Prosperia

Over many, many years three incredibly rich families of aristocrats congregated in one area, the patch of land that would come to be known as **Prosperia**:

The family **Trover**, the family **Ekwind** and the family **Rho**. Each of them was huge in number and each was rich beyond the wildest dreams of the average *Twilownian*. Pooling their money together the three families set about constructing a lavish small city to be proud of- the best of the best. The three families indulged in an extravagant and hedonistic lifestyle not too dissimilar from that of the *Affluosa*, but their respective ambitions kept them from weakening like the *Affluosa* as the three families continued to grow their respective business empires across *Vendir*. Given their entitled and lavish lifestyles, the residents of the new city **Prosperia** were always looking for new and exciting ways to indulge. This led to Jacinda Rho creating The Society that would come to have such a significant relationship with Burial Byroad. Long after Jacinda’s death The Society continued as an open secret in **Prosperia**. While many *Prosperians* were happy members, regularly ordering and eating the flesh of the dead delivered to them by the Donkeys of ***Burial Byroad***, many more were disgusted by the practice and refused to get involved- seeing it as a great stain on *Prosperia’s* reputation.

In the *City of Galdos*, then known as *The Lawless City of Shame*, a few of the richer families felt the city’s shift into something better, as led by The Dreamers, was taking far-too-long. Of these families, seven came together to hold private council. After much debate the ten families felt they would be better off venturing out and away from The Lawless City of Shame to establish their own city. In exploring they discovered ***Prosperia***, and the seven families moved in- merging with the three who already lived there- becoming what we come to be known as: The Ten Great Houses of ***Prosperia***.

HAYMOK CALDASSIAS (head of the house)

* His wife, JONIE
* Their children:
	+ Their son, RELFWIND
	+ Their daughter, ELGYIUH
	+ Their son, SENFILIMOR
* His siblings:
	+ His brother, BORBOS
		- His wife, DELIGWAIN
		- Their daughter, ROSE
		- Their son, HENWIL
	+ His sister, VANNDA
		- Her husband, YOMMIE
		- Their son, RERT
		- Their twin daughters, WOMARK and CILFWIN
		- Their son, ONKMOS

Their riches were achieved due to a successful food-trading network.

**House Trover, in the Fourth Era:**

QUENIEBEKK TROVER (head of the house)

* His wife, HOOLIER
* Their children:
	+ Their son, QUNIEBEKK II
	+ Their son, MONTI
* His siblings:
	+ His brother, COLSUN
	+ His sister, FORI

Their riches were achieved due to a successful food-trading network.

**House Thickleberry, in the Fourth Era:**

TRO THICKLEBERRY (head of the house)

* His wife, VONTROS
* Their children:
	+ Their daughter, VONTROS II
	+ Their son, AMON
* His brother, MASSIKUS
	+ His wife, ZULI
	+ Their son, CROB
	+ Their daughter, KARA
* His sister, SOLMI
	+ Her husband, CRELLIUS

Their riches were achieved due to a successful wine-trading network.

**House Foldyer, in the Fourth Era:**

SYMON FOLDYER (head of the house)

* His wife, CELIN
* Their children,
	+ Their daughter, KWELLIMOOR
	+ Their daughter, SAYNOSSIKUS
	+ Their daughter, HOLIHY
	+ Their daughter, YOLLIFWIP
	+ Their daughter, WELTWIN
* His sister, CALMOS
* His sister, GWENTIR
* His sister, FILCRINILER

Their riches were achieved due to a successful trading network of Affluosan artefacts and trinkets.

**House Ekwind, in the Fourth Era:**

ASTON EKWIND (head of the house)

* His wife, CENDRILL
* Their children,
	+ Their daughter, GWY
	+ Their daughter, HOLSTUNNI
	+ Their son, AYORI
* His sister, VORIFIT
* His brother, ALLOMEIR
	+ His wife, VILLISTILL
	+ Their children,
		- Their son, HOLMOS
		- Their twin sons, TY and UPIP
		- Their daughter, QUENDILLI
		- Their daughter, PENROSE-MAYNOR
		- Their son, JUK

Their riches were achieved due to a successful food-trading network.

**House Estonivelt, in the Fourth Era:**

ZONTI ESTONIVELT (head of the house)

* His wife, JYMAY
* Their children,
	+ Their son, KWAIN
	+ Their son, KWON
* His brother, ZY
	+ His wife, ULLIUS
	+ Their children,
		- Their son, BILK
		- Their son, BRONT
		- Their son, JAYVILLIUS
		- Their son, SOOTUN
		- Their daughter, MAYNIN
		- Their daughter, EMELIHILK
		- Their son, OSTOS
* His brother, ZONIKUS
	+ His wife, HELEGAHOS
	+ Their children,
		- Their daughter, KWENSTIL

Their riches were achieved due to a successful food-trading network.

**House Velimoss, in the Fourth Era:**

FOSTIN VELIMOSS (head of the house)

* His wife, CORNIKA
* Their children,
	+ Their son, FAYDRON
	+ Their son, WELSTOE
	+ Their son, ROBULIS
* His sister, MOMINDA

Their riches were achieved due to a successful food-trading network.

**House Yurt, in the Fourth Era:**

TYGRILL YURT (head of the house)

* His wife, LEEANDA
* Their children,
	+ Their son, VORT
	+ Their son, VYMORTIKU
	+ Their daughter, GIDDIK

Their riches were achieved due to a successful trading network of Affluosan artefacts and trinkets.

**House McClendos, in the Fourth Era:**

MOMUD MCCLENDOS (head of the house)

* His wife, REY
* Their children,
	+ Their son, MOMUD II
* His brother, FILDROK
	+ His wife, TILLIE
	+ Their children:
		- Their son, BILVONE
		- Their son, KOTH
		- Their daughter, FENNIFER
* His brother, HORTIK
	+ His wife, OMOKKIKU
	+ Their children,
		- Their son, HOPPIT
		- Their son, MAYSUN
		- Their son, ARNOLD
		- Their son, CAMOT
		- Their son, BYJIN
		- Their son, HIKKARD
		- Their son, PIP

Their riches were achieved due to a successful trading network of Affluosan artefacts and trinkets.

**House Rho, in the Fourth Era:**

ROLDUN RHO (head of the house)

* His wife, DWINDA
* Their children,
	+ Their son, GHOTT
	+ Their son, GROMM
	+ Their daughter, WAITLYN
* His sister, FOSTILLIAN
* His sister, JAHRYE
* His sister, DEE
* His sister, YOOKE
* His sister, ZIKKI

Their riches were achieved due to a successful food-trading network.

With their collective funding The Ten Great Houses were able to quickly grow a city full of large mansions, grand estates and sizable gardens- all enclosed by tall and sturdy golden gates. Each family built a grand estate, each giving their sizable home a name:

* The Caldassias Family built the estate: voqê,un jymip (Affluosan for Dream Big)
* The Trover Family built the estate: Gori (Affluosan for The Pantry)
* The Thickleberry built the estate: sumja inf nori iiêrr unôįii (Affluosan for A New World )
* The Foldyer Family built the estate: êæqv,ø (ê) eli mowai iche êvoql, (Affluosan for Escape From Shame)
* The Ekwind Family built the estate: Gr!êrr æêrø (Affluosan for The Next Step)
* The Estonivelt Family built the estate: rrįmr,M (ipvoq) (Affluosan for Ambition)
* The Velimoss Family built the estate: Gôêrrê, øqôjy (Affluosan for The Greener Grass)
* The Yurt Family built the estate: sumja inf nori øßįô’æ (ôįôæ) unrrq (Affluosan for A Prosperous Land)
* The McClendos Family built the estate: Grøêq’R rrmqrr,J (ßįvo) (The Tallest Mountain)
* The Rho Family built the estate: sumja inf nori ôêrê’ iiįôį’į (r) (Affluosan for A Better Tomorrow)

But things soon soured for T**he Ten Great Houses of Prosperia.** Worried that there were no young men in his family, Symon Foldyer forced his eldest daughter Kwellimoor to marry Holmos of House Ekwind- uniting the two families into one. The other Eight Great Houses were all worried that the union could see House Foldyer and House Elmos grow into the most powerful families in *Prosperia*, especially House *Caldassias*. Seeking to join that new union himself, Haymok Caldassias forced his son Relfwind to marry Symon Foldyer’s second eldest daughter *Saynossikus*.

Quiniebekk Trover was deeply concerned that three of the families were now one, so instructed his son Quiniebekk II to murder both Holmos Foldyer and Relfwind Caldassias- thus severing the connection between the three families. But Quiniebekk II refused. Eager to impress his father, Quiniebekk’s younger son Monti, who overheard everything, murdered Holmos and Relfwind himself. But, in his clumsiness, Monti was caught by Symon in the midst of murdering Elmos by Holmos’s father Allomeir- who brutally beat Monti to death for revenge. Overwhelmed by inherited guilt, the sensitive Quinibekk II took his own life- leaving Quinibekk sans heir and House Trover in tatters. Quinibekk’s wife Hoolier abandoned her husband in the middle of the night, departing Prosperia for somewhere unknown. With Quinibekk now old, his only hope to continue his family was that his far younger brother, Colsun, might hopefully ‘settle down.’

But Prosperia had far bigger problems than Quinibekk’s concerns about his family name: A civil war had been ignited in the city. Ghott and Grom, of House Rho, were close friends with Monti Trover and vowed revenge on Allomeir Ekwind. In the middle of the night the pair broke into his mansion and stabbed him to death in his sleep. Come the morning, Ghott and Grom had proudly displayed Allomeir’s severed corpse in the streets of Prosperia. All of Allomeir’s children, Holmos, Ty, Pip, Quendilli, Penrose-Maynor and Juk charged at Ghott and Grom- a brutal street fight breaking out. Horrified by the death of her husband, and the actions of her children, Villistill Ekwind made a break for it- fleeing from Prosperia and heading back to Galdos.

Almost every resident of Prosperia raced out of their homes and into the streets, joining the fight, as all-out-chaos and bloodshed erupted. Hamos, Jone, Elgyiuh, Senfilimor, Borbos, Deligwain, Rose, Henwil, Vanda, Som, Rert, Yommie, Womark and Cilfwin of the family Caldassias all hid in in their mansion, as did Colsun and Fori of the family Trover. All others took part in the vicious street-fight.

The losses were high, the population of Prosperia severely reduced in just one night. House Yurt was entirely wiped out, meaning there were now just Nine Great Houses of Prosperia. By the end of the battle, Prosperia was a wildly different place. Given the great losses the Nine Great Houses agreed to try and look past their differences, to try and foster Prosperia into the sophisticated city for aristocrats they had all dreamt of building. But, privately, each Great Family was secretly desperate to be the best. Though the ‘public civil war’ of Prosperia was over, a secret one continued to quietly rage...

With House **Caldassias** and House **Trover** both in good-standing post The Civil War of *Prosperia*, both were able to get back on their feet far quicker than the other Great Families of Prosperia. House **Caldassias** saw great financial possibility in utilizing their trade network to buy and sell slaves, along with their other goods. It swiftly proved successful, with the trading of child slaves soon replacing all other trading they were involved in. In a short amount of time House **Caldassias** only grew richer and richer. Envious, House Trover chose to follow suit.

House **Thickleberry, Foldyer, Ekwind, Estonivelt , Velimoss, McClendos and Rho** continued within their already established industries, though all of them were quietly jealous of the ever-growing fortunes of House **Caldassias** and House **Trover**. As ***The Great War*** of the Continents raged, the residents of *Prosperia* remained out of it- focusing instead on building up Prosperia to ever greater and grander heights. As the rest of *Vendir* struggled through the war *Prosperia* benefitted, House **Caldassias** and House **Trover** selling slaves to BOTH sides as young soldiers. This unified front saw some of the tensions between the Nine Great Houses quiet down as they focused instead on working together. As a result, *Prosperia* grew to be one of the grandest locations in all of *Vendir*.