House Valtieri

**House lead**
 **Holdings**

Lady Aredhele Valtieri holds the current rule of House Valtieri and holds the Duchy of Black Rose in Duskwood. House Valtieri history dates back 73 Centuries and holds the Duchy of Black Rose in Duskwood, as well as fallen lands in the Highlands.

## History

**House Valtieri Family History | The Beginning**

**Chapter 1 -** **Titles and Holdings**

* Powerful Highbourne or High Elf arcane users. (Valtieri bloodline hails from)
* Sided with Dath’remar Sunstrider against the Night Elves and new Druid magic
* Exiled to the Eastern Kingdoms from Kalimdor for using arcane magic
* Helped fight trolls as they settled in Tirisfal Glades.
* Became slightly afflicted with madness due to the entity under Tirisfal Glades. The temporary ailment helped craft House Valtieri's gruesome battle tactics
* Moved north with other High Elves into lands of Quel’thalas
* Helped found the kingdom of Quel’thalas
* Respected by the Convocation due to loyalty to Quel’thalas and skill in magic and blades
* Formed an Alliance with the Kingdom of Arathor after the humans lent their hand to help defeat the Amani Trolls
* Fought in the Troll Wars, known for wielding swords as well as magic. Became known for their terrorizing and brutal tactics on the battlefield
* Helped teach humans the art of arcane magic and in return, House Valtieri was awarded land and noble title in the Highlands
* Assisted in the founding of Dalaran
* Fought along side Humans and Dwarves in the second war
* When the high elven king Anasterian Sunstrider lost concern of his allies and officially seceded his nation, tension grew between the Lords of Arathor and House Valtieri seeing they took home in the Highlands
* Lord Valtieri petitioned the King for title and land to be awarded to him due to his loyalty to the Alliance and was thus awarded the Duchy of Black Rose in Duskwood.

**Chapter 2 - The Damning Secrets Of A Prominent House :** by Cassiele Valtieri **(** Historical documentation of Aredhele's grandparents, parents, brothers and sister**s.** Aredhele and her brother Rhys were raised by their grandparents and her grandparents remained loyal to the Alliance however, some of the members of the family you read in this history did not. )

Daughter of a powerful Trifecta of ancient noble families, her ancestry, history and present day are a blur of salacious and ambitious behavior. It began well before her parents and trickled through the bloodlines of their respective families, but in an effort to bring things current we will begin with the heads of each House. Lord Kethrosar Valtieri, Lord Velethuil Runeweaver, and Lord Eltaor Thalryn.

Some centuries ago a young Valtieri boy fell in love with a beautiful Runeweaver priestess. They were inseparable, spending every bit of their free time together and while their respective family's admired and smiled at their love there was a sense of sadness to it all as well, for the young Sairalis had long been promised to the son of an opposing House, the young Lord Velin Thalryn. What made things even further unfortunate was that Velin and Theoden, the Valtieri's son, were the very best of friends. Brothers bound by their heart, not by their blood.

Sairalis soon found herself with child and her family kept her hidden from sight until her son (Rhys Valtieri) was born to which they took up as their own to raise. While her father frowned upon such reckless behavior he could not feel but saddened as the arrangement with the Thalryn family was his own doing. The darling priestess and her young lover doted upon their son in private and did well to hide their continuing romance in public but again, she found herself blooming with another child, this time another daughter (Aredhele).

Kethrosar and El'relisi spoke of and raised both Rhys and Aredhele as their own, but by no means were Sairalis and Theoden absent of their children's upbringing. However the time had come to which Velin and Sairalis were to be wed, and thus within the agreement Velin was to be provided an heir. Poor Theoden understood the consequences but he would never give up on his love and absolute obsession of his soulmate for life and the three of them somehow managed to make things work between them, often times Velin and Theoden would share in their lust for their priestess at the same time and it was promised that any children born to her while a Thalryn would be deemed a Thalryn regardless of who fathered the child.

Along came a daughter, Cassiele, and a set of twins known as Firil and My'rell. But then the Scourge encroachment upon Silvermoon had come, the Alliance officially withdrawing their aid, leaving many dead; including Velin. In her heartache, she slept in their bed alone, seduced by his spirit or so she thought. In actuality it was Velin's twin brother, Cathardris, that had come to her in the night masquerading as his brother and took the mourning priestess as his own during her week of mourning to which she inevitably became pregnant with a son to which she named Valthin, a mix of Velin and Cathardris.

Furious that Cathardris would take advantage of her in her time of need, she further betrayed the man she loved and ran into the arms of a rival noble, Lord Sennicuss Dawnraiser to which he appointed Sairalis a guard who later in turn repeatedly sexually assaulted her to which she again became pregnant. When she began to show, Sennicuss had her removed from his care by force for her supposed infidelities and she was left to her own devices as far as birthing a son named Veldranyn, fathered by Velastrian Dawnstrider.

Theoden was disgusted and in his rage he murdered Cathardris in the courtyard of his own home, blaming him for pushing Sairalis to make such poor and reckless decisions. Cathardris' death was blamed on the remnants of Scourge soldiers, he was never accused of the crime. As Sairalis healed and got over Velin's death she and Theoden took the opportunity to reunite as a family, bringing their brood of young children together with the exception of Valthin and Veldranyn. Velin's sister, Verysa, took in Valthin and raised him as her own whereas Veldranyn was given to the Deity of the Moon Temple to be raised by one of the clergy.

Another daughter came of their lust-filled efforts upon their reunion, Merialeth but by then Sairalis had suffered great emotional and mental hardships both by manipulation, destructive influences, as well as challenging the spectrum of magic and diving head first into the darker aspects. Shadow magic was standard but cautioned against, but Necromancy was just out right reckless and taboo. In fact one could be imprisoned for completing such an act, but she had become obsessed, moreso when Velin returned to her as an Ebon Knight. Between her mental vulnerabilities and her brash reactions to Velin's return, Sairalis left Everong for the city of Silvermoon and never looked back.

There she met and engaged in an affair with Lord Alexander Blackfyre before the two of them retired to an estate on the Isles of the coast of Quel'thalas. Sairalis wasn't heard of for years until Theoden had had enough and tracked her down, rescuing her from the Isles in hopes of setting her mind straight. He loved her with every fiber of his soul and would never give up on them. Immediately he encouraged her to annul her marriage to the Thalryn family and marry him instead, become a Valtieri, and she did.

Their consummation provided an eight child, little Arialeth, their only true child. Their daughter had solidified their desire to be a family and to forget about the politics of Silvermoon and just live in bliss in the south by the river side. While Sairalis agreed and fulfilled her loves dreams for many years, the Void called to her. She vanished some years later in search of Umbric and his researchers, and when she found him she sent word back to Theoden.

By then their children had grown into their own with little need to be nurtured or parented and so Theoden took his men and followed his wife to Telogrus where they would all learn to master the Void and control the whispers; or so they thought. Young Merialeth who was closest to Sairalis, followed their trail into the Rift and found them on Telogrus. There was no way Cassiele would permit Merialeth to just disappear like that and followed, later catching up with all of them as well. This left behind others that once learning their parents had departed Quel'thalas, and Cassiele had gone after them, the remaining children would then follow only later to learn that they had been expelled from Quel'thalas in an effort to protect the Sunwell.

Umbric and Alleria joined forces and brought their people to Stormwind at the agreement of the King to permit them to join the Alliance as ally. This did not sit well with Theoden and Sairalis and so just before they were to portal through the Rift to Stormwind's Embassy, Sairalis and their small army rallied before the remaining Sin'dorei turned Ren'dorei and began to wage a full scale assault. Cassiele saw the destruction that was about to occur but was seemingly immune to her mother's magic. With little time to wonder how that could be, the rogue slipped up behind her mother and assassinated her right then and their before the masses, and her husband.

The mass hysteria and confusion was soon quelled but nobody could find Theoden or his remaining men, so Cassiele took Merialeth and began a new life for them in Stormwind.

## Vassals

Tirian Felo'dorah - Baron of Ghostlynn Grove