The 10 Families

Among Acers & Ascenders alike, it is known that the strongest are often members of the 10 families. Their latent magics are considered the greatest among all of the factions throughout the tower. Each head of the family has certain responsibilities to the Triarchy, including providing the Red King with soldiers from their family or vassal families. Because of this, the Red King demanded the second eldest member of each family to serve under him, working as his closest advisors. In this, he had hoped to force subservience upon the family heads. The king has made exceptions to this rule, most notably in the case of Opal Terra, despite her age she has proven her genius as a Mentat to be able to circumvent this rule. Those of the Church of the Pointed Star don't go out of their way to recruit from the 10 families. Their stance is based on a pragmatic viewpoint: whoever is able to climb through the ranks should have power. Perhaps, those of the 10 families don't practice, believing themselves to be powerful enough to conquer any threat.

### **The Eon Family**

Those in the Eon family are known for their innate abilities to exercise chronurgy & graviturgy. Some of the most gifted users of the family had to be imprisoned due to the time paradoxes they would cause while using their powers in combat. Use of chronurgy to a great extent is more of an art than a science in most cases. Those of this family are considered to be the greatest threat to the hierarchy of the tower should a member go rogue. In effect, members of this family are trained to contain and prevent these catastrophes. The family head is known as Stasis Eon, a gifted user of both chronurgy & graviturgy. His brother, a man by the name of Chronis Eon is a member of the Red King's council; there he acts as the top arcanist in the tower, the Exemplar Arcanis. One other significant individual, known by some as Jupiter Eon is the director of the P.I.E, a branch of the bureaucracy that deals with paranormal threats to the tower.

### **The Feyra Family**

Those in the Feyra family are known for their incredible pyromancies and magic surrounding the use of fire. Some of the most gifted users in the family have created flames that are considered by some historians to be hotter than a star clocking in at an alleged 50,000K. The current head of the family is known as Caleb Feyra, a militaristic fire genasi known for killing those who would disobey an order. His eldest son, a man by the name of Louis Feyra is considered to be an Exalted Acer, nearing the power of a god. Louis is a member of the Red King's council, and is considered it's High General. The Feyra family is considered to be one of the greatest assets to the Red King, as a majority of his standing army comes from recruits of this family.

### **The Grimke Family**

Those of the Grimke family are known to have an incredibly gift when using of abjuration magic, an innate gift in creating locks & an over-the-top love of Haggis. Their current head of the family is a man by the name of Grigor Grimke who has lead his family into prosperity over the last millennium. His brother, George Grimke was coerced into working for the Red King acting as his spymaster; George also being the father for Garruk Grimke.

On the surface the family is as prosperous as ever. Despite this, over the course of the last 2-3 centuries a rift has been growing within the family. Members of the Grimke family began to factionalize over several hot issues. Those that would disagree with the family would be considered a part of the rebels, whereas those who would agree with the family's public stances would be the **loyalists**. Among family members, this issue is known as the Haggis Dilemma. Such issues that are debated are autonomy to practice religions other than the way of the Pointed Star, the autonomy of family members to choose brides and of the family's stance towards their origin.

Notable Members: Garruk Grimke, Geo Grimke, George Grimke, Grigor Grimke, Gurben Grimke

Notable Vassal Families: Drochke Family, Ellias Family, Goldentoe Family, Thistlethumb Family

### **The Grimm Family**

Members of the Grimm family are considered to be gifted clerics and users of healing & radiant magic. They are known to maintain stoic attitudes in most situations, often veering away from worldly pleasures such as laughter or revelry. Despite this outlook on life, members are often incredibly passionate towards watching & playing in Towerball.

The current family head, known by some as Queen Adeia has recently put a lot of funding into training their Towerball team, and has lost some respect of the other family leaders for doing so. Her brother, Adeon Grimm is the current acting Surgeon General for the entire tower, and also is an acting member on the Red King's council.

Notable Members: Adelard Grimm**,** Adeon Grimm**,** Adeus Grimm**,** Aldeia Grimm

Notable Vassal Families:

### **The Horizon Family**

Members of the Horizon family are considered to be gifted magicians and users of lightning magic. Thunder Horizon, the current family head is considered by some to be one of the most powerful men in the tower. His influence and reach is extended by the many families that he has gained as vassals, which is currently over two hundred. The Horizon family has made a compromise when the Red King demanded the second in command to act in his council, Thunder acquiesced the position despite being the head of his family. Despite being Thunder's son, Vortex Bluesong has relinquished the family name in favor of his mother's name.

Notable Members: Thunder Horizon, Breeze Horizon, Olaf Horizon

Notable Vassal Families: Alton Family, Heliarc Family, Yodel Family

### **The Nari Family**

Members of the Nari family are considered to be the most gifted assassins, necromancers & politicians out of all of the families. Their current family head, Bahamad Nari is considered to be a wild card. Several of the current issues dividing members of the Triarchy, he flip-flops on to seed chaos. He habitually lies in order to cause confusion and often likes to slander the writers & editors of The Tower Times newspaper & others. Bahamad's brother, Nazeem Nari is the Court Assassin for the Red King.

The Nari family is considered to be bitter rivals with the Grimm family. Recently, Bahamad has gotten himself in a spending war with Queen Aldeia in order to try to win the Towerball Centennial, an event that is slated for the near future. Bahamad is openly racist against gnomes, having denounced their entire race; on floor 35 there is a 10,000 credit bounty on any gnome corpse brought to one of his family members.

Notable Members: Bahamad Nari, Nazeem Nari

Notable Vassal Families: Purmt Family, Nepec Family, Laminae Family, Arbnor Family, Navkia Family

### **The Terra Family**

Members of the Terra Family are considered to be the most gifted druids, builders, and are often directly in tune with nature and the earth. Their current family head, Hugo Terra is considered to be one of the most gentle of the family heads. His abilities lie in seeing the bigger picture in terms of the conflicts among the Triarchy, and often decides to stay as detached as possible. That isn't to say he is weak in any regard, rather a pacifist who can rip you in half should you prevent the peace. As such, the Terra family are often criticized for supporting the agenda of the Azure Concord. Although they don't technically affiliate with them. Hugo's distant decedent, Opal Terra is the Court Mentat for the Red King, and is considered one of the most gifted Mentats that has ever lived.

Notable Members: Sal Terra (biggest loser), Opal Terra, Hugo Terra

Notable Vassal Families:

### **The Sanguis Family**

Members of the **Sanguis** family are considered to be gifted hemomages, referring to those that are experts at blood magic and at making contracts. Members of this family are believed to have been descendants of the Blood Emperor's progeny however any attempts by family members to assert that connection have failed due to the Triarchy's work at destroying history regarding the Blood Emperor. (see **Genesis**) The family is considered to be the most openly rebellious towards the Red King by attempting to surpass his attempts at hiding their "true" lineage by uncovering secrets of the past. The family is considered to be the most gifted in making complicating contracts that work incredibly efficiently.

Notable Members: **Apollyon Sanguis**, **Saturia Sanguis**

Notable Vassal Families:

### **The Swift Family**

Members of the Swift family are considered to gifted athletes, in particular those of this family are rumored to have been blessed with great speed and reactions. The entire family is made up of several halflings. Despite being considered the quickest family, they are (broadly defined) by their incredible glutton & quick metabolisms. Members of the family often die at the young age of 120 (short for halflings) because of this. Due to a recent scandal involving doping of several members of the family, they have been barred from the The Towerball Centennial. Their family head is a halfling by the name of Saria Swift. Her son, Sai Swift is the head messenger for the Red King, and is also the Postmaster General for the entire tower.

Notable Members: **Saria Swift**, **Sai Swift**

Notable Vassal Families:

### **The Naagrost Family**

Members of the Naagrost Family are considered strange by everyone else in the tower. Their warlocks use strange magics to summon strange creatures and bind them to the tower. The most insane members leave the tower in search of those who possess vision beyond truth. They desire artifacts beyond space & time and believe that there is a greater explanation to the mysteries of the universe other than those told to them by the Triarchy & Rifters. They are fiercely loyal to the Triarchy despite completely disagreeing with most of their stances in regards to their "research." Their leader, Brere Naagrost believes the Red King is to be worshipped above all in the tower, however he still craves knowledge of events and transgressions outside of reality.

Notable Members: **Brere Naagrost, Ctulithim Naagrost**

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