The Founders

The Founders refers to the seventy-two families that founded Haven, twelve to start each of the eventual castes. Their last names continue to be the only in use in the city to this day.

## The Founding

After the Fall, land became scarce and people had to act fast to gain even the smallest safe areas. Many had fled to Firestar, the capital of Elysia, in hopes that they had fared better than their own homelands. It was quickly discovered that they had been hit almost harder than most other areas, the ocean that they had so famously sat on having dried up over night. Without magic, there was nothing that could be done.

Humans spread out in all directions in hopes of finding land that could be claimed for a new home. Small bands of less than twenty families went off in search of tenable land. Many died in the heat of the early days of the Great Desert and many more of starvation.

By the grace of the gods, six groups found their way to the area that would become Haven, an oasis large enough for a city to be founded. Although it could have easily become a small war over the territory, the six leaders of the groups, who would later become known as the Council of New Beginnings, decided to organize into one civilization instead. Though no group wanted to compromise their own culture or values, the council was able to come up with a plan that would allow the groups live in harmony and depend upon one another's skills for survival peacefully.

The city of Haven, known as the City of the Found, was planned and built, leaving room for farming, hunting, and mining.

## Factions

### **Amethyst**

#### Pre-fall

The people of the Amethyst caste originally hailed from the city of Versayse. They were high-society urbanites whose community valued strong laws and had strict rules for what was and was not acceptable. They held frequent council meetings to decide on laws for every new thing that came up. It was said that there was not a fathomable situation that the people of their city had not made a law for.

#### Families

* Byrne
* Calloway
* Connor
* Collins
* Flynn
* Gallagher
* Kennedy
* Moore
* Murphy
* Reilly
* Sullivan
* Walsh

### **Sapphire**

#### Pre-fall

The people of the Sapphire caste hailed from Itos, the City in the Clouds. This once spectacular city was surrounded by strong illusion magic to give the appearance of being unreachable by those on the ground. Without the particular magic spell needed to part the clouds, a potential invader could spend weeks lost before giving up. As such, almost all members of their society studied magic to at least a small degree.

#### Families

* Anders
* Bakken
* Edman
* Fredrikson
* Gustason
* Helvig
* Leif
* Matsen
* Olson
* Sandberg
* Taft
* West

### **Jade**

#### Pre-fall

The people of the Jade caste once hailed from the wilds of Amtekiis. Their homes and work spaces were woven into nature, often carved into the very trees surrounding them. This multi-leveled city was comprised of bridges that were grown from vines and branches that connected one location to the next. They made every effort to impact the world around them in the smallest ways possible, all while keeping themselves off of the ground below.

#### Families

* Chen
* Huang
* Ito
* Li
* Lu-ren
* Nakamura
* Nguyen
* Pak
* Sato
* Suzuki
* Tanaka
* Zhao

### **Amber**

#### Pre-fall

Before the fall, the people of the Amber caste hailed from Firestar, the capital city of the continent of Elysia. The city was a thriving hub of commerce and included the largest port in the world. Laws were in favor of exports and imports, making trade so easy that it was said that a family might have goods from at least five different regions on their dinner table every night.

#### Families

* Blaise
* Blanc
* Bonnet
* Chaput
* Chevalier
* Domingo
* Dubois
* Esposito
* Rios
* Rossi
* Sanchez
* Valdez

### **Topaz**

#### Pre-fall

The people of the Topaz caste hail from the war-torn Trillia region where a new lord would sit on the throne every few years, each and every one of them put there by a new coup. The biggest industries were related to these battles: smithing, mining, and military schools

#### Families

* Aspro
* Babiker
* Chouraqui
* Dahmani
* Elbaz
* Gammafi
* Haliche
* Jlassi
* Mazigh
* Talia
* Zammit
* Zaouche

### **Garnet**

#### Pre-fall

The Snowburn region of Elysia, once located to the far north of the continent, was the home of those who now call themselves the Garnet caste. Life was difficult in this region since a layer of permafrost made farming almost impossible. Fishing and hunting expeditions often took parents away from their children for weeks at a time, if they made it back at all thanks to the vicious creatures of the north and even more dangerous weather conditions.

#### Families

* Bakalov
* Chayka
* Filipek
* Havel
* Horvat
* Ivanov
* Jaskulski
* Melnyk
* Novak
* Petski
* Stefka
* Velki