House Basileus

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House Basileus

We Who Pull the Tide

 

Sigil and Colors

 

Sigil

A pale grey Crescent Moon on a navy blue and deep purple field.

(WIP)

 

Colors

 

Royal Blue

Pale Grey

Royal Purple

 

History

 

The Coming of the Rhenyar

 

Long ago, an ancient people known as the Rhenyar made their home east of the Aegean continent in a confederation of island nations known as Rhen. These island nations were each ruled by a patriarchal Clan, and while they had no single leader and no legal method by which the confederation was governed as a whole, the different Clans hardly quarrelled and maintained steady peace.

 

However, in the year 457 a brutal plague struck the eastern isles of Rhen, and the result was absolute panic. The nations began to war with each other, attempting to keep the other’s infected victims from reaching their own land. In the end, each and every island of Rhen was infected to the point of being unsavable. Four of the nation’s patriarchs, called Archons, banded together and left Rhen in a mass exodus to the west.

 

The Rhenyar landed in north-eastern Oren, only to find a Kingdom in disrepair. The northern lords of Oren warred with each other, laying waste to the countryside and undermining the King’s demand to cease the bloodshed. One of the Archons of Rhen, Balthazar I of the Basileus Clan, subdued the other three Archons and led the mass of Rhenyar into battle against the warring northerners, subduing Lord after Lord with his extremely well organized and disciplined army via a powerful blitz.

 

Balthazar I then offered fealty to the King of Oren in exchange for land to thrive, and impressed with Balthazar’s skill in battle and grateful for his subjugation of the unruly northern lords, agreed on the condition that he convert to the One True Faith. Balthazar I agreed, but his fellow Archons disagreed, believing the Rhenyar’s worship of their moon-god imperative to their future survival. Balthazar called the northern lords banner’s and along with aid from the King of Oren, he defeated the other three Archons, solidifying the Rhenyar conversion to the True Faith.

 

The Return of the House

 

House Basileus dwindled in the last century of Aegis, nearly dying out save a few descendants who took little interest in maintaining their land or levies. However, Lorethos Basileus’ efforts reforged the House under King Godfrey of Oren after his efforts in conquering Salvus and Seventis in Oren’s name.

 

However, just as House Basileus once again was growing and gaining a foothold in Orenian nobility, Lorethos Basileus found himself on the run from assassins. He departed from the realm in an attempt to escape them, and was chased for years, all the while Hadrien de Sarkozy proclaiming himself Archon of the House in order to keep it from dissipating into history once again.

 

Lorethos finally managed to hunt down the leader of the assassin group, a man named Jack Glacieum, and kill him. Upon his death, Lorethos returned to Oren and married a woman of noble birth, Desiderata, and together they began procreating, finally the Basileus line once again continuing and ensuring it’s legacy.

 

Culture

 

Modern Basileus traditions and beliefs are directly derivative of ancient Rhenyar values. Honor, practicality, ambition, strength, patience, loyalty and obedience are valued above all else in both genders. As a patriarchal society women are viewed as servants to men, though not without capacity for complex love. A husband is expected to defend the honor of wife and women in general. A female’s expectation to be submissive is not to be mistaken for an expectation to accept mistreatment.

 

Basileus’ who fail to embody any of these values are shunned thoroughly.

 

Blood Members

 

Lord Lorethos Basileus (HappyShackles)

(Titles Upon Death)

Archon of House Basileus, Consul to King Franz I,

Knight of the Pale Crescent, Baron of Sabrinsky

 

Ser Damien Basileus (LemonDropz)

Knight of the Ivory Crescent, Archon of House Basileus

Baron of Sabrinsky

 

Marcellus Basileus

Knight of the Iron Crescent

 

Balthazar VII Basileus (_Pok_)

Priest of the True Faith

 

Aria Basileus (LolitaDoll)

Vivian Basileus (MissPessimistic)

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Leonidas nods his head approvingly. 

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