Veltz Family

The **Veltz family** is an extinct house that had magically gifted people that resided in The House of Veltz. Though the family has dwindled down to mere numbers, their influence on the land and people around them still grow. To some, they will always be the greatest family to ever walk on Aurelia.

## History

Before the arrival of the elves and halflings, Aurelia was in a small civil war with the country of Tirania. For years, people of Aurelia had no magic due to the War Treaty banning magic, many millennia ago. Such things had been forbidden for anyone to learn, and as such these settlers came with only their wits and hard work to build the new kingdoms. Unfortunately, this lack of magic put the humans of Aurelia at a great disadvantage when the forces of Darkfallen started to rise up again. Although no one in Aurelia had the teaching to perform magic, children would sometimes be born that could harness great power without even knowledge of a single spell. One such magically gifted person was Marcus Veltz, who would come up with the idea of bringing many of these people together into a sort of team. Searching through those orphaned during the years of the war, he would find several children who possessed great magical strength. Taking them as his own children, they would together become the Veltz Family that would protect Aurelia for years.

For years, the Veltz Family would protect the province, but over time they would be driven apart by hatred. The last straw broke when Marcus died, and from that point forward they would stay apart. Over the next years they would all slowly die. Sadly this hatred would mean that none of the siblings would follow Marius wish of continuing the search and teaching of magically gifted children, as he had done for them, which led to their legacy being all but forgotten for many years outside of the Ryalis region.

## Known members

### Marcus Athis Veltz

A powerful magic user, he was the one who adopted the many magically gifted around the country of Ryalis during the civil war. From the stories he told the Veltzs, it was assumed that he was immortal, but this was not the case. In 570 BC he would die, and soon after the Veltzs would separate. He believed that the Veltz family must stay together, and fight for the people of Aurelia without payment.

### Theodrick Ulfrick Veltz

The master of ice magic, he is remembered to this day for the freezing of the Northern Castillian Plains which is known as the Castillion Tundra. He lived in a mansion in what would become the Blistering Peak, and unlike his adopted father Marcus, believed that as the protector of Castillion, he deserved payment in both food and gold. Using the money he took from the towns he protected, he built his home into a massive mansion filled with valuables. As he lived in splendor, the towns people that he protected were poverty stricken, and often feared him as much as the monsters he guarded them against.

Theodrick's ice magic was incredibly useful, because it was able to slow the spread of the Corruption. Late in his life he would gather a group of soldiers and head to the Corruption Gash. Although unwise he would succeed in reaching the Underworld, but in the process his mind would become corrupted into madness. Upon his return, he froze himself and all of the Northern Castillion Plains in order to stop the spread of the corruption in the region and give time for someone to arrive that could actually kill him in that corrupted state. Although his final intentions were noble, most of the people who lived in the region would die as it froze, and many more would die trying to kill him in the years to come.

### Lys Rhys Veltz

Unlike his siblings, Lys was not all that combat oriented. His ability was to see and communicate with the dead and while he could summon a form of magic wisps of energy, this was hardly the same as what his siblings could muster. Because of this, he would spend near all his time in the Veltz Mansion putting the spirits of the dead to rest. Because of his connection to the dead, Lys was generally unpopular among the other Veltzs, and actively hated by Theodrick for his kindly treatment of the many spirits he came into contact with.

### Jasper Dali Veltz

Jasper wielded fire magic. She, along with her other siblings, left the Veltz Manor after Marcus' death. There is no explanation as to how she specifically died, but it was almost certainly to the Darkfallen.

### Jules Zephyr Veltz

Jules was capable of performing air magic. After leaving the Veltz, she would start a family. One of his descendants is Kiara. Considering she was able to have a family and raise kids, Jules probably lived a little longer than most of the Veltz, but eventually like the others she too would fall.