House Solvei

The House of the Frigid Sun

## History

As one of the Valkyrie sisters to the Silver Swan the Golden Goose Kára helped stabilize the town of Skal after the war of the Axe. She was well known for her flashy and iconic fighting style of using a cold light to freeze the enemies it lighted upon. With her Spear 'Frossen sol' she swept through her enemies with her spear glistening with blue light. Those who stayed within its light would find their bodies slowing before freezing over. Making them ample targets for the blades attacks. She is known for riding into battle on her Stymphaladies Stålstorm, a massive beast of razor steel feathers which was a weapon just by moving about. After the battle with the dwarves ended she retreated back to Skal to help the Silver Swan stabilize the town.

Golden Goose Kára was the first one to make contact with the weather shamans of the north. They came to her to ask about the frigid light she wielded and how it related to the mysterious lights that would shine upon the night sky sometimes in the north. The Valkyrie then went forward to teach the shamans the way of the Aurora's and went forward to help them create the Aurora Crest and provide a center for the shamans to learn and advance their skills. As such she is often referenced as a descendant of the sun goddess Sol. Despite her refuting this many times the rumors still stand and many view her as partially divine, an aspect reinforced by her lack of aging as an outsider.

Eventually the Golden Goose Kára would find herself bored of taking part in the construction of the town and seperated herself from the Aurora Crest, instead spending her time travelling the Material Plane. Rumors are that she met one of the Champions of the Age of Dynasties and not much longer later she was found to be pregnant with their child. After some time they gave birth to a woman known as Dagny who she bestowed the last name Solvei too. While Golden Goose Kára had high expectations of the girl to continue learning her martial abilities it was quickly proven that she had skills in other areas.

Dagny as she grew up proved highly intelligent. Quickly making many financial investments into the fishing and trapping trade in Skal after reaching adulthood. By the time they had reached middle aged they had amassed quite a large merchant trade group and was one of the wealthiest people in the town. At this point in time however the woman realized it was time to cash in so to speak and look to continuing her family's line. Gifted the title of Thane by the Silver Swan she looked to continue the house by finding a strong champion to continue passing down her mothers martial skills. She found it in an orc named Skovich who proved his might by facing one of the towns Fallen with nothing but his fists. After a brief conversation she arranged a political marriage with the man and the Golden Goose Kára began to teach him her martial arts. Not long after he was one of the strongest men in the town. He had a child with Dagny (and rumor has it many others too) and the house Solvei was continued as their Daughter Mayrie was born. A kitsune girl with pink hair and a stern temperament.

After this the house continued its merchant business, Mayrie learning from her mother and taking over. While unskilled in magic like her mother, and unskilled in martial abilities like her father. The girl was even smarter and sterner with herself then her mother. She managed to continue the business and even make it thrive until they controlled most of the gold going through the nation. Perhaps this was why she gained the title of the 'Iron Maiden' as people found her as difficult to deal with and her will as unbreakable as good iron. Many thought she would remain unmarried until her death but this was proven false as a half orc named Igor who in contrast to the others who tried to win her hand through acts of bravery did so by art. He would whisper poetry to her in the morning, speak of philosophy in the noon, and whisper promises in the evening. Eventually, even the Iron Maiden was brought low by his artistic heart and was soon to be wed to him. After that he learned the ways of the Golden Goose and became a wonderful warrior poet like the north had never seen. He was often seen as charismatic and a wonderful example that one need not lead by force, but could lead by heart to the battle hardened vikings. After a while Mayrie was found pregnant and over the course of a decade they gave birth too three children.

The first was a Kitsune named Balder. He took after his mother with his contemplative and serious nature. Learning how to act for the family out of responsibility and pride. He quickly became skilled with the Earthbreaker and heavy armor and became known as the rumbling mountain as he marched into battle. Shattering armor with massive blows and the beasts claws and fangs as well. He is viewed as the upcoming talent of the Solvei line and likely to become a master warrior with age.

The second was a kitsune girl known as Yuki. She was about as far from her mother as could be. Capricious, mischievous, and free willed she often escaped lessons to go around getting into trouble. This would often lead her into Golden Goose Kára's clutches who found the small girl rather fun to have around. As such the Goose attempted to teach her the martial arts before realizing the girl had absolutely zero martial talent. After the girl was beat up enough to realize this fact she instead took her to the Aurora Crest where she learned that she was in fact skilled with weather and light magic. Yuki and her great grandmother formed a rather special relationship of trust and fun even as the girls relationship with the rest of her family worsened. Now the girl is often not even home and tends to avoid her family as much as possible.

The third is a half orc child known as Eindreed who is still young. He seems quiet and introverted though his siblings often can make his mood brighten. All in all he is a rather normal child, curious yet cowardly he has no real expectations of him as of yet due to his current age of eight.