The Serpineheit Family

The Serpineheits are a Nornish noble family that holds their estate in central Barrowbough. Outwardly, they are a family of accountants for other nobles. Their Estate was one that suffered heavy damages in the Earthquake.

## Members

### Grandon Serpineheit

An intimidating elvish man with long light blue hair and sharp eyes. He has tidy facial hair and wears a circlet on his forehead. He is shallow and cruel, and has succeeded passing these traits on to half of his children. He is skilled at swordplay and enjoys horse-riding. He is a pinnacle of toxic masculinity, and holds his three sons to a high standard of manliness. Quick to anger and violence, his booming wrath is feared by Justice and the household servants. During these times, he quickly gets what he wants. After Justice joined Augustine's employ, Grandon seemed to leave Justice alone more often, but perhaps that was imagined.

### Agnes Serpineheit (Formerly)

A woman with black hair. She was Grandon's first wife and mother to Lyam and Arutha. Not much is known about her by Justice. He never cared nor asked.

### Valouria Serpineheit (Formerly Valouria Victovour)

An orcish woman with long purple hair. She is often distant, especially to Justice, regarding him quite coldly. A stark contrast is her relationship with her daughter, who she pampers like a princess. She is not *as* violent, preferring to wage her battles with sharp words and psychological warfare. She married into the family over thirty years ago as Grandon's second wife. She is likely unhappy with her marriage, as she (or possibly Grandon) attempted to file for divorce. It is implied that it was due to Augustine's intervention she was unsuccessful.

### Lyam Serpineheit

A tall, serious, and fairly well-muscled man with shoulder-length blue hair and a heavy brow. He is Grandon's and Agnes' firstborn son and thus expected to inherit the family business. He is vocal about his degradation of commoners, to the point where Justice suspects he feels he has something to compensate for. He has a slight fear of garden gnomes.

### Arutha Serpineheit

A tall light-skinned **ponce** with black hair held back in a ponytail and a smooth face. In Justice's eyes, he is the more shrewd and scheming of the two brothers, but is still endlessly arrogant. He has won several archery competitions for the family. He is vain. He has a piece of hair that sticks up often, that he gets quite frustrated with. Justice would often use his invisible mage hand to make it worse.

* **Justice:** It's all for the show, brother. Is this not what you expected?
* **Arutha:** Father was right about you. We should have thrown you out.
* **Justice:** Father was right about *me*? I think he was right about *you*, coward.

### Justice Serpineheit

Son of Valouria. An outlier in the family. He the scholar son, awarding the family renown through academic achievements. He moves mostly unnoticed by other members and is often disregarded when it comes to family affairs. Upon hearing of the collapse of the Serpineheit Estate due to the Earthquake, he felt a bitter joy and sense of retribution.

### Purity Serpineheit

Daughter of Valouria. She hence has green skin from her orcish heritage as well as purple hair. She was spoiled and received a lot of attention growing up. Though she was pushed around a bit by her other brothers, she had a positive relationship with Justice.

## Quotes

* "You don’t want the Archivist to find out, do you?” - Grandon to Augustine, before being slapped
* "Many nobles believe that they're inherently better than commoners or that they have some sort of birthright, something special other than greed or luck. My family is like that." - Justice Serpineheit
* "Oh brother, always wanting to be unseen." "Running away again, brother? That's *so unlike you*." - Arutha, taunting Justice in the tournament.
* "You live because of me." - Justice to Arutha, getting some much needed control/catharsis in his life
* "You're.. not... like us." - Arutha to Justice, before falling to him in the tournament.