House Flowers

# House Flowers of the Hanging Gardens

The oldest house of Norton, it has forged its hold on large and extensive fertile lands during the thousands of years since the Men of the West first landed in Norton to flee the religious persecution of the Polis Empire.

Its last king, William XI Flowers, tried to subjugate Percy I and failed with a desperate sea attack to win the war he thinks is easy to win. With his fleet, Percy destroyed and captured William, who at the end of the war, knelt to Percy. The Flowers' symbol is a green and red rose on a yellow background.

## Culture

### Traits

The like the first Blacksmokes, the Flowers bred with natives of the continent, as did many other monarchs and nobles of the time, and inherited many characteristics, in the Blacksmokes, the most prominent being platinum or silver hair, and blue eyes of varying shades.

### Customs

The Westmen culture is accepting to different cultures and religions, however, they are relentless and cruel against those who go against their core values, those being: strenght, honor, family, and respect for religions and cultures. The Westmen don't believe in races, differently from the Moonmen who has a very strict racial cast system, that was abolished by King Percy I.

The Westmen practices mummification to honor and preserve the bodies of the dead. A example is Percy I tomb, that is located in the Blacksmoke Mausoleum, under the Magnon. The king's tomb is located in the center of the mausoleum, in a casket of gold, silver and rubies, with engravings telling the story of the conquest on the sides. Two statues of the god of the dead watches over the tomb.

## History

The kingdoms that formed the Kingdom of Florenia were founded when the first Westmen landed on the coast of the area, joining and socializing with the local tribes. Founding dozens of kingdoms that spread from north to south.

The tribes that existed before and stretched across the continent were disappearing, as they united with the local kings, or went to live in cities where access to food, water, and money were much easier. They procreated with the kings, and the ethnicity of the natives was transferred to the kings and princesses who slept with them. Red or brown hair emerged and became common among nobles. Westmen began to value nature and the changing of the seasons more. As a result, festivals were created for each season, such as: the spring festival called The Feast of the First Sunbeam, the summer festival called The Georgian Festival (named after the goddess of agriculture, Georgía), the autumn festival called The Festival of the Setting Sun (for winter is coming so darker times come with them, for nothing grows in winter), and finally the Festival of the Stars which celebrates winter. All of them are a whole week of feasting, celebration and revelry that the lords serve to both poor and noble.

House Flowers was the most powerful house of all the kingdoms in the area. Florian Flowers married Yasmin Redrose, the lords of the Bay of Roses, the largest and most powerful city of Norton until the founding of Crown's Port during the reign of Percy I. They conquered and formed the Kingdom of Florenia with all the houses. united under the red, yellow and green banner of House Flowers. The realm was founded with the purpose of becoming the greatest realm Norton had ever seen, and with the other goal of protecting itself from the Moon Kings of House Halfmoon, their slavery and foreign religion. Speaking of religion, the main religion practiced is the worship of the Twelve Gods.

They settled in this region because it is a fertile region, where everything that is planted grows, from wheat to foreign trees. The Florenia River begins in three rivers in the Kingdom of Florenia and crosses the continent until it flows into the Gulf of the Moon and next to Crown's Port, being the largest source of water in the entire kingdom.

House Flowers maintains a strong relationship with the Norton monarchy, often intermarrying with the Blacksmoke kings. In all their years as vassals of House Blacksmoke, House Flowers wed their fairest daughters to two kings of Norton and many other Blacksmoke princes. Norton's Queen Consort is currently Elisandra Flowers.

**Current members:**

*- **GARATH FLOWERS**, Grand Duke of Florenia, First Councillor of the King;*

*- his wife, LADY ANNE, of House Fallenstar;*

*their children are:*

*- GEORGE, heir of Florenia, age 16;*

*- KARIOL, a boy, age 16;*

*- **ELISANDRA FLOWERS**, Queen of Norton; wife to King Percy IV Blacksmoke; Garath's sister;*

*- **BAEMOR FLOWERS**, Garath's uncle, age 47;*

*- his wife, Kateryna, of House Leona;*

*their children:*

*- HENRY, a boy, age 20;*

*- EDWARD, a boy, age 19;*

*- TYRINA, a girl, age 18;*

*- **AEDRYAN FLOWERS**, Garath's uncle, age 40;*

*- his wife, Ellyn Southrose;*

*their children:*

*- EMILIA, a girl, age 16;*

*- **ELIZABETH FLOWERS**, tia de Garath, trinta e nove anos;*

*- her husband, Maccar of House Southrose;*

*their children:*

*- RYZEN, a boy, age 15;*

*- JOR, a boy age, 14;*

*- ALYSSA, a girl, age 13;*

*- PERCY, a boy, age 11;*

*- WILLIAM, a boy, age 10;*