Bruno Astilor

**Bruno Braun**, formerly Bruno Astilor, is a noble in Valreach. He is the head of House Braun and founder of the city of Braunlande.

## History

*Side Note:* I have tried my best to keep this page in chronological order of my time on Stoneworks. All of the events listed below are a blend of fictional lore/storytelling and how the events actually played out in game for me.

### Early Life

Very little is known about the parents of Bruno Braun, but it is understood that his father was in the military and his mother was a baker by profession. They both died to common ailments in Bruno's early teens. Bruno and his brother Sulla were initially born and raised in the city of Valrum, Valreach. They grew up on the city streets and enjoyed their time there, while it lasted. By the time they become adolescents, they began to realise that Valrum was not a very ambitious city to live in. Its initial growth and architecture were marvels to behold but the city soon ground to a halt when its Lord Mayor vanished. The city had unfinished projects and vacant lots of land where ever you went.

However, the young pair were swept up by the ambitious Charles Astilor of House Astilor, who played into the brothers dreams and aspirations for bigger things than the city streets of Valrum. He proposed to them that when they came of age, they could construct their own city under Charles' guidance, where he could show them the ropes of how to build a city, both in design and in culture. The brothers agreed to this notion and made the journey to Ludenstadt in the west to begin their new lives as adopted sons of House Astilor.

### Welcome to Brown Town

The time had come, and Bruno Astilor was now given permission to begin his ambitious construction of a city at age 20. He was given a small plot of land north of Ludenstadt Castle, covered in jungle tress and brown earthy dirt beneath the canopy. Bruno and Sulla gave the settlement the title of Carantania temporarily, but after some thought, they agreed to name the town Braunlande, quite literally named after the brown soils they were greeted with when they first laid eyes on the plot. Braunlande quickly grew into a town of many peoples, from all over the Valrean state and into one of the most populous cities in not only in the region of Edenheim, but in Valreach as a whole.

### The Long Road to National Recognition, Pt1

The Braunlanders had been settled for quite some time now, but they learned that the nobles of Valreach did not know of their existence at all until now, a considerable time after the founding of Braunlande. They came to visit and ultimately said that they were not great fans of the towns architecture, and suggested it have a makeover. The architects of Braunlande took this in their stride and remodeled a great deal of the town at the time.

But this wasn't enough for the nobles. The building design become coherent enough for their liking, however, there were constant remarks on the 'isolationism' of Braunlande from the rest of the empire and that it needed to be rectified. Bruno and the Braunlanders of course wanted this, they did want to integrate with the rest of the Empire, but there were not a great deal of opportunities for them to do so. The nobles were quite huddled in on themselves, there were never any problems at their end of the Empire. And if there were, they used their connections to make their troubles seem either insignificant or made sure that they were not publicized to the nation. There were not a great deal of national mingling events either pre the founding of House Braun, which left the Bruno and the Braunlanders feeling isolated not of their own volition, but rather at the lack of considerable activity outside of their home region of Edenheim.

### The Passing of Charles Astilor

Charles Astilor passed away at 80 years of age when Bruno turned 21. This was a sad day indeed. His adoptive uncle, but more like his father, had left him. Bruno mourned his loss very deeply as not only was he like father to Bruno, he was also an excellent mentor. Charles son, Karl, was very similar to his father, but due to his young age, with extra ambition. This would prove to be mighty helpful in future.

### The Long Road to National Recognition, Pt2

With all this combined, the nobles remarks, Charles' passing, and the relatively rapid growth of Braunlande, Bruno saw it high time to take this opportunity to cement himself and Braunlande in the noble sphere. He took an idea to Karl: a Braunlande noble house, where they would be a vassal under Astilor as it was their land Braunlande was built on. But a noble house would give them a voice of their own, to bring Braunlandes issues directly to the business end of Valreach. Karl was a little apprehensive at the idea, but agreed on it in good faith between the Astilor name and Bruno. And so House Braun was founded on the 9th of December 2023 and Bruno Astilor turned Bruno Braun, the first head of the house.

### Getting Cuffed

Not long after the founding of House Braun, Bruno found himself eyeing another prize. One Violet O'Clair, a traveler from the far west of Eldham set on finding a new home. He instantly fell for her, she was gorgeous. Artistic, filled with love for everyone and everything. And an oddly big fan of pigs. But she was also strong, strong minded and strong willed. He thought to himself that, a strong noble head of house should have an equally strong spouse? So, quite simply, he asked her to marry him. They married on the 10th of December 2023.