House Tuillieres

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**House Tuillieres** is a Stormwindian noble house that rules over the Barony of Sembourg in the Duchy of Alcestenne.

Loyal servants of House Laurent, the Tuillieres family can trace a lineage back to raiders that ravaged the northern shore of Balor Isle during the Ten Years' Strife, federated and assimilated over the five hundred years that followed. They now serve as the ruling house in Sembourg.

## History

### Arrival and Defeat

Originally a clan of raiders and their cohorts by a name lost to time, those that would become the Tuillieres came upon the shores of Alcestenne on the northern shore of Balor to ravage the isle under the sigil of a black wolf. Only by the time they had reached the central regions of Alcestenne was a quickly mustered force under the command of Andria Laurent and the Lord-Marshal Isperia Allaire able to put down the incursion in November, 129 K.Y.

This decisive defeat forced the defeated clan to negotiate with Andria and Isperia, who decided to spare their people and force them into a treaty of federation, settling them on the land and swearing them to the service of House Laurent. The Houses Adalbertu and Erculanu were established nearby in order to ensure the peace was kept.

### Assimilation and Founding

House Tuillieres was officially founded in March of 130 K.Y. when House Laurent's partriarch at the time, Andria Laurent, elevated Adalman to nobility under the Kingdom of Stormwind, granting his family the name Tuillieres, harkening to the productive quarries of the land they had settled.

This formally established the House, as well as the Barony of Sembourg, which had previously been directly ruled from Auritoise.

The official animal of the newly-established House Tuillieres became a black stag, in reference to the elegant Baloric stags prolific in the region, in order to cast off the trappings of their old, uncouth ways.

### Rebellion of Radagost

Following an ill-paid wedding dowry, relations broke down between the Houses Laurent and Tuillieres, though it is no longer known who refused to pay. As a result, Baron Radagost Tuillieres once again raised the banner of the black wolf in rebellion, waging war against Alcestenne.

A host under the command of Mativet Allaire, then Lord-Marshal of Alcestenne, was responsible for crushing the rebellion of Radagost, after numerous setbacks in the mountainous passes of Sembourg, resulting in the renegade army of Radagost making a name for itself, and not being relegated to the annals of history. Radagost himself was executed at dusk before a crowd, by a relative who remained loyal to House Laurent, Vetericus Tuillieres, the executioner's sword coming to be known as Sundown-- A blade since used to execute all those who wrong House Tuillieres enough to earn death by their hand.

This black mark upon the name of Tuillieres resulted in a great backlash, with many bandits in the wake of the rebellion and for generations since taking up the name of 'the Black Wolf,' in honor of Radagost.

Furthermore, a superstition about black-furred wolves bringing ill omen developed among the people of Sembourg, and as a result wolves have been hunted to endangerment in the Barony.

### First War

Owing to their stiff resistance against the ravages of the Orcish Horde, much of House Tuillieres was killed while resisting the invasion of Balor, and the Barony of Sembourg suffered greatly in the years of occupation, becoming fallow and losing much of the arability of the land.

Left to see to their own reconstruction following the war, Sembourg's rebuilding was financed by the great gold mines and industries of the Barony, and the black stag of Tuillieres was made red in honor of the blood of those lost to the Orcish invaders.

The overall abandonment of Balor by the mainland peerage inspired in the House a reactionary streak, bringing them well in line with the rest of the Duchy of Alcestenne.

### Present Day

To the current day, House Tuillieres rules over the Barony of Sembourg and fosters close relations with House Laurent, though it has suffered recent losses, with the father and brother of Baron Garrick Tuillieres both dying within 25 years of one another.

Sean Tuillieres passed of old age in 630 K.Y, and Gabriel Tuillieres, the former heir, passed of a strange illness in 605 K.Y., causing many to theorize that magical affliction or poison was involved in his death.

Regardless, Garrick Tuillieres assumed the office of Baron, and now rules over all Sembourg.

## Notable Members

### Garrick Tuillieres

Garrick Tuillieres is the current head of the House, a personal friend of Trant Laurent and a Knight of Balor, he is staunchly committed to the cause of Alcestenne, and serves faithfully under the banner of his liege.

A remarkably unpleasant man, he proves an effective and steady hand to rule over a Barony wracked by uncertainty and fractious politics.

### Adalman Tuillieres

The founder of the House, Adalman was once the head of a clan of raiders who had come to pillage northern Balor but soon found themselves at the mercy of House Laurent, by whom they were federated, assimilated and elevated.

Little truth is known of Adalman, but it is said that he had come to respect the martial prowess of the Baloric people, and came to serve faithfully.

### Radagost Tuillieres

The one who raised once more the Black Wolf, Radagost the Rabid, the terrible tyrant, he who shamed House Tuillieres.

Radagost was the first and so far, only member of House Tuillieres to make a rebel of himself, either seeking recompense for a dowry left unpaid by House Laurent, or fighting to leave it unpaid himself, he was eventually executed in the center of a war-torn Sembourg city by his own brother, Vetericus.

### Vetericus Tuillieres

Loyal to his liege even in spite of his brother's rebellion, Vetericus helped the forces of Mativet Allaire crush the rebellion of Radagost, and came to assume the title of Baron Sembourg, working to reconcile the differences between Tuillieres and Laurent, Vetericus set the fiefdom and House on a path to rejuvenation rather than ruin.

The blade which he used to slay his own blood has come to be known as Sundown, the famous blade of House Tuillieres that is used to execute any and all deemed worthy.

## Lands and Vassals

### Sembourg

House Tuillieres reigns over the Barony of Sembourg, an industrial fiefdom that produces much in the way of metal and mineral goods in Alcestenne, exporting it across the Duchy for great profits.

### Vassals

House Adalbertu and House Erculanu serve under House Tuillieres, originally sent by House Laurent to ensure the compliance of Adalman, they rule over the regions of Athdoran and Rounoît respectively.

## Coat of Arms

**Crest:**
Bloody Stag of Sembourg

**Colors:**
Black, Green, Yellow, Orange, Baloric Blue

**Symbology:**
Stags, Star of Balor, Anchor

**Description of Shield:**
Fields of green and black bisected diagonally, with the yellow and orange Star of Balor in at the top of the crest, and the Anchor of Alcestenne in the top left corner. In the lower black field is the Bloody Stag of Sembourg, representing the sacrifices of the Barony and House Tuillieres.

**Orders:**
Stormwind Knighthood

**Motto:**
Honor, duty and blood!