The ST's Musings

The Great Houses of the Scarlet Dynasty are members of the Empresses extended family, heirs to the greatest empire creation has ever seen. Dynasts form the aristocracy of the Realm, born to lives of unimaginable privilege and partaking in the spoils of empire. Though possessing wealth and power beyond mortal ken the scions of the Dynasty are possessed with a powerful ambition that sees them strive to ever greater heights, in service of Self and Empress. This large and unruly family has produced 23 lineages that have deserved the moniker of Great House, 11 of which survive to the present day. House Ledaal Knowledge is Power This House is a House of Sorcerers and Scholars without equal, as they posses both the will and power to slake their arcane desires. The scions of this House prefer death to boredom and can often be found on expeditions in the Threshold, uncovering first age artifacts and exploring ruins on the edges of the world. The House possesses a small number of satrapies f...

"He who drinks oceans of blood shall never stop bleeding from the mouth" From fires of chaos order was forged, this is the eternal lesson of Creation. The Primordials forged order from chaos in the Wyld when the world was given shape and substance. The Gods & Exalted brought order when the Primordials grew decadent and oppressive. The Shogunate brought order to Creation in the Great Uprising, when the Anathema who grew drunk on the stolen powers of the Sun and Moon were cast down and imprisoned for all time. Greatest of them all however was the Scarlet Empress. She, who a midst the twin disasters of the Great Contagion and the Balorian Crusade, mastered the ancient weapons of Creation and expelled the armies of Chaos and Death.  From the bones and ashes of the old a new order, the Realm, was wrought. A great Empire that lies at the beating heart of Creation. Upon her ascension she commanded all to serve her ambitions. Cities were rebuilt, harbors dredged, great a...