House of Vergi

Badge of the House of Vergi

The **House of Vergi** is the reigning royal imperial house of the Sous Novian Empire and is the most influential of the ruling houses among the Mythical Nations being older than the rest of the houses; the House of Vergi were founded by the young Archduchess Elizabeth the Just (during the reign of her mother, Archduchess Mary the Magnificent) as there was no official or established ruling family at the time. Founded in May 16, 203 AD they quickly rose to power as the supreme power of Sous Novia (then only a small landlocked country). There was enormous anti-German sentiment when the ruling house was founded by the young Archduchess as rumors circulated in the Kingdom that they intended to kidnap her; before the Germans could even kidnap her, Sous Novian warriors ravished their lands and destroyed their crops leaving them to starve through the entirety of winter without any food. They are mostly responsible for keeping a tight leash on Avalon and their ruling family, due to being the biggest country with enough resources to occupy Avalon as well as maintain their own borders; in fact members of this house often marry country personifications due to their abundant source of magic. Archduchess Elizabeth the I`s daughter, Elizabeth II soon rose to prominence as the High Empress of the newly-founded Sous Novian Empire; from then on, the House of Vergi was known as the second-oldest reigning Imperial House.

## Background

   Archduchess Mary II and her later and only daughter/child, Archduchess Titania, were members of the Han dynasty by virtue of their descent from Peony Han, Empress consort, wife of Emperor Gaozu of the Han dynasty. Her mother late fell ill and the young Archduchess Titania traveled from the Han dynasty`s territories to the Sous Novian Empire where she assumed power directly after her mother`s passing; due to her unusual and Asian-like appearance, she was assumed to be an imposter to the throne. Her birth records which her servants had brought with them asserted her claim to the throne, and she assumed the surname of Virgo (then the surname of the Sous Novian Empire`s Imperial Family). Out of her one-hundred children, seven of them married commoners (their titles being stripped from them and replaced with a Baroness/Baroness title), her (93) other children married into noble families with high lineages; out of those other 93 children, Viola and Hedwig (statistically the 8th and 9th-oldest children respectively) both of them married somebody outside of the Empire, the Country Personifications of Ireland and Wales respectively. In 1987, Hedwig and her husband (Wales) purchased Ham House and decided to live in it; this decision sparked an enormous row between Hedwig and her mother (as her father refused to intervene as it was not his right). The Goddess of Victory, Lucy granted Hedwig immortality outside of the Mythical Nations extending it to anywhere in the world. The same immortal status was granted to Viola and her husband (Ireland) who purchased Bindon Abbey from the previous landowners and restored the manor which had been burnt down during the English Civil War; this decision saved them from having to buy land situated on the Kirkland estate as Ireland wanted to avoid either Viola or Hedwig from meeting his younger brother, England (also known as Arthur Kirkland).

## Physical Appearances

Being aristocrats, the House of Vergi and their subsequent Cadet Branches have small, elegant, shapely noses, fair skin and glorious bodies; a majority of the family has hair that trends towards a shade of black/gray or a shade of yellow/warm amber/old gold, etc. They are also incredibly tall (at least among the women, though there have been some women that are shorter than the men). Their features are cold and stiff, with no happiness or joy; despite their seemly cold indifference, they are uncannily beautiful and considered to be some of the most beautiful people in the world, outmatching the Romanova Imperial Family.