Rae ArdGaoth
Explorer
The guide thinks as he walks you through the labyrinth, checking copper name plates on the shelves as you go. "Warbrayvia? I cannot say that I have. But there are many tiny fiefdoms and counties all throughout the world. Enworld is massive, if the adventurers and geographers can be believed, 25,000 miles in diameter. Even if Warbrayvia was in the Orussian region, I might not have heard of it. And there are thousands of square miles that I am not familiar with. Why do you ask?"
The history section reveals some useful information. The four families you research all experienced simultaneous good fortune around 200 years ago, half a century before the Catastrophe. Their holdings increased, tenfold in the most extreme case of the Celebrindel family, and then, 150 years ago, the houses fell into disarray. The reasons presented vary, but one consistent fact among the houses is that the leadership and many of the promising young nobles suddenly disappeared without a trace. Though the remainders of the families inherited vast fortunes, they were unable to maintain them and they quickly squandered the money, so much so that the Duermek clan fell apart completely.
The Barnor remnants also squandered the inheritance, but they ran out of cash before they liquidated their property assets. As such, they were involved in several political marriages with dowries involving huge swaths of land on what is now the crater bottom. Some of the human noble families with Barnor blood are Reston, Turket, Hendall, and Killeen.
Of particular note, the Dunn family did not fare quite so poorly. They now own property on many of the lower levels of the crater walls (which your escort informs you are generally very low value, compared to the higher levels and the crater bottom). Their holdings as of last year include the entire 11th level and about half of the 40th.
Your escort is adept at finding information in the history section. It takes only two hours to find all that, bringing your total up to five hours straight in the library. Hunger begins to gnaw at your bellies.
The history section reveals some useful information. The four families you research all experienced simultaneous good fortune around 200 years ago, half a century before the Catastrophe. Their holdings increased, tenfold in the most extreme case of the Celebrindel family, and then, 150 years ago, the houses fell into disarray. The reasons presented vary, but one consistent fact among the houses is that the leadership and many of the promising young nobles suddenly disappeared without a trace. Though the remainders of the families inherited vast fortunes, they were unable to maintain them and they quickly squandered the money, so much so that the Duermek clan fell apart completely.
The Barnor remnants also squandered the inheritance, but they ran out of cash before they liquidated their property assets. As such, they were involved in several political marriages with dowries involving huge swaths of land on what is now the crater bottom. Some of the human noble families with Barnor blood are Reston, Turket, Hendall, and Killeen.
Of particular note, the Dunn family did not fare quite so poorly. They now own property on many of the lower levels of the crater walls (which your escort informs you are generally very low value, compared to the higher levels and the crater bottom). Their holdings as of last year include the entire 11th level and about half of the 40th.
Your escort is adept at finding information in the history section. It takes only two hours to find all that, bringing your total up to five hours straight in the library. Hunger begins to gnaw at your bellies.