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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rhialto" data-source="post: 2672942" data-attributes="member: 630">Among Majera Alsea's most fervant supporters are the Razirkas, a powerful family of "Oldblood" nobles.  Under the leadership of the family patriarch, Elsus Razirka, they had managed to gain rulership of five cities before the present war began--Razir (their home city), Kalavin, Morlene, Badag-Hai, and Hesselfin--through a combination of alliance, marriages, politics, and wars.  Elsus had distributed the rulership of these cities among his family--his eldest son Jelen had been made Lord of Kalavin, his second son Sorac was Marshal of Morlene, his daughter Erla was Lady of Badaghai, and his brother Noric was Thane of Hesselfin.  While Elsus held back when Valeris made his bid for the throne, weighing his options, when Majera declared her ambition, he rushed to support her, seeing her as a candidate capable of advancing the "Oldblood" cause--and the Razirka fortunes.Ironically, though they number among her strongest supporters, the relationship between Majera and the Razirkas is often difficult.  Elsus often worries that Majera support for a pure Alseana is TOO extreme, damaging her policies and efforts to win support--Majera on the other hand, usually sees Elsus and most of his family as venal, power-grubbing backstabbers whose commitment to the cause is less than total.  Still, in the end, they stay together because they both need each other, and because ultimately the Razirkas are as interested in seeing an Alseana free of "the impure" as Majera is--they are simply more willing to compromise and wait then her.  One other matter has been raising conflict between Majera and Elsus lately.  Elsus has been pressuring Majera to marry, to produce an heir--and also, been pressuring her to marry a Razirka.  Presently, he is pushing his youngest son, Farinus, while his brother Noric pushes his son, Belstarus.  However, Majera has no interest in marriage, not wanting to share her power, and no interest in either of them, seeing them with the same quiet disdain that colors her view of most of the Razirkas.  The only member of the family she holds any real fondness for is Erla, whose fervancy for the Oldblood cause rivals her own.  Indeed the two are constant companions, Erla often staying at Bandesh-Thar, and Majera often visiting Badag-Hai.  Some wags have even quietly suggested that Elsus is offering Majera the wrong Razirka, and that he'd be better off offering his daughter.  A few even note that Erla would probably eagerly accept such an arrangement--and Majera would probably eagerly take it.  Saying this in Elsus's presence is a good way to die horribly.  The fact that it is completely true, and he knows it, only adds to his bitterness.</blockquote>

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