Carian Royal Family

The crest of the Carian Royal Family, as displayed when casting Carian sorceries.

Members of the Carian Royal Family were prolific magic users and erstwhile heads of the Academy of Raya Lucaria, who were famous for developing their own glintstone sorceries. They originated from the mist-laden region in the west of the Lands Between, known as Liurnia of the Lakes.

The Carian Royal Family would reach its peak under Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon. In her youth, she was a prominent champion who would go on to charm the academy with her lunar magic, becoming its master. She also led the Glintstone Knights and established the house of Caria as royalty.

## Overview

The Carian Royals have always been closely associated with the western coast of Liurnia, which is the location of their estate, the Caria Manor, as well as the Three Sisters region immediately behind it. Another location of importance was the Carian Study Hall, a large library in eastern Liurnia that connects to the region's Divine Tower.

The Carian royals were served by magic preceptors notable for large hats with the movements of the stars drawn on the inside of the brim, as well as on their bright blue gowns. All glintstone sorcerers are the descendants of astrologers, a fact that the Carians remained aware of. The astrologers preceded the sorcerers and had established themselves in mountaintops that nearly touched the sky, and considered the Fire Giants their neighbors. They would read fate in the stars, but alas, the night sky no longer cradles fate.

However, the Carian royal family were mostly known for the famous enchanted knights that served them. These enchanted knights, anointed by the Lunar Queen, were heroes of the highest honors, and served as direct retainers to the kingdom's princesses. Their swords were embedded with blue glintstone, and could serve as catalysts, letting them wield sorcerous battle skills. Despite numbering fewer than twenty, this power made them a match for even the champions of gold in battle. They combined this art with their swordsmanship to maintain pressure upon their foes, striking in waves of steel and sorcery. The Carian knights never wavered, and even had sorceries that could alleviate the buildup of sleep or madness. There were also enchanted troll knights among their number, comrades of young Rennala, bound by oath. They were called into service when the Queen invoked an oath they swore. These trolls were treated as true knights of Caria, and would fight arm in arm with their human comrades.

The famous Loretta was once a royal Carian knight, and served as a personal guard to Carian royalty. Despite fighting mounted and using a war sickle, her favored weapon was said to be the bow, and she developed sorceries imitating the power of a greatbow. She would leave her service in search of a haven for Albinaurics, but an apparition of her remains to defend Caria Manor to this day. Several Albinauric mages, such as Pidia, remained as servants to the Carian Royal family, seemingly facing less persecution there then in other parts of the Lands Between.

The oldest sorcery devised by the Carians would conjure an enemy-seeking glintblade, and it would serve as a prototype for more enhanced sword-phalanx sorceries wielded by royal enchanted knights. They also created sorceries that would conjure magic swords that could sweep, slice and pierce their enemies. Some sorceries were said to have been taught to them by the enigmatic Crystalians, to mark the swearing of an old concord*.*

Due to the influence of the Carians, the Lazuli Conspectus would eventually developed in the Academy. The scholars of this conspectus sought to master Carian sorcery, and viewed the moon as equal to the stars. This would be seen as a heterodox pursuit, or even outright heresy, by their colleagues at the academy.

## History

When Queen Marika the Eternal established her new Age of the Erdtree, she dispatched a champion known as Radagon to lead her armies against the lands of Liurnia. Not much was known about Radagon before he joined the ranks in the Liurnian Wars, but he was seen as a great champion with flowing red locks, and he would lead a great golden host to Liurnia, where he would meet Rennala in battle.

Radagon would fight two wars against Rennala and the Academy, both of which saw no clear victor. Instead, Radagon eventually repented his territorial aggressions by cleansing himself with Celestial Dew, swore his love to Rennala and became the husband of the Carian Queen.

He married her at the Church of Vows, and it would be this matrimonial union, and reconciliation between the houses of the Erdtree and the Full Moon that would eventually have grave consequences for the Carians, as it was during the age of the Erdtree, that Carian astrology withered on the vine, as the fate once writ in the night skies had been fettered by the Golden Order.

Rennala would bequeath Radagon with a greatsword, to honor a long standing tradition in which a Moon Greatsword is bestowed by a Carian queen upon her spouse. Upon entering into marriage with Rennala and joining the Carian line, Radagon would order Carian magic preceptors to don masks of confidence, to make it clear that all of their matters were to be kept strictly private. While husband to Rennala, he studied glintstone sorcery taught at the Academy. Together, Radagon and Rennala would go on to have three children: Radahn, Rykard, and Ranni.

After Godfrey, the first Elden Lord, was hounded from the Lands Between, Radagon left Rennala to become the second husband and King Consort of Queen Marika, and would receive the title of second Elden Lord. Queen Marika made Radagon's and Rennala's children her demigod stepchildren. When Radagon left, Rennala's heart left with him. Realizing their heartbroken queen was no champion at all, the Academy rebelled against the Carian royal family and Rennala would find herself under the assault of her own students, who would eventually lock her away in the grand library.

Liurnia would descend into civil war, with the Carians and their retainers on one side, and the Academy and its Knights of the Cuckoo on the other. The soldiers of Raya Lucaria were known as the Cuckoos, as their symbol was a peering cuckoo bird, the bird's shrewd gaze an expression of their refusal to be mere servants of the academy. They were given free rein by the scholars of the academy to wage war as they pleased, and they were infamous for their rapacious ways*.* The Knights of the Cuckoo would use "faux sorceries" and would be taught lesser spells by the academy as payment for their contract. Meanwhile, the Carian royal family had secretly been preparing against the disloyalty of the academy by devising sorceries that could dispel incoming spells and retaliate with glintblades. The moon and stars would go their separate ways.

The war would eventually lead to the siege of Caria Manor. The Carians were taken of guard, but their strength had not yet fully waned, and they managed to repel the onslaught by conjuring a powerful enchanted snare that remains potent to this day.

## Current Events

As the Lands Between fell into disarray, the last Carian Princess, Ranni, made her way back to her family's ancestral home, where she would gather her allies and vassals in order to set her own plans into motion. Her vassals included her faithful shadow, the Half-Wolf Blaidd, her families old troll blacksmith Iji, who was now her war counsellor, as well as Seluvis, a preceptor in the sorcerous arts. She also won the loyalty of Glintstone Dragon Adula who swore a knightly oath to her and now guards the path to her tower. The Tarnished can join the group and eventually become her consort as she ushers in her Age of the Stars.

## Relevant Items

Items associated with:

* Caria
* The Royal Family
* The Caria-Erdtree Union
* Ranni and her entourage
* Seluvis and the Carian Preceptors
* Royal Knight Loretta

## References

1. ↑ Royal House Scroll
2. ↑ Remembrance if the Full Moon Queen
3. ↑ Map Liurnia, West
4. ↑ Carian Inverted Statue
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Preceptor's Big Hat
6. ↑ Preceptor's Long Gown
7. ↑ Sword of Night and Flame
8. ↑ Astrologers Robe
9. ↑ Carian Knight Helm
10. ↑ Carian Filigreed Crest
11. ↑ Carian Knight's Sword
12. ↑ Glintblade Phalanx
13. ↑ Lucidity
14. ↑ Greatblade Phalanx
15. ↑ Troll Knight's Sword
16. ↑ Royal Knight Armor
17. ↑ Loretta's War Sickle
18. ↑ Loretta's Greatbow
19. ↑ Royal Knight Helm
20. ↑ Pidia: *"I am Pidia. Servant to the Carian royal family. I am charged with maintaining these g-ghastly dolls."*
21. ↑ Magic Glintblade
22. ↑ Magic Downpour
23. ↑ Sellen: "*If you recall, I was exiled from the Academy of Raya Lucaria. It was for attempting to restore the primeval current of glintstone sorcery. The toothless pedantry peddled by the Carian royal family can rot for all I care."*
24. ↑ Lazuli Glintstone Crown
25. ↑ Lazuli Robe
26. ↑ Barrier of Gold
27. ↑ Miriel: "*Lord Radagon was a great champion, possessed of flowing red locks. He came to these lands at the head of a great golden host, when he met Lady Rennala in battle*."
28. ↑ Sword Monument: "*The First Liurnian War* *Radagon's glory burns red as his hair*"
29. ↑ Sword Monument: "*The Second Liurnian War* *No victory for the golden, nor for the moon* *No prize but atonement; the birth of a vow*"
30. ↑ Miriel, Pastor of Vows: *"Radagon once cleansed himself with celestial dew, repented his territorial aggressions, and swore his love to Rennala."*
31. ↑ Miriel, Pastor of Vows: *"He soon repented his territorial aggressions though, and became husband to the Carian Queen."*
32. ↑ Miriel, Pastor of Vows: "*It is here, at the Church of Vows, that the great houses of the Erdtree and the Moon were joined. And so, our church holds in view the monuments of both houses. The Erdtree of the Capital, and the Academy of Raya Lucaria."*
33. ↑ Full Moon Crossbow
34. ↑ Telescope
35. ↑ Golden Order Greatsword
36. ↑ Dark Moon Greatsword
37. ↑ Gold Sewing Needle
38. ↑ Mask of Confidence
39. ↑ Radagon Icon
40. ↑ Miriel: "*However, when Godfrey, first Elden Lord, was hounded from the Lands Between, Radagon left Rennala to return to the Erdtree Capital, becoming Queen Marika's second husband and King Consort, taking the title...of second Elden Lord."*
41. ↑ Radahn's Great Rune
42. ↑ Queen's Crescent Crown
43. ↑ Queen's Robe
44. ↑ Carian Knight's Shield
45. ↑ Cuckoo Greatshield
46. ↑ Cuckoo Knight Armor
47. ↑ Raya Lucaria Soldiers
48. ↑ Cuckoo Glintstone
49. ↑ Scholar's Armament
50. ↑ Scholar's Shield
51. ↑ Carian Retaliation
52. ↑ Sword Monument (Liurnia): "*The resting place of the contemptible Cuckoos Lost in the siege of Caria Manor*"
53. ↑ War Counselor Iji: "*When the Raya Lucaria Academy turned on the Carians, the Knights of the Cuckoo descended on this tract. After leveling it, they carried on to the manor. The Carians were taken off guard, but their strength had not waned, and they repelled the knights' onslaught...By conjuring an enchanted snare that remains potent to this day."*
54. ↑ Discarded Palace Key
55. ↑ Rogier: *"There's a manor to the north of the Academy of Raya Lucaria. It is the familial home of the Carian royals from whom Ranni descends. There's been talk of the old royals' vassals gathering there in recent years. Ranni's whereabouts since the Shattering are a well-kept secret. She hasn't been seen even once. But I suspect she might have returned to the manor in which she was born..."*
56. ↑ Royal Greatsword
57. ↑ War Counselor Iji: "*Lady Ranni has explained everything. Again, I am Iji. The Carian royal family's dedicated blacksmith, and Lady Ranni's war counsellor."*
58. ↑ Seluvis: "*I am Seluvis, preceptor in the sorcerous arts. I don't know what it is the mistress sees in a provincial Tarnished like you, but since we have the misfortune of serving the same Lady, I ask that you kindly try not to drag us all down with you."*
59. ↑ Adula's Moonblade