House Hawthorne

The most noble House of Hawthorne are an extinct cadet branch of House Blackthorne. Their creation grew from a time of upheaval in the Thunderlands, after the tyrannical Lucas Blackthorne had been deposed by his successor Lancelot Blackthorne. The large island of Whiteoak Plains, which had been given to the command of the various lickspittle knight Lucas had served, had fallen into disrepair. Lancelot's thirdborn son Hawley was given the task of bringing order to them once again. In the process he gained a rapport with the island and its peasantry. When he killed a wild Cockatrice that had been terrorizing the populace, he took its symbol as his own banner. Upon his father's death, Sir Hawley Blackthorne was given the Plains as his own dominion; his family were known for a while as "Hawley's Blackthornes," and then the "Hawleythornes," and eventually just the "Hawthornes." Hawley's descendants ruled as the most powerful of the Blackthorne's bannermen for nearly 400 years, before Arthur Hawthorne fought on the wrong side of the Second Blackthorne Civil War. Arthur's brother and heir, Jason, drowned during a naval battle while Jason's sons had already been killed in the war. The Lord himself was hanged for his treachery. Hawthorne's younger daughter remarried into the main line of House Blackthorne; his scheming elder daughter was married to a peasant soldier who had fought for the loyalists, and their descendants became House Waynrite.
Category:Noble Houses