House Armstrong

**Head of House**
 **Heir**
 **Seat**
 **Lands**
 **Overlords**

House Armstrong is one of the more recent additions to the Kingdom of Stormwind, the mantle of lordship vested to their progenitor only seven years ago but the men of the house have kept to their traditions for eons before. Renown for their unfaltering strength and brutality, garbed in myth and legend, and utterly unwavering in their service to the Alliance, it seemed only a matter of time before the annals of history would be forced to adopt the simplicity of their house words.

## History

### Founding

The storied history of Victor Armstrong's meritorious service to king and country culminated with the Burning Legion's Invasion of Azeroth. A mountain of demonic trophies would serve as the initial stimulus for what would become the House coffers, each pried from wicked flesh with their founder's Arcanite Reaper. Each an impossible victory in their own right, but ascent into legend demands even loftier opponents.

So then did Victor find his axe blade crossed with the Pit Lord Trelopades in the interest of saving a scattered company of knights in service to the Armies of Legionfall. An act of sacrifice, had the demon not been felled. Witnesses say the warrior cleaved the Pit Lord's skull in the Felfire Armory and screamed his house words with an inhuman wail.

Victorious yet maimed irrevocably from the encounter, Victor Armstrong was proclaimed a member of the gentry forevermore. Free to put down his axe and live out the rest of his days as the Lord of Bloodstone.

### Present Day

The Armstrong sons were not to rest idle come the burning of Teldrassil, their noble lineage split across the Alliance front far from their humble father and his Castle Bloodstone. Decorated with fanfare and Horde blood, they were bid to return home per summons to ease the passage of their sickly progenitor.

In true Armstrong tradition the catacombs beneath Bloodstone were scoured so that Lord Victor might sleep alone, interred as the first corpse in what would would inevitably become the family crypt for the rest of recorded history. Kaine was elevated to liege-lord and promptly emptied the family coffers in the interest of returning his family castle to it's former splendor. To further this end he gathered his most trusted guardsmen and rode west, where he swore obeisance to the Marquis Tarrenhol.

## Notable Members

### Kaine Armstrong

No better did the merits of House Armstrong manifest than in the formidable spirit of the eldest. Wielding his father's axe, Kaine sits as head of house, free to steer his family towards wealth and glory alike.

### Gael Armstrong

Second son to the late Lord Victor, Gael took up the mantle of his once disgraced father. Where the sire lost faith in his service to the Silver Hand come the Culling of Stratholme, the son inherited the remnants of that now broken belief. The Light smiles upon Gael Armstrong, so he forfeited his inheritance in the interest of a life of piety.

## Lands and Vassals

### Bloodstone

The ruined Castle Bloodstone has sit empty in Redridge for an inordinate amount of time, the keep and nearby silver mine razed to the ground by the neighboring Blackrock tribes. In the six years since it's passage to Lord Victor, the silver has resumed its flow and the walls rebuilt, but the keep proper is not yet fit for a Lord. Expected, perhaps, that Bloodstone is mostly manned by commoners and stonemasons while her gentry resides in the County of Avercroft.