IMPERIAL FAMILY | HOUSE OF HOREN

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HEREAS the realms of Man have been afflicted so pervasively by divisions of Princes, scattered by the vanity of their own counsels and sins of pride. The tribulations of a scattered humanity have made palpable the burden of discord and strife; that the fabric of the earthly kingdoms now lay desolate beneath fractured rule. For its Princes neglect the company of the Divine; wherefore the Spirit of GOD is rejected from their halls, and His light revoked from their Churches, to cast darkness upon the Princes blind and their flock. It is in blindness that Man will stumble, their hearts stricken by evils otherwise banished beneath the mandate of the Lord; yet, as well, in blindness when those most worthy ascend beyond the veils of darkness, His light borne upon their brow and returning unto the realms of Man a divine path. 

 

For it is in the unity of man that they may congregate upon this divine path; that they may find amongst their Earthly Kingdoms one who rises as shepherd amongst his flock. Yet, in as much as the one is their shepherd, so too do they come as its wolves – burdened by the sword to banish the detestable evils which threaten the sons of man. Amongst those innumerable houses of Humanity, only one has obtained so successfully and pervasively the legitimacy to rise amongst the princes of Canondom, ordained in a multitude of successions beneath the Church of the Canon.

 

 

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BY THE DECREE of His Imperial Majesty, Godfrey II of the House of Horen, of the Holy Orenian Empire, all those bearing the Horenic Lineage should absolve themselves of the Horen name. That the War of the Two Emperors had descended upon the house in-fighting ill-befitting the house of the Dragon; that the blood is dirtied by debased ambitions and false-claims of purity; that the death of Horen was much desired by its Patriarchs, than to suffer upon the usurping of lesser-bloods which assumes too much of their lineage. As penned and published by Her Imperial Majesty Adeline Margaret Horen, under the decree of the Holy Orenian Emperor Godfrey II Horen and the  Prince of Alstion John Alexander Horen; so did the blood of the dragon fracture: 

 

CASCADIA | ALSTION | VILAC  | HELANE | TIBER

 

CASCADIA | The House of Cascadia derives itself from the blood of Romulus Horen, father to Godfrey II. Attributed the last of the house’s imperial dignities, their descendants were the sole inheritors to the privileges of Imperial stylings. Yet, following the turbulent succession of Emperor’s younger brother, Achilius Cascadia, the newly crowned Emperor’s decision of abdication sowed the seeds unto the house’s fall into obscurity. No acknowledged descendant or claimant Cascadia survives within the present-age, the last of its descendants having relinquished the name. 

 

ALSTION | The House of Alstion, derived from their original progenitor John I, retained its ties as once-emperors through the continuance of the nominal titles of Princes of Alstion and Dukes of Furnestock. The present-age has seen them ascend unto the titles of Kings and Queens through the Apostolic Kingdom of Aaun, though further adversity then relegated them back unto the ranks of Princes in the Dukedom of Alba. 

 

HELANE | The House of Helane, derived from the Empress Helane Horen, wife of Augustus I Horen, for her contribution unto the architectural marvels of the empire's past. The name was a short-lived glory, and its descendents found themselves in matrimony with the Sarkozic name upon the creation of a new imperial line: Novellen. 

 

TIBER | The House of Tiber stems from the blood of Titus Tiber, who was the son of Vitus Horen, an Imperial Prince of Renatus. Though marvelled with no titles of honorifics, the House of Tiber remained a true and virtuous cadet-house of Horen, and thus legitimised its branch as Horen’s tribe. Nevertheless, the house fell into obscurity upon the execution of Titus Tiber, then-patriarch of the house, at the hands of the Novellen’s due to pertaining links to the Pertinaxi after the conclusion of the War of the Two Emperors. 

 

VILAC | The House of Vilac descends from Martius "The Corsair Prince" Horen, the second-born son of Antonius Horen and twin brother of Emperor Augustus Horen. A house rooted in mystery and having been separated from the descendants for a hundred years while they ruled parts of Aeldin, they would resurface during the Adrian Rebellion, after which they were a part of the creation of Veletz, serving as princes within the court. They can be found in the present day within the courts of Burgundy and Alba;  their patriarchs, the twins Charles of Verbant and Lawrence of Verbant take residence in castle Vardem, not far from the city of Elizabeth in Alba.

 

 

HARKEN THEN, those who would claim the Dragon’s blood, that the lineage is a burden of immeasurable weight. Perceive that it was with pious humility that the Patriarchs of Horen understood this true – that the house existed no longer as an adequate master of man. Therefore, incline to listen to the annals of history that the blood of Exalted Godfrey exists to govern the unity of man, or naught at all. So it is understood that its return must, consequently, answer this demand and ambition.

 

 

 

MARK again the divisions of mortal princes which burdened the flock of his Holy Lord; behold their failures, who could not abide in obedience to His divine will without argument. For strife is a tool of the Deceiver, and the discord of scattered voices serves as pestilence to a sacred garden.  Attend, then, to what We have decreed for this failure: that the light of God must be returned and beheld in unity, to congregate in one shared faith and fealty.  In this, be it understood: know worship only to one Lord, eternal and omnipotent God; know faith only through His one voice and home, The Pontiff of the Church of Canon; and know obeisance only through His one mortal blade, the Imperator of Man. 

 

Wherefore should the name of Horen now be invoked; their legacy revisited, and their purpose envisioned? Abide attention now, to the first of his mortal blades: Exalted Godfrey I Horen, Holy Orenian emperor. As when he did gird his son with the name Horen, so did he bequeath upon him and his son’s son thereafter the mantle of rule; that it instructs the weak to fail and virtuous to glory, that it exists to govern the unity of man. Humanity stands united – yet as a home with many halls and none within it as Master of the household.  Therefore: harken those who would claim the Dragon’s blood, by this decree, we have commanded, affirmed and demanded conclave amongst his line. Look amongst your kin, and deliberate which amongst you have risen to answer this claim.

 

THE CROWN OF EXALTED GODFREY I

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF, Harrentzedek I bespoke a vision pertaining from the Aengul of Justice, the weight and animosity of the greater-wealth of Owyn’s sword, as it spilled upon the blood of Harren, and sapped the nectar of a burning pyre, and so in his mind, he saw the banners of Men united, and the Crown of the Exalted Godfrey, wherein he spoke of a rise–not to speak of the king-of-kings, nor to speak of the emperor-of-men, but on the sole sovereign rule of the Lord GOD, a Kingdom of GOD, an Empire of GOD, and so in his dreams, the Pontiff ruminated, and when he awoken, his lap burned heavy by the mantle of Godfrey’s Crown–he knew therein to call it the Holy Imperium, and that the Crown shall lay mantled by His authority upon the Holy Imperator. 

 

Virtuous is he who knows fidelity, he that is ablaze in the flames of piety beneath the yoke of Holy God. Virtuous is he who knows grace, he who would befriend mercy when vengeance is his due; who tempers wrath with grace, and strength in restraint. Virtuous is Tiberias I van Aert, Emperor of Man, Holy Imperator, King of Burgundy, Seventis, Salvus, Renatus & Oren, Patriarch dynast of Pertinax. 

 

Blood of horen, united humanity under one banner and peace. Divine mandate with the ascent of the church and divine blessing, tiberias I van aert shall assume the imperial seat of man and with it restore the traditional ruling seat of man:

 

LET IT BE KNOWN, on this day, the twentieth of Sun’s Smile, in the year of our Lord two-thousand and thirty, that all in the realm of man shall rejoice for humanity, once scattered, is now unified through the blood of Horen renewed, under the banner of Tiberias I. With the ascent of the Holy Mother Church as instructed by the Divine Mandate bestowed upon him and presented to the High Pontiff, Tiberias I shall henceforth no longer be styled of van Aert but shall assume the imperial mantle by which all rightful emperors of past ruled. Thus shall he restore the Imperial House of Man to its rightful seat:

 

 

 

HORENVS : VINCIT | HORENVS : REIGNAT | HORENVS : IMPERIATI

O IT IS RECALLED, that the House of Horen assumes its descent from Exalted Godfrey I Horen, the first Holy Orenian Emperor and Exalted Prophet of man. And so it is recalled, as well, the unification of the realms of man beneath his campaign into the Holy Orenian Empire and the subsequent privilege of Emperors bestowed upon the line of Horen, then bequeathed the moniker the Blood of the Dragon. And where-ever the sons of man may stand, in the multitude of banners which man may presume to raise, they should be compelled to acknowledge the Divine Mandate of imperial rule which has been afforded successively to the House of Horen, lest they violate with impunity the ordination of many Holy Pontiffs before them. 

 

THE EMPERORS OF HOUSE HOREN

 

First Empire of Man 1379 - 1420

𝕀 | PROPHET Godfrey I Horen, Holy Orenian Emperor 

𝕀𝕀 | Horen ‘the Black’ I Horen, Holy Orenian Emperor 

𝕀𝕀𝕀 | BL. William I Horen, Holy Orenian Emperor

Fifth Empire of Man 1526 - 1595

𝕀𝕍 | John I Horen, Holy Orenian Emperor 

𝕍 | BL. John II Horen, Holy Orenian Emperor

𝕍𝕀 | John III Horen, Holy Orenian Emperor

𝕍𝕀𝕀 | John IV Horen, Holy Orenian Emperor 

𝕍𝕀𝕀𝕀 | Robert II Horen, Holy Orenian Emperor 

𝕀𝕏 | Philip I Horen, Holy Orenian Emperor 

Sixth Empire of Man 1614 - 1638

𝕏 | John V Horen, Holy Orenian Emperor

𝕏𝕀 | Peter II Horen, Holy Orenian Emperor

𝕏𝕀𝕀 | John VI Horen, Holy Orenian Emperor

Seventh Empire of Man 1678 - 1721

𝕏𝕀𝕀𝕀 | Hadrian ‘Aurelius’ I Horen, Emperor of Man

𝕏𝕍𝕀 | Augustus I Horen, Emperor of Man

𝕏𝕍𝕀𝕀 | Antonius I Horen, Emperor of Man

House of Horen Dissolved 1721

𝕏𝕍𝕀𝕀𝕀 | Godfrey II Horen, Emperor of Man, Emperor of Renatus, Holy Orenian Emperor 

Ninth Empire of Man, House of Horen Restored 2030

CURRENT | Tiberias I Horen, Emperor of Man, Holy Imperator 

 

 

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H V M A N I T A S    I N V I C T A

 

 

[The King Of The Moon 7016]

"The 'Age of Dragons' is finally upon us. Yet our saviour is no nephilim... He is an emperor."

An ancient traitor-Ashford smiled weakly, four centuries on from the fall of his home city; the greatest capital Man had ever known.

"May GOD have mercy on us all."  

[Axelu 4333]

"The blood of the dragon remains true, and potent," remarked Cecily to her husband, Edward, riddled still by tremors after the August presentation at the last Burgundian Court, "but now, it has found its arbiter in Tiberias I. Domine, salutem facemus Imperator." The matriarch of the Johannians submitted completely, before her liege, The Emperor of Man. 

[annanicole__ 2802]

 

Lorelei Mairi Alstion-Enswerp knelt quietly in the dim chapel, her hands trembling slightly as she lit each candle with care. The soft glow flickered against the stained-glass windows, casting shards of crimson and gold across her pale face. Her voice barely rose above a whisper. “God save us all,” she murmured, her gaze fixed on the altar as if willing heaven to hear.

[wowj 9747]

"Tiberias is NOT a Horen, he's like a Van Aert, or whatever, I don't know!" Said Anton Brae (Who had no relation to the actual Brae lineage)

[Fishy 2709]

"It is the Tenth Empire, you dolts." Kvetches a red-maned historian, setting quill to parchment on a new chronicle to inaugurate the new Imperium.

[3andD 1722]

 

 

   For the longest time, the watchman stood staring out into echoes before him. For a time, it felt like he could keep his eyes open, but eventually he felt the weight of the bags and soon enough his eyes shuttered closed, in this brief respite the watchman saw something he didn’t understand; One life, fully lived, shown in brief moments. He reached out, as if to grasp at something and he felt a tug from the other side.

 

 

            

 

 

   Two boys both blackened of hair chase each other through the halls, their screams of joy echoing through the palace. The older boy quickly catches up, “I told you I was faster than you!” he says, going into a nearby cabinet and tossing two toy swords on the ground. “Let's see if you’ve learned anything from that old Mage!"

 

   Quickly slashes become bashes, and the older brother knocks the smaller one to the ground with a fierce trash, the child falls to the ground as if the wind and dignity was knocked from the boy's body. But instead of gloating, the older brother drops his sword and offers  his hand. The two boys look at one another for just a moment, nothing said yet they both understood for this last fleeting second that family was above everything.

 

   The two boys spent most of their life fighting anything they could whether it be each other or enemies, yet still both felt a sense of loyalty to the blood that coursed through their veins. Lessons taught from father to son and passed from generations, the real reason that House has stood the test of time. Family is all that mattered. Stronger together then split.

 

 

 

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Edited June 16, 2025 by 3andD