Minor Noble Houses

**House Pearcus**
House Pearcus, due to the reputation of Duskar across most of the world, hasn’t been very influential outside of the Dukarian refugee people under their will they brought with them when coming to the Kingdom of Varia. Slowly they begin to regrow their number of Duskarian Knights, and due to them participating the less than many of the noble houses many have come to believe they are simply planning to make a move of Varia once everyone else’s armies are exhausted after the crises.

**House Hutchphrey**
After the sovereign of the Empire, Emperor Safuk Kegback, died mysteriously of what many to believe to of been an assassination by one of the other noble houses, and the encroaching Unded invaders, House Hutchphrey was the only major and well known noble house of the Iarann Empire that decided to leave. The stubbornness of Dwarves persisted as all but House Hutchphrey and the refugees that came with stayed behind to defend their Empire, only for the Undead to overwhelm their great cities and slaughter their people mercilessly.
Now situated within the Kingdom of Varia, House Hutchphrey has claimed lands known for being rich in minerals and has begun to regain their former glory of selling sets of tools, weapons and armors except this time via trading with other noble houses both major and minor within this new country.

**House Ackdalf**
It reached a point where King Kosak was very close to declaring them heretics and was writing the order to Lady Lariot to send her army to siege their fief and seize their lands but the impending undead threat ceased the King from taking such a rash action. It was when House Chalsmith came into contact with House Rainguard of the Kingdom of Celarin that Lord Vezio decided to approach House Ackdalf as one of the last remaining vassals with the resources to move around Astroth to send one of their own along with a ship from the Idosian Navy to Estadia.
Currently House Ackdalf has sworn full vassalage and loyalty to the Kingdom of Varia, though many believe this loyalty is not as true as they claim and they’re only waiting for a more powerful monarch to come along before they switch their oath to them. What many of the more attentive have learned from watching the actions of House Ackdalf over it’s many years of existence is that knowledge is power, but can only be obtained by following whoever the most influential royal is.

**House Vladimiri**
Count Denis eventually fell ill with a sickness his doctors have never seen before, his skin turned gray, eyes turned yellow and red and he grew retractable fangs from his teeth on the roof of his mouth, and soon servants began to disappear. Soon Count Denis’ family began to experience the same sickness until all members of the Valdmiri family were like this and surprisingly eager to stay out of the sunlight, though their way of ruling over their lands had yet to change in the slightest, besides reports of commoners disappearing in the night and the castle guards seemingly almost zombie-like.
It was not until the Undead invasion that what appeared to be an attempted coup by the zombie-like servants and guards of the castle that House Vladimiri announced a great migration of his people from their land of Nirica to the Kingdom of Varia where they settled anew. Though now within the depths of their new castle it is believed by many horrid Dark Magic spells and experiments are being practiced as more commoners disappear at night, whether these are true or not nobody can confirm nor deny due to the palace guards not letting anyone from outside of House Vladimir in and members of their family never leaving during the day.

**House Ludween**
As expected, House Ludween originally lived deep underground in a vast cave network somewhere underneath the lands of the Kingdom of Idos where they mined minerals in order to create great machines which would increase their quality of life. Eventually the Kingdom of Idos found out about House Ludween deep underground after a series of natural disasters which caused the ground to collapse from their caving efforts.
They sent a force of Paladin Knights to go seek out what was causing these discrepancies and found a large colony of Kobolds living below, by this point in time they did not have the manpower to simply invade them and take their machinery due to the ongoing Undead crises and were forced to try diplomacy and told the Kobolds about the encroaching threat. When House Ludween realized they and House Chalsmith both had to abandon their homelands they made a deal for once they reached the Kingdom of Varia, House Chalsmith will give them raw resources for their machines and warriors and give them legitimacy and in return they fight and build for House Chasmith. Now they stand as allies during the crises fighting side by side against the Undead invaders and are believed to both be planning to maintain their legitimacy at all costs.

**Gugnox Dynasty**
The style of interpreting the Great Spirit that the Gugnox have taken on falls in line with the traditional warrior-Esque needs of their culture. The Gugnox Dynasty has had a rivalry with another Ork dynasty known as the Zrazdrok Dynasty, but were forced to leave with them to Varia after the Undead defeated both of their armies in the initial invasion. Now the Gugnox Dynasty fights on the frontlines of the war sending their Barbarian Warriors to take revenge on the Undead that destroyed their Klan.

**Zrazdrok Dynasty**
Just because they’re an Orkish Dynasty whose members consist of a lot of physically weaker Zhomo Warriorz does not mean they are weaker in strength, and in fact they used to rule over one of the largest Ork Klans in Astroth only rivaled by their enemies the Gugnox Dynasty. They worship The Great Spirit, yet abide by a much more spiritual engagement with the deity that falls in closer line to the Sylvan inclinations yet still abiding by Orkish ideas of honor. Currently just like the Gugnox Dynasty they fight on the frontlines of the war against the hordes of Undead invaders though less through throwing hordes of Orkish warriors back at them but instead through tactical planning and deceiving their foes.

**Mechanorus Clan**