House Ruthern

[SirSnowMan 318]

   

 

 

The Ruthern Family:

 

Lord of House: Ailred Ruthern (SirSnowMan)

 

Living Members:  

 

Lyov Ruthern/Eldest son to Ailred Ruthern-[TaylorStriffe]

 

Iosif Ruthern/Barrow ((Bastered)) son to Ailred Ruthern-[snowshovel]

 

Gaut Ruthern/Cousin of Ailred Ruthren - [AiiM]

 

Viktor Ruthern/Cousin of Ailred Ruthern - [Xiryks]

 

Deceased Members:

Ruther Barrow

Boris Ruthern

 

 

House Customs:

The most notable feature about House Ruthern, is what they do to their enemies after battles. The house prides itself on its acquisition of bone trophies; ripping spines, teeth and skulls to form jewelry and weaponry. Rutherns are not permitted jewelry made out of other materials aside from bone. Rutherns are brutal folk; they share Raevir traits of cold nature and pessimistic outlook on life, only magnified by rampant cruelty and a penchant for war.

 

The ways of normal life customs are extremely similar to the Raevirs in Kralta and House Carrion, both following Godanistan (the Raevan term for Creator) and cultural ideals. However, most strelesy and levysmen sworn to House Ruthern have a much more violent and independent attitude toward life based on their raiding culture and sea-based lifestyle. Some may even earn the right to command their own ship. They are intense, violent, and single-minded; rarely holding time for long-bearing politics and prefer to let their hammers do the talking. House leaders traditionally only use blunt weaponry in honor of Lord Ruther.

 

 

House History:

The House Ruthern is a lesser house branched off House Carrion,  descending from the line of Ruther, a bastard “Barrow” of House Carrion. As typical, the name Barrow was given to Carrion bastardy born out of wedlock with a lowborn; however, Ruther was born in a stone castle amongst servant girls and castellans. His mother was a serving girl of the court, who managed to take a bastard with the Lord of House Carrion 3 generations prior, Lord Borislav. The boy Ruther was ill-tempered and cruel; he had always been spiteful of those around him and took pleasure in torture and pain. Ruther had an intense phobia of blood, however, and would revel in forms of blunt trauma and torture to satiate his bloodlust, taking a hammer for training and preferring naval warfare of cold blue seas blotting out the blood of war. He would deface his enemies with wrathful impunity by ripping their teeth, spines, and bones, sporting them as war-trophies and forbidding all of his men to sport gold jewelry and instead bones of fallen foes, a brutal tactic which follows the house to this day.

 

When time had erupted for war, the courtiers in service had pleaded with Lord Borislav to send his boy off to die in foreign soils, so the ill-mannered bastard would be rid of in a fashion clean of kinslaying. Ruther was given sixteen longships and a levy mixed with convicts and conscripts. Despite all odds, the raiding party had infiltrated the rival Kosanov stronghold and decimated the populace, a crucial turning point of the Raevir civil conflict. However, when the Carrion envoy arrived to claim the hold, Ruther garrisoned it and demanded legitimization for his valor in war. Borislav and Ruther compromised with the handover of a noble estate, for no vassal around Borislav would have wanted the wicked Ruther a legitimate Carrion to potentially inherit his lands, yet the stronghold was necessary in concluding the campaign, and an amphibious assault was out of the question. Ruther was granted a barren beach line for his warband out of appeasement to the rival lords of Raev, yet found himself little time to scheme further and advance himself with the abandoning of Aegis. Ruther was forced to abandon his lands. In a fit of mixed fury and insanity, he navigated his ships away from the Raevir fleet, taking off to harry various island civilizations between Asulon and Anthos. He took thralls and wives under his own blade, and was succeeded by only one trueborn son.

 

Ruther’s son Boris was the next of line. He took the sigil of the hammerhead shark for the creature’s savagery, hammer-head, and affinity for water, and had the bones of Ruther along with those he pillaged forged among steel to forge the ancestral hammer of the House. Boris continued his fathers legacy of establishing violent campaigns against various trade archipelagos, and bore two sons, Ivan, named after the famed father of the Raevir race, and Ailred.

 

Boris, however, did not have the unrelenting tenacity and violence as his father. He faltered and had his second son, Ailred, kidnapped at a young age by rival slavers. Ailred was lost to the family, being raised as a Dreadfort child soldier after being sold to Augustus Blackmont in Anthos. Boris eventually contracted scurvy, dying and sending the “Fleet of Bones” scattered throughout the wild seas.

 

Ivan had witnessed his father’s slow health decline, and took what little strelesy conscripts and thralls to head for Anthos. He had figured the continent settled and ripe for war, despite his weakened fleet. Upon arriving to the Crimson Isles, he reunited with his brother, Flay bannermen Ailred, who was soon nicknamed “Red Ruth” for his flayish brutality.

 

 

 

OOC:

This House will be the new occupants of the region ‘Alturia’ in the island of Valence. It will still have most of the players that used to be House Flay. The change is that the island and mainland is part of the Kingdom of Oren, and House Ruthern as a vassal of House Carrion.

 

Sea-Strelts:

http://www.lordofthecraft.net/topic/96626-the-sea-srelts-of-house-ruthern/#entry873762

 

House Member Skin:

((Remove Head))

[3andD 1722]

(( This house follows the Kingdom of Savoie's policies, keeping house numbers low and bannermen high. Watch out, this'll be a notorious house! ))

[SirSnowMan 318]

OOC:

 

After talking to Cracker and other players, me and the current House Ruthern members will be making this house more active. Most of us had other stuff we had to take care of, but now that it is over we look forward to continueing a new era for this House.

[empirerebel 305]

*The newly appointed Captain of House Ruthern gathers the Sea-Strelts and readies them for war*

[Komodo 140]

((By the way guys, bastards go by "Barrow" in most cases in Raevir lore. Fun fact. Fun.))

[Major Dom 1297]

((By the way guys, bastards go by "Barrow" in most cases in Raevir lore. Fun fact. Fun.))

 

((Das me yo.))

[Komodo 140]

((Who let Aiim in here. I challenge him for his spot.))

[Sky 0]

((Viktor Ruthern is back, baby))

[SirSnowMan 318]

OOC Update:

 

Made a sigl in PhotoShop. Took me around 10 min, so if anyone out there thinks they can improve it, go for it.

[Sky 0]

Making good look of Ruthern house, da.

[SirSnowMan 318]

-House Colors Stamp Made-

[Birdwhisperer 1174]

Moved to the Great Library. It shall be sorted into appropriate category shortly.