House Bell

House Bell was a former chivalry house in the Butterfly Queendom granted administration powers over a the village of a village in the Queendom. However the House was found to be manipulating the House Butterfly and committing treason and was subsequently destroyed.

### History

In 395 A.M. House Price would be given administrative powers over a the village of a village in the Butterfly Queendom by Royal Decree of Queen Helia Butterfly after these villages suffered a food sortage. This decision was seen as highly controversal. As a gift on confidence Queen Helia also gave the House fruits from her gold and silver trees.

However, 34 years later, during the Celestial Winter, head of House Bell, Lady Mara Bell, along with Lady Leah Fox and Lady Dirhhennia Price came to Butterfly Castle to request finanical aid from Queen Celestia Butterfly to help maintain the villages they were responsible for. They most likely manipulated the emotional state of Celestia Butterfly. They would ask for multiple large loans from The Crown and would never pay them back. After many occurances of this happening House Stone investigated and found this was a crime and since they were loans from The Crown, it to be High Treason. However, Queen Celestia refused to allow any action to be taken against the House, stating they were crucial to the stability of the Queendom. House Stone would then go to King-Consort Jasper Stone, where he convinced Celestia to stop making the loans. House Price along with House Fox and **House Bell** would begin to pay maids and servants of Butterfly Castle to start to spread rumors about the King-Consort having an extramarital affair. Their motives are debated but it believed that it was payback for the King-Consort preventing The Queen from making loans as well as to cause a rift between The Queen and King-Consort so she began to give more loans.

This plan would work and Queen Celestia would begin to write secret loans to the houses. In 431 A.M., a year after the King-Consorts death, Princess Meteora Butterfly would overhear two servants talking when she approached them and asked if either of them were the late King-Consort's supposed lovers. The maids avoided questioning, but suspicious, Meteora would follow one of them home at dusk. She discovered that she had better life compared to the other commoners. She questioned the maid and she revealed that she had been paid by House Bell, Price, and Fox to spread rumors. Meteora returned to the castle and found her mother signing more loans to the houses. Meteora, would take the letters from her mother and throw them into the fireplace, calling her mother a "ruler without firmness and foolish attitudes.", which later she said she regretted.

In 432 A.M. Meteora would then send letters by Razor Crane to the Houses ordering them to submit payment for the loans, however as only Crown Princess and not yet Royal Princess, Meteora would threaten the The Queen and the Mewnistry would take action, despite this being a lie. She stated if they did not have the means to pay they were to send hostages as insurance until the debt was paid. The Houses refused. Meteora, without consulting her mother, summonded the houses to the castle to answer for their disloyalty and treason. All three houses refused and rose in revolt starting the Red Winter Rebellion.

Meteora would gather all Butterfly Forces who were willing to follow her command and 'fight for the honor of Queen and Queendom.' Many Men-at-arms and knights would join her. Meteora's forces would march to Bell Hall, where their arrival would be so quick and such a surprise that House Bell could not gather their allies and barely close the castle gates and summon their forces. Lady Mara Bell and her daughter Lady Bethesda Bell rode out with her small forces to confront Meteora's much larger force. After a short but bloody battle the Bell forces were defeated. All House Bell members, including Lady Mara and Bethesda Bell were beheaded along with any captured or remaining Bell forces. Meteora's forces would then destroy both House Price and Fox.