House Wrencrest

**House Wrencrest of the Grand Hall** is one of the principal houses of the Iron Plaines. Their seat is Gunter's Hill in the heart of their namesake city, Wrencrest.

Their coat of arms is four silver wrens chasing each other on a sable field. Their motto is *We Sing for Weal*, though *And Fly to Battle* is often affixed for the purpose of a battelcry. House Wrencrest hold the fealty of four houses—the Breyths, the Dunholds, the Rayginses, and the Riverlings—and is itself a vassal house of the Barrmounts.

The house's territory covers a great swath of land in the southern portion of the Iron Plains, spilling from Wrencrest along the great downslope of the landscape. Their land tapers to a thin corridor so that it may reach and encompass the small port town of Eelmouth, one of the late Lord Harald's many reckless acquisitions.

The Wrencrests are related to House Skagerlly through the marriage of Wraymina Wrencrest to the late Lord Skagerlly. Wraymina, the aunt of Lord Bennard, mothered Lord Radgore Skagerlly, making the lords of either house first cousins. The house also has two cadet branches:

* House Wrencrest of Castle Gentlebend, led by Lord Arnald Wrencrest, who rule the manor of Gentlebend from their castle a few miles upriver.
* House Wrencrest of Castle Esmer, led by Lord Wrollymer Wrencrest, who own land in Reaper's Skull, south of Wingsway.

## Traits

Physically, Wrencrests are known for three things: their ghostly countenances, consequential of their platinum-blond hair, bone-white skin, and sky-blue eyes; their often-crooked noses, a mark of their frequent inbreeding in past generations; and their slight, somewhat short builds.

The Wrencrests are rumoured to have gotten their ghostly pale looks from an affair between Prince Hulward the Flighty and one of the Azaryan witches he hired to help him betray the Northwinder warlord Tancrede and plunder his holdings. The sorcerous powers of his descendant, Wraynard II (otherwise known as Wraynard the Wraith) all but confirm this dark heritage for many, even though no Wrencrests have displayed any magical ability since the Wraith, not even one of his thirteen sons.

## Member

* Bennard Wrencrest, also known as 'Benn', elder son of Lord Harald and Lady Ivagneth Wrencrest.
	+ Adelhayd Torck, Lord Bennard's wife. She is the mother of Hulward and Ivagneth.
		- Hulward Wrencrest, Lord Bennard's son and heir, also known as 'the Wine-Red Wren'.
		- Ivagneth Wrencrest, Bennard and Adelhayd's daughter.
* Ser Lackner Wrencrest, the younger son of Lord Harald and Lady Ivagneth. He a knight and a member of the household guard, with a small manor outside the city.
	+ Lady Cleina Baben, Sir Lackner's wife. She is the mother of Feineth Wrencrest.
		- Feineth Wrencrest, Lackner and Cleina's daughter and only child.

### Household

* Hadryd Raygins, ward of Lord Bennard. A young son of Lord Byron.
* Elgar Breyth, ward of Lord Bennard, the youngest son of Lord Chaonard.
* Moralyon, vagrohl of Wrencrest.
* Brother Alymer, tutor of Lord Bennard and Lady Adelhayd's children. He is a member of the Order of the Bronze Hand.
* Alvyn Reed, steward of Wrencrest.
* Ser Rasiphe de Caudebec, captain of Lord Bennard's household guard.
* ..., the bardic knight of the household and one of Lord Bennard's closest advisors.
* Slaron, chamberlain of Gunter's Hill.