Kingdom of Westphalia: Principality of Ruritania

'''Kingdom of Westphalia; Principality of Ruritania'''

Noble Families:

House Stonecypher – Lords of the secrets of the mountains. Dwarf-friends. Tall, extremely adept climbers and mountaineers. Alpine mountain and forest holdings. RICH mines of precious metals and gems at Karwen Dell, Cantabria, and Mont Blanc.

Lord-Captain Hans-Christian Stonecypher, The Duke of Carpathia – Hippogriff mount – Chevalier - A fine and lordly soldier, brave and true and daring.

 

House Gatewood – Lords of the secrets of the Wood and Dell. Fey-blooded. Just leaders with a love of freedom. Vast forest holdings such as The Tulgeywood. Rich farmstead and field holdings with livestock and fine horses. Masters of the fields of Velvet Green.

Sebastian Gatewood, Earl of Westfell – Slender, handsome, wise. Commands a cadre of elite rangers known as ‘Huntsmen’, finely equipped and caparisoned is masterwork gear. Who count the fairies as their allies. A noble steward of his lands.

 

House Bramblethorne – Halfling Lords of the Hills and Vales and masters of the secrets of the barrows and cairns and menhirs. Long-lined descendants of the hill peoples. Said to hold lore stretching all the way back to the first men who raised the Wight-haunted barrows in the downs. Famed for their familial halls, the palatial '''Bramblethorne Hall, and the two public lodges Greater and Lesser Oxenhall'''. They are true-hearted, vigilant, staid and sensible, lovers of tradition and the hearth.

Lord Baron Alastair Fothergill Bramblethorne – A personable, comfortable, approachable aristocrat with a stylish way and fashion about himself. A keen steward of his ancestral lands, prosperous and fair-dealing. Well respected among the commoners, merchant class and gentry.

 

House Ravenlocke – Lords of the crofts and glens and masters of the secrets of Ruritania. Regal, high-born gentry with a fine ancestral name that stretches back to the founding of Westphalia. Their ancestral holdings were granted as the Principality of Ruritania marking their high esteem in the regard of the royal family. And ever since they have lived up to the noblesse oblige of their entitlement. Their farms feed the cities of Westphalia.

Prince Menion Ravenlocke, the Grand Prince of Ruritania and ArchDuke of Westphalia – Called Menion the Fair or Menion the Just throughout Westphalia or Good King Ravenlocke by Ruritanians. As regal and noble a sovereign as legend ever told of. Generous and kind. Fair and just. True hearted and gracious. He rules with dignity, honor and chivalrous compassion.

As a man he is moral and seemly, decorous and proper, prudent and virtuous. With fine, handsome aristocratic features and dignified, refined, and stately composure.