House Perisynt

House Perisynt is an extremely young noble House - so young, in fact, that its founder is still alive. They are not particularly well known among Aodhian nobility due to their trivial age and lack of history.

## History

Waltur Perisynt was born to an old and esteemed Armiger family with a history of breeding extremely high quality slaves, especially Pit Fighters and bulky serviles suitable for bodyguard work. The business was large enough by the time Waltur was born that it employed several dozends of slave trainers, and worked like a well-oiled machine.

Mostly through dumb luck Waltur met the young Prince Remiel, who had come to their establishment to purchase a few slaves. Against all odds, Remiel and the much younger boy hit it off immediately, finding a shared intest in luxury goods and parties. Waltur became a mainstay of Remiel’s friendship circle; along with a couple other wealthy youths - and encouraged his bad habits wholeheartedly. A few years into Remiel’s rule Waltur was made a noble simply for being one of Remiel’s sycophantic friends; after all, being of low birth, Waltur never even accidentally disagreed with his royal friend.

Now given nobility, Waltur thirsted for power and influence beyond the meager beginnings of his House. Being a freshly made noble, he had difficulty finding spouses, even with the King’s favor, but eventually managed to arrange two beneficial matches to other Lesser Houses. His first child was born in 1656. After Remiel left the throne in 1676, the “Golden Age” of House Perisynt ended, and they were pushed out of what little limelight they ever held.

Waltur wanted to enhance the status of his family, and as such, encouraged his children to use whatever means necessary to social climb. He was, and still is, a ruthless Head of House who will use fear and humiliation to get his way.

The arguable high point for the House was when a chance meeting at a party led to a love affair between Vittoria, Waltur’s second born, and Lucillius of House Aelius. The two were soon married, but unfortunately Vittoria wasn’t able to keep up the act her father had pressured her into, and the two were soon divorced, with their shared child remaining in House Aelius.

Later, after Vittoria’s death, Waltur would attempt to reconnect with Aleksei in hopes of gaining his favor, and would later even suggest merging the two Houses. This caused all connections between the two to be severed.

During the Crucible attack, Waltur was severely injured, while all his children sustained minor injuries. Although he made a full recovery, the time spent in bed and the shock of the event never truly wore off, and the Head of House has become increasingly paranoid and unreasonable since.

With Waltur weak and homebound, his children have finally gained the opportunity to be their own nobles - without their father breathing down their necks.

## House

House Perisynt is an extremely young House, and lacks the kind of identity and reputation that comes with years of being a part of the noble society. As such, they’re not very well known as a House, although Waltur Perisynt himself is somewhat notorious as a schemer and famous for breeding excellent slaves.

### Home

The Dancing Lights Estate is located on the very edge of Sol District, and is built on a single floor. The main structure is large, but contains a big inner courtyard, making the house itself something of a hollow square with a big yard in the middle. Almost half of the building is sectioned off for slaves and training spaces, while the rooms remaining in family use are *nice* but not exactly the level of luxury one might expect from a noble home. There are a few, individual and very noticeable markers of wealth in the household - expensive single paintings and sculptures that are displayed prominently, and do not match the rest of the furnishing in terms of expense.

### Wealth

The Perisynts were an Armiger family specializing in slave breeding and training before they became nobles. This is the business they kept up with for almost the entire duration of their nobility, but with the slave reclaims, they have been forced to end their business - when your business is breeding slaves, and the Crown claims all slave foals, there isn’t exactly a business there.

Their remaining wealth has been invested into trade, although they only own fairly minor shares in several businesses and trading ventures.

Currently the House is in a somewhat dire monetary situation.

### Looks & Traits

Due to being an extremely young House, they do not have an established “signature look”, although most members of the family take after their patriarch Waltur in being fairly dark coated unicorns with a more warmblood style build rather than the classical, light build that is typical to Aodhians.

Mostly due to Waltur’s scheming and attempts to get on the top of noble society, the House has a generally poor reputation - that is, when they are talked about at all. That isn’t to say that Waltur’s children are as rotten as their father; just that Waltur is essentially all other nobles know of this House.

### Values & Beliefs

Perisynt’s values have, so far, been Waltur’s values: hedonism, pro-slavery, constant social climbing and the willingness to do whatever it takes to get to the top of the noble totem pole. Waltur is one of those people who doesn’t truly believe in anything or anyone except glory and fame for his own family, and this means he has always been willing to slight others to get ahead. For the most part, the success has been short lived.

During Remiel’s reign the personal friendship made them close with the Crown, but since the House has not shown any particular interest in being very vocal supporters of any of Aodh’s Kings.

For being such a young House, Waltur has sure managed to give them a very elitist, almost snooty vibe. He was always very careful to never be confused for the simple Gentry horse he was born as, and was outspoken about more benefits and privileges for nobility.

Whatever the other Perisynts believe has been largely smothered by the loud opinions of their patriarch.

## Family Tree

Head of House, Waltur Perisynt, born 1612. Seal bay unicorn (Ee Ata nf).

Waltur’s first spouse, 1619-1685. Palomino appaloosa pegasus (ee aa nCr nLp). Mother to Waldemar, B and D.

Waltur’s second spouse, 1625-1693. Flaxen chestnut splash hippocampus (ee Aa ff nSpl). Father to Vittoria and C.

Heir, Waldemar Perisynt, born 1656. Burnt buckskin appaloosa unicorn (Ee Ata nCr nLp).

Vittoria Perisynt, 1659-1692. Seal bay splash unicorn (Ee Ata ff nSpl). Mother of Aleksei Aelius.

Child B, born 1661 (Waltur x first spouse)

Child C, born 1663 (Waltur x second spouse)

Child D, born 1667 (Waltur x first spouse)

Waldermar’s children, born 1678, 1680, 1682.  Waldemar’s spouse is a grey on bay common horse (Ee Aa nG).

Vittoria’s children from second marriage, born 1681, 1685. Vittoria’s second spouse was a sooty buckskin rabicano pegasus (Ee Aa nCr nSty nRb). Vittoria’s children are Perisynts.

B, C & D may also have children; up to their adopters. B, C and D were likely married into other Houses.

## Creating a Perisynt Noble

Perisynt is a semi-NPC House, meaning its owned and managed by Denver, the Aodh admin, but is available for other members to join, and has no active PC head/heir - both Waltur and Waldermar are NPCs. Perisynt characters are mostly intended as PCs, but may be available as NPC spouses to existing (Lesser) House nobles. NPCs created for Perisynt must have NPC sheets.

The main goal of the Perisynt family is to create a more interconnected Aodhian nobility. The House is also available as a owner for a slave character.

Please DM ThatDenver on Discord to discuss claiming one of these characters. Waltur also has several bastards (younger than his legitimate children) available for creation.