Valors

## Family Members

The stories say that Wolfric Valor could fell entire armies with one battle cry and rip off the heads of enemies with his bare hands. He'd united the fighting Northern clans to form a kingdom and built Wolf Hall as a wedding gift for his wife, Honora, after stealing her away from another. Honora is the greatest healer in all the North.

Aurora was said to be sweet and was always described as the most beautiful girl who'd ever lived, followed by her twin, Castor, who was said to be quite noble. Vesper could see the future. Tempest and Romulus another set of twins -were great inventors, responsible for the magical arches. Dane was some sort of shifter, and Lysander had a gift that involved memories.

Every story said they were handsome and kind and generous. The family was close, protective of one another, and beloved until something horrible happened.

## Family History

Bane Slaughterwood was Wolfric greatest friend and ally, so when he became king, he pledged that one of his daughters would marry Bane's eldest son. Aurora Valor and Vengeance Slaughteredwood had been betrothed since Aurora's birth.

Castor Valor was a part of the Merrywood Three, with Lyric Merrywood, and the Archer also known as Jack. Aurora was secretly in love with Jack, and she put the Archer’s curse on him, because her sister, Vesper, told her that Jack would fall in love with a fox. Jack broke free of the Archer curse, but when he kissed his fox she died.

Aurora wanted Vengeance Slaughterwood and Lyric Merrywood to give attention to Jack. Lyric, Lord Merrywood's only son, was too good-hearted to realize what a mistake it was to love Aurora Valor. He was so desperately in love with her, he dismissed the dangerous fact that she was engaged to Vengeance Slaughterwood.

Aurora acted to break off the wedding to marry Lyric Merrywood, but her father refused. Wolfric said she was a silly girl who knew nothing of love. Aurora told her father that she would go through with the marriage to Vengeance. But on the morning of the wedding, she ran away. That was when Vengeance learned of her affair with Lyric Merrywood. Castor tried to warn Lyric of the attack at Merrywood Manor. When Jack arrived, everyone was dead except for Castor. (Vengeance walked out alive before Jack got there.) Castor was stabbed in the back, and Jack brought him to Honora, but Castor died. Honora having great grief for her son’s death resurrected him, becoming a monster devouring human blood, he became Chaos. Chaos ended up killing the rest of the Merrywood family except for Lala.

The Valors built the Valory and sealed themselves inside except for Chaos, ending the Age of the Valors and ushering in the Age of Great Houses.

### The Ballad of Never After

When the Valor Arch was open, Chaos woke up his family. And Honora was able to break the curse of the Archer and the mirror curse, placed in Apollo and Evangeline.

### A Curse of True Love

Apollo felt indebted to her, making their family a Great House, House Vale, and gifting them the Merrywood land. Aurora plots to get Jack to be with her, and in the end Aurora ends up having to run away from her family, and Apollo is trapped in the Tree of Souls leaving the Valors with their kingdom.