House Manhauser

The crest of Manhauser

**House Manhauser** is a family and clan settled in Vaegnr Colony that used to be one of the greatest clans of its age. It was formerly the Kingdom of Manhauser (King's Dome of Mann-Hausenner) during the Greatest Age, from 97 ST - 176 ST. Their territory had stretched from the highest peak of Mt. Skald to the flattest plains of the Fjord of the Fallen.

## Independence and the Kingdom of Manhauser

The Kingdom of Manhauser first gained its independence in 89 ST from the Aesgardiun League, specifically the mini-nation Musphel. It was first called the New Mann-Hausenner League until 97 ST when it became the Kingdom of Manhauser. Musphel's many forgeries and mountains of wealth was inherited by the Kingdom of Manhauser as they began to prosper, creating 14 boats where they first colonized the North Islands. On the North Islands they built a large aqueduct transporting the water of the island's largest mountain, Mt. Manhauser, to the current capital city of the North Islands, New Edgeport. New Edgeport was a vital city during the kingdom's conquest, with it's large storage of gold allowing Frida-Thyra Manhauser in 107 PT to sail to The West where she conquered tribal grounds and later returned, having never built a colony but bringing Western inventions such as Beer pour, Maces, Runes, and gable roofs to the Manhausers. With this, their colonies and mainland began to grow even stronger. They'd become one of the largest, and most powerful, nations on the map.

During the Greatest Age [97 ST - 176 ST] most people of the Kingdom of Manhauser were inclined to follow the new, popular, rapidly spreading religion at the time. Trut. Trut was an ancient Religion believing that only the citizens of the strongest empire can reach the afterlife, leaving everyone to be born again over and over again with none of their memories from their past life, going from intelligent and important beings like humans to beetles or flies. Later, this was disproved by philosophers of the Philosophy Race in 180 ST yet at the time it had caused rapid industrialization, militarization, and the need for war to gain new lands.

## The Downfall of Manhauser

From 179 ST to 228 ST is considered the "Downfall of Manhauser" and was caused for a variety of reasons, with the most important being economical instability, panic brought from the Trut religion, and attacks from other nations and even companies.

In 179 ST the King of Manhauser at the time, Magnus Erik Manhauser-Hakpron (or just King Magnus) officially recognized the traveling merchant company of Vaegnr, descendants of the natives from The West who had been brought and enslaved by Frida-Thyra Manhauser in 107 ST, that were given territory on the easternmost end. in 180 ST King Magnus was growing old [age 67] and needed a wife to wed, so he chose Morrigan Morchadha, a western native from the Vaegnr Company, [age 53] and they had two children, Magnus Morchadha II and Villias Manhauser. Magnus II was older but chose the Morchadha name, forcing his younger sister Villias to become the first (and last) Queen of Manhauser at age 7 in 186 ST. Queen Villias Manhauser ruled until she was 19 when she got sick and died, with Magnus, who was 21 at the time, taking over in 198 ST The choices the young, influenced, Magnus II had made brought instability to the Kingdom and in 199 ST, just a couple months after he'd began his reign, the kingdom began to fall because of revolution in the mainland and acquisition of the North Islands by the Vaegnr Company, who had turned on the Manhauser family.

In the year 200 with King Magnus II in hiding the last stronghold of the Kingdom of Manhauser, New Edgeport, was beginning to crack. The Edict of New Edgeport was a treaty that decided Manhauser, once a great kingdom and now reduced to a small sovereign state ruling over 17 cities in the North Islands, ruled by the Vaegnar Colony - a new empire that owned the North Islands and even a small tribal setting in The West. Soon, The Vaegnr Company grew sick of the Manhausers and in the year 218, under the rule of Magnus Morchadha III the Manhausers were reduced to a simple civilian family with an undying legacy.