House Hallewell

**Heads of House**
 **Heir**
 **Seat**
 **Lands**
 **Overlords**
 **Vassals**
 **Founder**

**House Hallewell** is a Kul Tiran noble house that rules over the Barony of Autumnhearth located in northern Drustvar. A newly-founded house, it already spans two kingdoms, influencing both Stormwind and Kul Tiras' political landscape.

With strong ties to the Holy Light, House Hallewell holds a firm commitment to honor and the Light's virtues. They staunchly oppose evil wherever they find it.

## History

### Pre-founding

*The Hallewell line has been known in Kul Tiras for some time. While hardly nobility, it had produced a handful of successful military officials, guardsmen, and even a few knights of the realm. The Hallewells had a reputation for consistent, earnest service to Kul Tiras. This recently-founded house came to be in unusual circumstances, but has been welcomed by the Waycrest ruler of Drustvar in the aftermath of the province’s recent destabilization.*

*In its most recent generations, Joseph Hallewell, son of Edward and Marceline, was exiled from the nation of Kul Tiras. The reasoning for the exile itself is unknown, but he was ordered to resign his captainship in the Admiralty and go to the mainland, never to return to his homeland. Most other Hallewells of similar age, including Abernathy, Pierce, Irene, and Selina, passed away in the Second War when red dragons sank the fleet off the coast of Crestfall.*

*Out of the darkness of Lordaeron came a new scion of the family: Merellia, daughter of the exiled Joseph, who fell victim to the undead Scourge along with the entire family of his wife Catherine. She made a name for herself while returning to her father’s homeland of Drustvar, fighting the onslaught of the Heartsbane Coven as an Inquisitor of the Order of Embers. She later served in the Conquest of Zandalar on behalf of House Waycrest and then spoke for the house at the Boralus Council and the Assemblage of Houses*

### Founding & Recent History

*In the aftermath of the Fourth War, Merellia Hallewell was tasked by Lady Lucille Waycrest with the restoration of the land of Autumnhearth, long bereft of true leadership. Its previous ruling steward had been dragged off by the Heartsbane Coven and ritually sacrificed before a crowd of townsfolk, who had labored under their dominion until the fall of the Heartsbane Mother in the west.*

*Merellia was given the opportunity for rule- if she could restore the land then she would prove herself worthy of the title, and so the bargain was struck. The Inquisitor found many worthy allies in for her work, including the woman who would later become her wife and equal in title: Dame Alexandria Williams.*

*Dame Alexandria Williams came from a notable history herself, daughter of one of a paladin knighted during the second war: the legendary Dame Myrina, a heroic and commanding presence in the halls of Stormwind. A mighty paladin herself, she married a lesser noble scion from Stormwind: Sir James Cooper. Though he was lost during the war for Northrend, this union did produce a son, James II. The younger James is a strapping young lad who has become a welcome sight in Drustvar’s woods and taverns. Though he follows a ranger’s path, there is time yet for him to rise to the new nobility of his family and bloodline. Whether he will inherit titles from either his mother’s house or his  is yet to be decided.*

*The union of Dame Alexandria and Merellia during May of Year 633 became the founding of House Hallewell, set to rule over Drustvar. As they have cleansed Autumnhearth, trade and interest in the region has renewed vastly and Drustvar’s standing in Kul Tiras made greater. Both are sights in the great courts of the Alliance at large, with Alexandria having forged close ties with the House of Ascania-Eastburg in the Kingdom of Stormwind. The newly-minted baronesses, enobled at the beginning of December 633, already expect a child in the near future as they work to secure their house’s legacy.*

*The heraldry for their new house is mixed between Autumnhearth’s tree with a trio of stars and the Truthkeeper, the great shield borne by Dame Alexandria.*

## Notable Members

### Merellia Hallewell

Merellia Hallewell is one of the current heads of House Hallewell, a noblewoman of Kul Tiras and current head of Light's Watch Abbey.

### Alexandria Williams

Dame Alexandria is the other head of House Hallewell, a proud paladin of the Silver Hand and current Grandmaster of the Order of Eastburg, a knightly order based on

## Lands

### Autumnhearth

Perched between the Shrouded Foothills and the Autumnvale, the Drustvari realm of Autumnhearth is full of sorrow and emptiness.

A hundred fifty years ago, the people there prospered and lived in peace. They proudly supported House Waycrest and guarded against the encroachment of elemental and trogg nuisances from the mountains and depths. Autumnhearth was a jewel of Drustvar until a series of misfortunes befell the ruling family and their realm, culminating in their mysterious deaths and the vanishing of an entire township.

The passage of time has obscured the details of these cataclysms, but the memory of the terror wrought upon Autumnhearth has never left the hearts of its inhabitants. What few brave souls still dwell within the region are as hardy as Drustvari come, scratching out a living on lands they are too stubborn to abandon to the monsters that still haunt the woods and vales.

Great potential lies in the once-prosperous mines and fields here despite the dark shroud that lies over them. Many caretakers have been appointed to oversee the territory by the Waycrests over the years in the hopes that Autumnhearth could be returned to its former glory. While some made valiant efforts, others refused to even dwell there for fear of the curses that surely lie upon it.

As reward for her service to the Order of Embers and Kul Tiras, Inquisitor Merellia Hallewell was granted stewardship over Autumnhearth. This reward, however, came with a mission: to cleanse the long-cursed land, and establish safety and security for the denizens long bereft of it.

### Light's Watch Abbey

Once the spiritual capital of Eastburg, the Abbey of Light's Watch is a dessicated and haunted place situated in the northern foothills of the Eastvale. After its destruction and looting a decade ago by Forsaken Deathstalkers, the ruins sat idle and unused until 633 K.C. With its former clergy all dead, the clerist Merellia Hallewell works to see the abbey rebuilt and its once-proud halls filled with the devoted once more.

## Gallery

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