House of Airgethlam

The house of Airgethlam is an ancient house originating in the lost land of Ciela. It's members usually share tragedies and deep feelings of emptiness with each other caused by a ancient course. Notable members include Hock III. or Hock V.

## Timeline

### Hock I.

Not much is known about Hock I. yet she seems to play mayor roles in family legends and stories.

What however is known is that her parents where of humble origins and wanted her to escape these circumstances at any costs. She was regularly beaten and her contact with friends restricted, under the pretence that love and friends are not what great people need. This however lead her to develop a deep sense of hatred towards her parents. One day, during her regular study of astronomy, she problem that went unsolved for 200 years but included one error at the end giving the theory a discrepancy of 0.00000001%. While Hock tried to calm her parents about it they begun to punish her.

In panic she struck a deal with higher powers. Those then annihilated her parents with the price that from this day on their family would experience a never ending streak of tragedy.

### Hock II.

Hock II. is the direct daughter of Hock I. and someone known by the name 'Airgethlam', giving the house its name.

For a while Hock I tried to spare her from the course imposed on their family. That worked until the death of Hock I. at witch point the ancient course reawakened and begun to drive her into madness. This madness drove her to switch her child with those of a normal peasant family as a last act of sanity. The peasant child she adopted wouldn't be subject to the curse.

### Hock III.

The adopted child became Hock III.

However, when she was just 20 years old a band of murderous and barbaric vandals destroyed her home before her own eyes. Herself only surviving in a secret hiding chamber in their house. Finally stepping outside again she then stumbled over the crown of their fallen king. Picking it up and crowning herself as the new queen she swore that she will wage revenge over those who had destroyed her home.

Yet during her journey she encountered both unspeakable goodness and great evil. Finally, confronting the man who had burned her home, she instead chose to forgive them and instead let history take revenge for her.

### Hock IV.

After Hock III. abandoned her hateful course she gave life to her son Hock IV. Yet seeing what the strive for revenge had done to her as a child she chose to neglect him so his mind would never engage in hate. However this had the effect of him developing a sense of jealously towards others who his mothers shared a deep friendship with.

While trying to finally make his mother pied he pushend it to far witch lead Hock III. to banish him. In exile he continued on building his knowledge by further recaching.

Finally developing a method to transfer part of his mind into a manmade lifeform and sending it on a mission to collect more knowledge from all parts of the world.

### Hock V.

Hock IV.s clone was on a mission to collect knowledge when the mental connection was cut and he suddenly get self consciousness and became Hock V.

The overwhelming force made him pass out, when he awoke he found himself in a new and strange land. Without any meaning or purpose he begun to wander this new place until finding the answer on who he is and what his place in the world is.