even say that the first encounters had already taken place before the tragedy in the Helianthus manor. Those gossips intensified when both diarchs married during the year 131 TE in Nidaros, in a ceremony conducted by the High Princess of Valreach and adoptive daugther of Vix, Delta Aulian.
The royal marriage meant a new era for the royal houses of Valreach and the Drakesland as a whole, for House Aulian and House Moreau stood united then in the House of Aulian-Moreau, rulling House of Valreach for many generations from then on.
=== Rebound lineage ===
During the civil war in Valreach, Bjorn Moreau rebelled against the High Kingdom of Valreach, together with other regional leaders. This led the half brother of the conspirator and natural son of the diarchs, Ludvik Moreau Aulian, to reform House of Moreau as a branch stretching from the Aulian-Moreau. The ideas for the re-establishment of the house sprung as a sign of patriotism to Valreach and loyalty to King Vix, which Ludvik and Ludenstadt swore loyalty to during the conflict.
== Inheritance ==
The succession of the Moreau house follow the principles of absolute primogeniture where the eldest child regardless of gender becomes the heir of the house. There is however an requirement to this rule. As to secure an heir to the throne the eldest must be married and have atleast one child of each gender or two females. If the eldest does not fulfill the specifications of this rule before the head of the house dies then the succsession will be transfered to the oldest of the younger siblings of the original heir. The eldest will inherit the title if none of the claimants fulfill the rule.
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