House Udirgh

**House Udirgh** was a royal house of the Rakanin people of northwestern Keyvaile, ruling the kingdom of Mardu and surviving the fall of their kingdom as nobles in the new Kingdom of Rogrez.

## House Udirgh

### Lands

Kingdom of MarduGrand City of Tar-Mardu

Lands of Unathan

### Titles:

King of MarduHigh Chieftain of Mardu

Count of Unathan

## Rulers:

### Uthyn "the Bane of Elf and Dwarf”

(1 E.O.S-40 E.O.S)

Warrior from the fall of the elven empire, who founded his realm after conquering the dwarven city of Tar-Mardu. Built a kingdom for himself, before he died of cancer.

### Uragan "the Sickly”

(40-49 E.O.S)

Daughter of Uthyn and queen of Mardu. She defeated her first dwarven rebellion at 17, the first of many wars she fought in. She spent much of her reign fighting off dwarf and goblin attacks, before dying of illness suspected to be cancer that killed her father nine years into her reign.

### Faocain "the Jolly”

(Ruled 49-101)

Great merchant king of Mardu, who expanded his kingdom and built the great city of Uthynport. Died at the ripe old age of 75.

### Nale "the Short-Lived”

(Ruled 101-103 EoS)

Queen of Mardu and a skilled thief. Made trade with the Herwig Family.

### Melle "the Strange"

(Ruled 103-152 E.O.S.)

Granddaughter of Faocain through his firstborn Faion, who died before he could rule. She took over after her aunt Nale died of illness. She was a great warrior and mage, who defended her land before it´s foes and conquered the petty kingdom of Canabrin. She made a deal with the spirit Daraf to help civilize her kingdom. She conquered the Ravinhil from the Dorki, defeating the warriors on many occasions and sacking their great holding of Falkius. She also defeated Zefays, later known as the Worm King, back when he was still a human warlord. She defeated an orc warband but recruited their youths, leading orcish stock to stregthen her realm  She advanced her nation´s power and culture greatly, building up the city of Murdu and expanding Uthanport, slaying trolls and building roads. Unfortunately, this all caused her great stress and she died at the old age of 79 .

At the start of her reign, Mardu was a one of many petty primitive kingdoms of the Rakanin, but by the end, it dominated over the others and was a power of the region.

### Targsuk "the Just”

(152- 173)

Daughter of Nale, daughter of Faocain, who inherited the throne from her cousin.  A skilled battlemage and a sufferer of lycanthropy, after an attack early in her life, that also infected the priest Grisnel, though he took his life. She raised a great stone to honor her mother queen Nale, which stands outside of the city of Tar-Mardu to this day. She warred against the Rogrez to claim Brittlestin, sacking the city of Naso and dealing the greatest battlefield defeat to that petty kingdom it suffered before the unifications. Afterwards, she became a sort of warrior scholar training for battle and writing poetry. She is most famed for hosting the first tournament at Uthynport, a tradition that lives on to this day. She gave the dwarven steward Kamdida Malifsdaughter her own little piece of land. She gained the respect of many of her neighbors, even her people´s great enemies, the Dorki before dying of stress at the old age of 71.

### Foalka "the Cleansing Flame”

(173- 193 E.O.S.)

Queen of Mardu and daughter of Dulan. She served as chancellor before being chosen to succeed her distant cousin in Rakanin tradition. Her reign began in a time of great peace and prosperity with much wealth being brought into the kingdom from both trade and the last of Targsuk’s raids. A skilled dagger in the night, few dared to challenge her. She established oversea trade with the Lear and strengthened the great trade league enbogoing Halafar from league trade, crippling the Silorian merchant’s guild. She impaled the orcish husband of her predecessor at stake and enforced a great power for her faith, hunting down many of the demon and Forge Father cults that dotted the countryside. Despite her piety, she was an avid gambler, enjoying games of bone dice and even having a room dedicated to such games built in her great hall. During her reign, House Baruh died out, and the warrior Culthera would attempt to claim the kingdom of Halafar as her own. Though she failed, Foalka would give her many honors. Foalka died from wounds she received in an honor duel at the age of 72

### Fabric “the Bulwark”

(193- 209 E.O.S.)

A skilled schoor and mage, he ended the tradition of choosing older women to the throne, and was quite the opposite of his predecessor, making  a deal with the Spirit Zernoch and formed a local guild of mages, which would eventually be one of the guilds that joined together to form the Mages Collective. He placed many new houses into power to slow down the decline of his race, and many of his children were landed. During this time, the family raven finally died and was buried by the family in ceremonial fashion. Unyielding in battle, he defeated many rebellions against his reign. He dabbled in necromancy to extend his life, and put many benevolent enchantments on his chosen heir and his favored son Volamar. He was the king during the second wave of the Green Death during the year 209 E.O.S, falling to the disease, and dying from it at the age 71. Before he died, he prepared the ritual to become a lich, but died before finishing, leaving his son Volamar to finish it.

### Braile “the Old”

( 209-209 E.O.S.)

Successor of Faocen as an old woman of 85. She had been a skilled warrior for all her long life, killing the dire bear Ursunr in single combat in her youth and bearing a nasty scar from it. Her reign is marked by the deadly Green Death that killed many of her kin. She herself succumbed to the sickness six months after assuming the throne, one of many of her House to die from the dread plague.

### Foatra “the Scholar”

(209-??? E.O.S.)

Queen of Mardu, and daughter of the bard Brairic. Took power during the Green Death. She spent her early reign secluded away from the sickness reading many books, and learning things magical and scientious. She also developed a relationship with the local priest, which became subject of a great controversy when it was revealed. She attempted to keep the peace as her land fell more and more to the sickness and did all she could to keep her people safe.  She lost her daughter Uraka to the sickness and gave birth to her son Culthrain. She survived the plague and stared the rebuilding the kingdom and would build the Temple of Mourning to commemorate the dead. She spent much time trying to repair her realm, dealing with goblins, unruly peasants and undead. In the year 214 E.O.S., the vampire nation of the Bleaklands, led by Scarlet King Boriang Volgarsh, attempted to claim the kingdom to take more blood thralls and to surround the rival kingdoms of Rogrez, rasing many dead people into their undead army. With such devastation their folk suffered, cultist and a peasant rebel named Esquier Blasitc took chunks out of her land. She warred against the vampires in a berserk rage, killing many undead, and eventually won the war, having many who turned against her brutally executed. She wrote a ballad about the war, and took up a fox as pet. Growing in power, she was seen as a threat by the Rogrez kingdom and Queen Rostlogi “the Blind”, and would make a great raid against the Song Elf kingdom of Elasaria, raiding many cities to finance the repairs to her country. Though she recovered her land from the plague, it was the beginning of the end for her kingdom.

### Other Members of Note

#### Kaia

Chosen from youth to be the Sybia of Sholhavan an important place for the Rakarain faith. Welder of the Dwarven blade Dwber among other relics in the tenets of her faith

#### Brairic "the Drunkard"

A famed bard and writer during  the reign of Feolka wrote the book “Dwber” About the old dwarven kingdom, and Barac’s Guide to  Rakanin diplomacy. And served as the ambassador to Dubanech than still a petty kingdom . He died in the year 202 of the Era of Sorrows of a tradable itching disease at the age of 71

#### Cuhlera:

Lady warlord of Cuhlerra’s Host who attempted to claim the kingdom of Silorion from the Dorki. Though she in the end failed her victories against the dorki and slaying of their queen lead to her gaining much fame and fortune back home gaining the titles of marshal and master if the blade. Sadly her skill could not save her from the Green plague of 209.

#### Volamar "the Sickly Dead"

Son of Faoric and chieftain of Songard. Trained with his father in necromancer, eventually attaining lichdom after nearly dying of the Green Death, completing the ritual started by his father, who died before finishing. He would then go into hiding with his kin, believing he had succumbed to the disease.

## Artifacts:

The Ring of Lordship: A ring formally belonging to the Hold King of Tar-Murdu that enhances the rulership skills of it’s wielder.

Tolarisar: Also known as the **Sword of Wisdom**, an elven blade.

## Diplomacy:

Rivals:

House Snowwhale: Blood-feud for killing many of their members.