Era of Lost Houses

### Overview

It's marked by the first revolt against the now destroyed House Futh in regards to rising wage gap disparity and a small plague. Pure bloodlines were destroyed in the revolutionary time of civil unrest. Houses that had previously stood for hundreds of years were laid to waste by angry workers and spiteful peasants. Dronshaun only survived by retreating to various islands and archipelagos and adopting lesser bloods into various roles. Straidokh remained strong because they kind of didn't discourage any pillaging or plundering. Daelek survived because they had already incorporated a fuckton of worker's rights into their trade routes and had a large number of Te'en mercs at their disposal to protect their most important Lords and Ladies.

### Leading Events

House Futh arose during the middle of the fourth era in what is now the city of Aill on the west coast of Ha during the Great Peace. House Futh was originally founded by some wealthy intellectuals who established a wealthy university in present day Aill. During the Great Peace, the school flourished, Aill flourished, the global economy was lit. With increased education and increased trade and better global communication, naturally citizen unrest followed through.

Inner city education was significantly more accessible in Aill, then known as F'Aillen, mostly at the hand of the local university. Futh ended up building an opulent estate on the outskirts of F'Aillen, only about seven kilometers out from the upper north-west side of the city. After forty years of rapid expansion, the estate was a short jaunt from the nearest busy street. By the catalyst, anyone could spend an hour and either catch a ride or a walk over to the palatial property of the Futh Estate.

Tensions in the city were running high, and Houses during this time were not quite the same as they are currently. House Futh, like many of the older houses of this time, was more hereditary. The heirs and wealthiest members were familial. And House Futh, like many of the oligarchic powers of the time, controlled the government and the city from urban development to tax collections to their own sense of justice. And while they were not particularly corrupt, the civilians were not entirely pleased towards the end with not being represented in where their city went or where their money went.

Though the Great Peace lasted only sixty earth years, the quality of life for most citizens in the cities increased. House Futh was not the most powerful House on Kur, nor did it have the largest population. It did however, have all the ingredients to make the explosive event to mark the end to the Great Peace. F'Aillen was in the massive delta of the Shiikshawl and Tvav Rivers and was a major city for trade during this time period. It was also a major semi-coastal city for many immigrants from Fos and the Islands of Nassan. As a massive melting pot, there were hundreds of views on how to improve the city and the lives therein. In the slums, the poor and the new immigrants finally had access to basic education. The exploding middle class was able to study the ebb and flow of goods and government. Seeing the wealth and opulence of Futh stirred the masses.

There were those who enjoyed the peace of the status quo. Not everything was perfect, but it was stable, and quality of life was the best it had been for centuries. Historians refer to those as Stablists. Conversely, a majority of the population were mildly upset, but not particularly upset until a very small outbreak of cholera in the slums on the south side. This gained traction amongst the Dissenters, as historians retroactively refer to them, which spawned a small sect of radicals known as the Hawfawlii, or the Headbands, for the iconic red head scarves they would end up wearing in their street skirmishes. Hawfawlii made up perhaps four percent of all of the population initially, but after the Catalyst, Hawfawlii gained power and traction not only through F'Aillen, but through other cities of the day.

#### Breakdown of the Catalytic Event

The agreed-upon action that marks the Era of Lost Houses in the eyes of all historians is the storming of the manor of House Futh in 5E 96. Upset with rising wage disparity between the prominent middle class and the leaders of the wealthy House Futh, masses stormed through the front gardens during The Memorial of Crowns ceremony. Heir Apparent Honya Futh was to give a speech and lead the ceremony for the masses, as House Futh did every year at the start of the winter season. Upset that they were not being represented in any of their pleas, the crowd surged past the podiums and mobbed Honya Futh. On site guards and security personnel injured fifty seven and killed another sixteen citizens. Enough of the scene was recorded by local journalists that word quickly spread through the region and then the continent.

When word reached the other side of the city, which only took a matter of minutes really, the city was immediately in a panic. Dissenters, though not an actual organized group, would generally rally to raise arms. Hawfawlii over the passing months would accumulate to roughly eight percent of the population. Stablists stayed in their homes, largely, and avoided confrontation. Eventually, more aggressive stablists would become, colloquially in F'Aillen as Uzyepkyomma, or Those Who Bring Order. Conversely, they were estimated to be about ten to eleven percent of the F'Aillen population, but of that percent, only a few took up arms against the Headbands.

### Global Effects

F'Aillen underwent a massive civil war, the effects of which were felt in Shaun, K'wi and even Thred. Gansh had the worst civil war. As an industrial city with massive immigration from the Islands of Nassan and Falil, it also experienced a large outbreak of plague, which spurred more public unrest. House Iipatazha fell in four days. Copious amounts of weapons had been stockpiled in Gansh for the past several years, and when given an excuse, the uprising in that city was powerful. House Iipatazha was a corrupt house that was toppled from corruption within, with allegedly the Major General defecting overnight and murdering the Head of House in their sleep.

In current Jwo La, known as Kanjwolla, the leading House of Dealek was residing at the time. As an ancient House, they were mostly a name at most at this time, with small holdings as a figure-head business in politics at most. Throughout the Great Peace, and subsequently the Era of Lost Houses, Dealek was able to weather the public opinion and sway with much support to the whims of the citizens in the city. Kanjwolla/ Jwo La was largely untouched and remained a massive center for art and cultural development even during this tumultuous time. Dealek was ruled mostly through sympathetic citizens who prioritized independence and trade equality over political reform. Having reached general stability within the main city, House Dealek and the rest of Kanjwolla continued trading with other major cities, military equipment included, the trade off being that the city would be largely quarantined.

Falil, still Falil at the time, was lost. The two main Houses there, Blikai and Garnut, were slowly ground into only history. Anger on the less wealthy and colder climate of Fos caused massive economical implosion. Plague had been wracking Falil in the slums, and even some of the upper class sectors for decades. Medicinal imports from F'Aillen were the only things keeping Falil from collapsing. When the civil war there erupted, Falil swiftly collapsed into its own, much bloodier civil war. A estimated thirty percent of the population took up arms against the Blikai and Garnut Houses. Though largely untrained, the sheer number of angry and armed citizens obliterated the local governments over the next decade.

The Illian Islands were never ruled by one House or had House styled governments. Instead, the local chiefs and even Be'Te, the largest city ruled by a monarchal parliament, waived to the masses. The Great Peace would extend to Be'Te for another several decades unlike on the mainlands. Be Shaun on the northeast of Fos was a slow, untidy collapse. The ruling family there dispersed themselves into the local masses and emigrated to other Houses in hopes of survival.

The most unaffected, as always, was the southern peninsula. The city of Kwi experienced some mild upheaval and the local government, a theocracy at the time, was met with some small civil unrest, but largely powered through evoking the name of their god at the time.

The most dimorphic city was Bern. House Straidokh was a House notably different from other ruling Houses in that it incorporated the common man. As a result, this diffused much of the class warfare that F'Aillen experienced. However, because of its iconic name and history, a portion of the city was against it on principle. Straidokh is recorded in most all credible sources as making all efforts to accommodate the citizens requests for reformed government. Straidokh did have to take a backseat as only a coat of arms for a few decades before the public, and public relations of the time, deemed familial members safe enough to reemerge into small government roles.

The illustrious House Dronshaun retreated to Be'Te withen Te'en warriors to protect them all around the clock. Many older houses did not survive the slaughter. But some of them did survive into modern aristocracy and then minor roles through marrying into other Houses. In current times, those bloodlines are for minor coat of arms that the average civilian will not recognize. Only historians and old blue blood might care about old crests.