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To the north of Lorine, the winds grow cold and the earth hardens into soil akin to stone, yet House Crawe shines as a pinnacle of wealth. The Crawes have ruled the different lordlings of Midland for centuries, keeping power through wealth, rather than brute force. Founded by Scallion Crawe, a merchant from the Elnish lands with barely a copper to his name, they would rise to the rank of the most powerful nations in less than a lifetime.

Scallion came north with a handful of iceberries, a species of grape nearly immune to cold, with little need for water or rich soil. Scallion cast the grape seeds across the fields of Midland, and by the summer harvest of the next year, was the wealthiest man in Midland. His wineries appeared throughout the fledgling nation. Crawe was no kind soul, he was rumored to have burned at least five competing vineyards and alehouses, all in the name of monopoly.By the end of his life, he had built a city of marble, named Prav, and had amassed one of the largest fortunes the world had ever seen.

His descendant Malcom now rules Midland as Vine King, guarded by fill regiments of men bearing the golden vine upon their breastplate. Wealth flows into Prav from the country, though the sweet nectar of iceberry wine has weakened the industrial nature of house Crawe, who have not worked the land like their ancestors for generations.

House Arrington is the second most powerful house in Lorine, behind only the crown. From the lakeside city of Lahyrst, they rule with sublime wealth and power, with a rigorously trained professional army, and a network of spies and agents who live to serve the Red Fox of Lahyrst.

Arrington took the symbol of the red fox to show their cunning and refined nature, with bright red to show their strength, and blue to show the calm of their rule. William Arrington is the current chancellor to King Oswine, and the patriarch of the Arrington family. Known as a reserved man, his intentions are not revealed, until he is ready to reveal them.

One of the oldest, if not wealthy, houses in Lorine, House Thorne has lived in their ancestral house of Orford since the time of King Orfric. Edric, first of the blood of Thorne, was a common sellsword, contracted by the king to rescue his youngest daughter from the lair of a foul cyclops. Edric did so, slaying the behemoth with a single arrow in the eye, thereafter known as Edric the Marksman. Edric was rewarded with the village of Orford, and the hand of the princess in marriage, forever binding House Thorne and the crown. For their sigil, they took the noble visage of the Griffin, an animal which has resided in their forests for as long as any can remember. Thorne has never been a significant player in the politics of Lorine, their liege lords preferring to go questings in far distant lands or work the fields alongside their landbound peasantry.

Thorne has never been a significant player in the politics of Lorine, their liege lords preferring to go questings in far distant lands or work the fields alongside their landbound peasantry. Most notably amongst these heroes was Albert, who fought in the Green Mountains aiding the Dweor, or dwarves who raise flocks of white sheep along the mountain range.

The current lord, Cedric, son of Albert, and the great-grandson of Edric, rules Orford in the time of King Oswine. He is a young man, educated at court, trained in warfare, bearing the blood of an ancient household which the world thought extinct.