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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 535005" data-attributes="member: 8530">City of BrondaniThe City of BrondaniOn the southern coastline, approximately 900 miles southwest of the Silvanost Kingdom, is the city of Brondani.   A human family named Brondani founded the city over 4,500 years ago.    During the first two millennia they turned this city into a thriving port city.  Unlike other cities, this one was always kept clean and respectable, and became a magnet for other noble families to establish their households in.Approximately 2,500 years ago Lyretra of Silvanost, daughter of the murdered bard Llyr, could no longer tolerate the rulings of their queen, and sought a new home for her elvan noble family.  The city of Brondani had always welcomed the traveling bards from the family Llyr, and Lyretra met with the head of the Brondani family to negotiate arrangements to move there.   The Brondani family owned a vast tract of undeveloped land immediately north of the city, and offered to sell it to the elves.   Lyretra, and ten other noble families of Silvanost pooled their monies together for this purchase, then moved to their new home.A few decades later another elvan household also left Silvanost for Brondani, acquiring some adjacent land from the Brondani family.   This now established an equal number of noble houses of both human and elves, a dozen of each.   Each race's twelve houses were ranked by their level of prominence, and it was declared that both #1 ranked houses of each race was considered equal, outranking the #2 house of either race, and so on down to #12.   This ranking system has remained in effect ever since.Like the people of Silvanost, the Brondani elves are a polygamous society.  Unlike Silvanost, all of their unions are recognized as true marriages.  The Brondani elves 'encourage' the first marriage to be between full-blooded elves that descend from those of Silvanost, however this is not absolutely required.   Like the noble households, each spouse is referred to by a rank, this ranking being chronological numerical order.  Children are also ranked by birth order and gender.  Typical all first and second sons and daughters are encouraged to also bond with full-blooded elves.   Beyond these initial unions, the race of the spouse is less important, and unions often occur between the human and elvan noble houses of the city.   These human households have also adopted the practice of polygamy.  Each of the 24 houses in the city has its own specialization of skills. The Llyr family was the #1 ranked elvan household, specializing in both bard and mage abilities.   A little over 1,200 years ago the long lost Ring of Llyr materialized again, brought to Brondani by a mysterious elf who claimed to be an ascended hero.  Several of Lyretra's apprentices became entranced and enraptured by this individual, who then involved them in a plot that involved the Kingdoms of Mengale and Silvanost.   When the situation was over there had been elvan deaths at both Kingdoms, with the blame placed upon those of Brondani.   While Lyretra herself was innocent, she was held responsible for the actions of her apprentices, and the Llyr family was stripped of their top ranking, being reduced to the #12 elvan household of the city.   From that point forward magic-users have been held in very low status everywhere within the city, and the few that remain in the city are not allowed to congregate.  Llyretra died around 450 years ago, and her eldest son Gredawal is now the leader of the Llyr family.   Over the centuries they have been working their way back up the rankings, and are now considered the #6 ranked family in the city.   The rankings of the Brondani Families, and their specialties, are as follows:Elvan Noble Houses1. Taraloen - Clerics of Correllon Larethian and linguists2. Sindafalathion - Fighters and equestrians3. Enmelloniel - Artists, weavers and knowledge of religions4. Novardaian - Fighters, equestrians, and master sword-fighters 5. Vanadhol - Engineering skills  6. Llyr - Bards and historians7. Megilial - Armorers and metalworkers8. Angachilion - Jewelry, gem cutting and glass blowing9. Maegolkarien - Rangers, druids and astrology 10. Engwahilien - Fighters, sword and weapon makers11. Annonamon - Herbalists and alchemy12. Luinecoire -  Dancers, vintners and brewersHuman Noble Houses1. Brondani - Leadership skills, heraldry, ship captains2. Silverspring - Dancers and artists3. Waters - Enginnering and shipbuilding skills 4. Mills - Agricultural, animal handling and druid skills 5. Bowman - Archers, rangers and woodworkers6. Newquest - Paladins, fighters, equestrian and charioteering skills 7. Chamberlin - Mapmakers, navigators and shipmasters 8. Richman - Financial managers and priests9. Zeckerman - Gaming, hunting and rogue skills10.  Mayville - Armor and leatherworking skills 11.  Holmes - Woodworking and wooden weapon making skills 12.  Dennett - Historians, linguistic and rogue skills</blockquote>

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