House Merasi

Coat of Arms of House Merasi

### Origins

The mid 700’s BS was a turbulent time, full of war and conflict; The realm on Koth recently released from the shackles of the Dominion, looked for every chance they could get to assert their dominance in this new world order. Among these realms were Spur, a sprawling metropolis and the old headquarters of the Dominion, the last Elarion stronghold left on the planet. With their leftover technology the city managed to grow from what was essentially a city state into a massive hegemony, with many independent member states, and would serve as the unofficial capital for the elves for many years. The city was run by a group of great houses that could trace their lineage back to old Elarion itself.

Among these houses were the house of Meralia and house Sirandel, both houses that had prospered greatly since The Fall. Despite the strife and chaos of their age, the patriarch and matriarch of each respective house, fell madly in love with each other, and would go on to marry each other; Despite going against the customs at the time, they both agreed to forsake their direct lines and instead let siblings or cousins inherit Sirandel and Meralia respectively, in order for their own children to make a new house. On the 9th day of the last moon in 713 BS their wish was fulfilled, and a girl was born, named Turan after the goddess of love, and thus the house of Merasi was born.

### Early History

Turan was a strong willed and skilled tactician. As customary in Spurian culture she would go on to serve in the military of the hegemony, starting on the officer school at the age of 23. Where she throughout her years would make a distinguished career, earning her and her house much respect, throughout Spur. She would go on to fight in the frontier wars, across the eastern border of the hegemony’s client states. At the age of 58 she would have to retire from military life as she got heavily wounded during a skirmish with Dawi forces.

Retirement in spur consisted mostly of gaining knowledge and helping the city’s head custodian maintain artifacts and ever worsening technology. As the years passed the head custodian would die and Turan would take over his duties, making steps to improve the process of maintaining equipment. And steps to ensure the title would go on to become hereditary, as she set up her firstborn son to take over from her.

Turan would die at the age of 146 in 567 BS, by a violent plague that ravaged the very urbanized elven populations of Koth. Her son Cneve nir Merasi, would take up her custodial duties, he was known to be a very shrewd man, with many ideas, sadly his time as custodian would not be long, due to the war breaking out.

### The Dawn War

The great clash or the Dawn War as many elves would go on to call it, would be devastating for the hegemony and by extending the house. The devastating plague only 30 years prior, had left the elven populations much smaller and weaker. And in their paranoia the hegemony tried culling the human populations of Koth, fearing they might take over as the dominant species. This would end horribly for the elves and ignite a 40 year long conflict, Expelling them to the fringes of the continent, as humans took over most major settlements, starting the elven dark age. During the siege of Spur, Cneve nir Merasi would manage to save many relics as well as evacuating himself, his retinue and family.

### Dark age

The house would flee beyond the northern mountain range bordering the city of Spur, settling in the fertile valleys along with many other spurian great houses in the region that would go on to be named Lower Spuria. There the house would build a castle near the coast, which would serve as its seat for more than 450 years, society itself slowly developing back to a feudal state of existence, but in relative peace and isolation. the storm hit the region in the year 0, it would hit Lower Spuria particularly hard, rendering the Merasi demesne infertile and nearly impossible to grow food in the stale soil.

### Modern Era

The storm hit the region in the year 0, it would hit Lower Spuria particularly hard, rendering the Merasi demesne infertile and nearly impossible to grow food in the stale soil. But as the storm passed a long lost continent was seen, Invernia. And in the year 5 AS the patriarch of the house Aranth nir Merasim, made the choice to pack up for the new lands and settle there instead. Aranth would die in a duel in the new lands, leaving the house to his firstborn daughter and current matriarch of the house. Eventually the house would gain sizable lands along the coast, most notably their current seat of Aquaria.