House Moonfall

### Members

Willow Moonfall; Julius Moonfall; Athium Moonfall; Thyra Moonfall; Hera Moonfall; Saoirse Moonfall; Molly Moonfall

### Social rank

Nobles

****House Moonfall**** is an Imperial noblehouse formerly based in the Gold Coast and currently based in Karthald, Western Skyrim. The current head of the House is Lady Thyra Moonfall.

## Rumors

* *"Imperial nobles wishing to establish in Western Skyrim? Have you ever heard anything more absurd?"*
* *"I heard they had a deal with local nobles, but it went sour."*
* *"They're apparently looking for all warriors and mages they can get their hands on. They apparently pay alright too. Nobles really do have all the money in the world."*

## History

### Sorrow Star and the loss of the Moonfall Estate

House Moonfall offered its aid to a Tamriel riddled with attacks by Daedra and Reachmen, during the Sorrow Star Campaign. Though the head of the House leaving and taking her best warriors with her left the estate and lands themselves vaulnerable for attacks. Moonfall Estate in the Gold Coast fell to bandits and opportunists and many of the remaining residents died or were forced to flee, including Lady Willows only daughter, Thyra.

Left defeated after recieving the news Julius Moonfall managed to secure a piece of land for his daughter and their people in Karthald, Western Skyrim. The group of warriors and those that managed to flee the chaos in Cyrodiil were all that was left in an attempt to rebuild and restablish the House in a new kingdom in preparation to take back what was taken from them in the Gold Coast.

### Dragons and Curses

Soon after the Moonfallers had started setteling in their new home, warrants for Saoirse Eklunds head were put out, the fiancé of Lady Willow's son, Athium. These warrants were put up around the time of Saoirse and Athiums wedding anouncement, by the Dragon-Tear family, whom heir Saoirse had killed almost a year prior, in a duell. In an attempt to win time Willow devised a plan that had Saoirse and Athium getting married in secret first and during a second, public ceremony Saoirse would run away, with Athium following after her to catch her. The two would stay absent until the matter of Saoirses bounty had been dealt with. The Dragon-Tears held a dinner party for House Moonfall a while later, a party where the engagement of Thyra Moonfall and Torkell Dragon-Tear was decided. Erik and Vahrlok conspired in secret to kill the head of the House, Lady Edda Dragon-Tear, since they knew Torkell would retract the bounty on Saoirses head once he became the acting Lord. Lady Dragon-Tear died a few weeks later, according to the temple of Orkay, of natural causes.

During the same time, Thyra started to become incredibly sick. It was discovered that her illness was connected to an ancient family curse that was put on the Moonfalls during the time of the death of the Potentate Emperor. With the help of witches discovered by the Trinity, Thyra was cured from her sickness. During this curing ritual it was also discovered that Julius Moonfall's sister Senna Moonfall, was alive, as she was one of the witches responsible for curing Thyra of her illness.

A while later the Trinity attempted to play a prank on Willow, though it went heavily out of hand. Thyra killed a guard in an accident and the whole greenhouse burned down to crisp. When Willow confronted her daughter about this, Thyra heavy heartedly admitted to it after Willow blamed the Dragon-Tear family and threatened to go to war with them. This was what finally snapped Willows psyche after all the hard times she has had recently. Something seemed almost to posess her as she ordered Thyra locked in a tower. A few days later she left to go to her homested in the woods. Erik, who was now in charge of the hamlet, freed Thyra from her prison. Athium and Saoirse returned that night, surprised by Thyra telling them they needed to go after Willow who had gone mad immediately.

At Willow's homested the group was met by Willow transforming into a particularly disgusting watcher. After killing the watcher, Willow was nowhere to be found. All that was left was a broken crystal. They took the crystal back to the hamlet for their mages to look into. After their return the burnt down greenhouse was suddenly infested with spiders that they didn't seem able to get rid of. Athium was now the acting Lord with Saoirse as the acting Lady. As such they were in charge of deciding Thyras punishment for the murder of a guard. An action that had left the general population increasingly uneasy. Athium decided his sister was to recieve 20 lashes by the victims family. A showing that some thought to be too much for a death that a child caused by accident, while others were adamant about the fact that her punishment was too light. Thyras lashing was also the first time that Molly, Willows step-granddaughter, started to be posessed by Willow, after being bitten by some of the spiders infesting the greenhouse. The toddlers eyes occasionally went black and she spoke with Willows voice, begging to be freed from her prison.