House Stoneheart I

"**Our Swords Stand Ready**! These are our words. This our virtue." - **Lord Olyvar** remembering the family words and repeating to his children and townsmen as he lies in the arms of his sons.

## Background

### Titles

Gates of Port Albertus, Knights of Dorkshire

## Information

### Heir

Benedict I Stoneheart, Irwin Stoneheart, Vácqupis Stoneheart, Cassius Stoneheart, Elton Stoneheart, Morien Stoneheart, Ramsay Stoneheart

## Strength

### Military

170 men; 120 cavalrymen, 50 guards

**House Stoneheart of Port Albértus** is a page house of the Vale, located in Southern Vale. **House Stoneheart** holds fealty to **House Greenfield**. It's seat is Olyvar's Hold, located in Port Albertus and its sigil is a pastoral staff on field of grey, representing its loyalty to the Duchy. They rule as **Lords of Dorkshire**.

## History

### Origin

In 83 CE, an outlaw army took control of a small garrison city near Port Albértus in the Easternlands. The Lord Viceroy of Northeast called his banners and marched on the garrison city at once, crushing the outlaws, and raised his loyal bannerman, **Ser Joseph Rivers** to lordship and appointed him as the Lord Commandant of the Garrison City, Dorkshire. Ser Joseph's cavalry, numbering fifty men were rewarded with knighthood, among them was a young sellsword, Olyvar Seaborn.

In 85 CE, **Ser Olyvar** rose to power as the Sergeant of the City Guard of Dorkshire, and his fate was blessed as in the **Summer of 85 CE**, the **Garrison City of Dorkshire** came under attack once more, but with the **Eastern Shores** under attack by a pirate navy, the Lord Viceroy of Northeast was engaged otherwise, and Dorkshire hand to stand a siege against an outlaw army twice their number.

In November 85 CE, Lord **Joseph Rivers** perished in a defensive stance against the outlaw army backed by mercenaries, one-third the size of the **Dorkshire Garrison**. After his death, men dispersed from the garrison for their lives, and this was when Ser Olyvar took leadership of the remaining soldiers in Dorkshire and used a **Farsian cavalry tactic** by ordering Lord Joseph's son, **Ser Elliot** to lead a vanguard of sixty men by the gates, while he appointed forty archers to guard the gates by the walls above, leading his men behind the garrison city. Ser Olyvar joined arms with a mercenary warlord, who gave him a cavalry of one hundred men.

When the enemy army of three hundred men attacked the **Gates of Dorkshire**, they were attacked by archers while Ser Olyvar who had joined arms with a hill tribe chieftain led a cavalry of one hundred men attacking the outlaws and mercenaries in a surprise ambush, crushing them, while those who survived became prisoners of war, some of whom were sold off to privateers for 70 coppers each. In return for defending Dorkshire Garrison, Ser Olyvar was raised to lordship and appointed as the Sheriff of Dorkshire and nicknamed, *"**Stoneheart**"*.

### Foundation

In the **Summer of 86 CE**, Lord Olyvar Stoneheart founded **House Stoneheart of Dorkshire** by decree from Lord-Viceroy Edgar Rivers and named his family after his nickname of battle.

When the city was expanded and rebuilt in 88 CE, **Lord Olyvar** constructed a garrison holding for Dorkshire that also acted as his office and home.

## Members

* Ser {Olyvar Stoneheart}, the **Founder of House Stoneheart**. The First Sheriff of Dorkshire and the First Lord of Dorkshire. Died in the **Battle of Fort Addams**.
	+ Lady {**Nora**}, his first wife. Privateer Captain of Merci. Died in a naval skirmish.
		- Lord {**Aeneas Stoneheart**}, his elder son. Lieutenant Officer of the Royal Navy. Died in a naval campaign.
			* Lady {Jéan de Vácqupis}, his wife and daughter of the Sheriff of Port Albértus.
				+ {**Morien Stoneheart**}, his son. Squire of Ser Ryam Alanwood.
					- Lady {Chloé Hale}, his fiancé.
	+ Lady {Halinor}, his wife and granddaughter of Chieftain Warlord Günthor Hammerhand.
		- Lord {Tomas Stoneheart}, his middle son. Former Sheriff of Dorkshire and Lord of Dorkshire.
			* Lord {Irwin Stoneheart}, his elder son. Knight of Dorkshire and Garrison Commander of Dorkshire.
			* Ser {**Elton Stoneheart**}, his middle son. Knight of Dorkshire and Captain of the City Guard of Dorkshire.
				+ Lady {**Emma Hale**}, his fiancé.
			* {**Ramsay Stoneheart**}, his younger son. Squire of Ser Warren Seaborn.
		- Ser {Samwell Stoneheart}, his younger son. Knight of Dorkshire, Garrison Commander and Castellan of Dorkshire. Died of wounds from the **Battle of Fort Addams**.
			* Lady {Chloé de Vácqupis}, his wife and daughter of the Sheriff of Port Albértus. Died in childbirth.
				+ Lord {Benedict I Stoneheart}, his elder son. Knight of Dorkshire and Castellan of Dorkshire.
				+ Ser {Vácqupis Stoneheart}, his middle son. Knight of Dorkshire and Sheriff of Port Albértus.
				+ Lady {**Abigáil Stoneheart**}, his daughter. Maiden of Dorkshire.
				+ Ser {Cassius Stoneheart}, his younger son. Knight of Dorkshire and Guard Captain of Lord Oswell Brune.