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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 816503" data-attributes="member: 8704">Noble Family: House HaljanPastWhen the Haljan family first came to Mor’s End they were already a noble family. They quickly established themselves in the upper crust of the city and went about building influence in city politics. They established themselves in the trade caravan business and prospered for several generations. Over the years they made many powerful allies and enemies in Mor’s End and became deeply entrenched in its politics. All of this ended nearly 30 years ago when disaster struck house Haljan. As competition got more intense the Haljans kept taking risk with the caravan business in order stay one step ahead but this finally caught up with them. Thelmore Haljan the head of the house took a major risk in sending a heavily laden caravan down the trade route to the coast, he had invested heavily in the caravan and was expecting the huge sell off to keep House Haljan well off for many years to come, but disaster struck as a huge raiding party of Orcs fell on the caravan and utterly destroyed it. The caravan was being led by Thelmore’s brother who had taken his family with him on the trip, they were never seen again. Thelmore knew he had been sold out by one of his political enemies but could not prove who did it. With the last bit of money he could scrape together he led a rescue party into the swamp to try and find his brother’s family, no trace was ever found and Thelmore came down with a horrible fever shortly after he returned and died a broken man less than a month later, his wife died within 3 months of his death many say from a broken heart but more likely it was from the same swamp disease that killed Thelmore. This left his son Thomas as the head of the now destitute household. Thomas liquidated all Haljan holdings in order to get enough money to send his two sisters off to distant relatives in another town and took a post as a common soldier in the military. PresentThomas Haljan worked hard to gain promotions and rank in the military and eventually became a member of the elite guard. While this didn’t pay well it did give Thomas enough political clout to find a lesser noble’s second son and a rich merchant’s grandson with whom he helped to arrange marriages for his sisters with. With his family back in town and the name Haljan once again established with some worth Thomas took the post of captain of the guard and worked to become the next General of the Legion of Mor’s End. When the old General was pushed out of office Thomas thought his time had come but he lost out to Sebastiano Palmora a man he had served with for many years and the son of a prominent Noble house. Thomas has not taken this setback well has become bitter towards Palmora.FutureThe future of house Haljan is still in question, Thomas Haljan is not a young man and has not married or produced an heir. He has gained the interest of several rich merchants and guildmembers who view marrying one of their daughters to him as a fast way to nobility for their family but Thomas realizes that once a heir is produced he will no longer have any leverage with the Merchants and lesser nobles of Mor’s End. The current heir to the title of House Haljan is the son of Thomas’s youngest sister (the older sister only has daughters) who is married to a young wealthy merchant who recently took charge of his families business after his grandfather died. This merchant would like nothing more than to see Thomas never produce an heir as his son would then become Lord Haljan and he would gain much political clout and would be able to control a noble house (in his son’s name).HoldingsHouse Haljan has no major holdings at present, their future holdings and prosperity seem to be tied to which greedy merchant will be able to control the name through a young Haljan heir. The only thing of value left to the family is the Nobility attached to the name.</blockquote>

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