House of Wisteria

House of Wisteria
Geographic Information
Country	Maar Sul (Third Age) East Maar Sul (Fourth Age)
Base	Maar Sul City
Societal Information
Ancestral house	House of Draco
Title(s)	Chancellor Duke / Duchess Lord / Lady
Founder	Wister
Current head	Ademar Wisteria
Relationships
Race(s)	Humans
Ethnic group(s)	Maar Sulais
Allies	Grand Alliance (Third Age) True Aurelac (Fourth Age)
Enemies	Crimson Coalition
Historical Information
Age	First Age Second Age Third Age Fourth Age

The House of Wisteria is a Maar Sulais noble house with ties to both House of Aurelac and House of Draco. The Wisterias have long held high positions in the Maar Sulais court, often acting as Chancellors of the realm while advising the Aurelac kings on matters of state. Wister is the founding father of the house, and the present head of the family is Duke Ademar Wisteria although the true power behind the house is the duke's mother, Princess Keiwhin Wisteria.

History

House of Wisteria began with Draco, an Andain who had once challenged Kagetsu I for the mastery of the Andain prior to the War of the Andain. Wisteria became a cadet branch of the House of Draco as Draco's younger brother Wister fathered children, and generations passed.

Since the Explosion, the Wisterias had become the House of Aurelac's staunchest ally. There had been so much intermarriage between Aurelacs and Wisterias over the centuries that they had, by 1000 AE, come to be considered as cousins of Aurelacs. As a result of the close bond between the two houses, the heads of Wisteria were granted the rank of Duke and became Chancellors of Maar Sul, advising the Aurelac monarchs loyally on many stately matters. The bond was so strong that Gerard Aurelac appointed Ademar Wisteria as heir apparent after Leon Alcibiates in 1017 AE should anything happen to either him or Leon.

The Wisterias also remained close to the Dracos, and there's been intermarriage between the two houses as well, the most recent of which is the marriage of Ademar Wisteria and Siobrach Draco.

Family Tree

Wister

Several generations

Sen Wisteria

♀Keiwhin Wisteria (née Aurelac)

Ademar Wisteria

♀Siobrach Wisteria (née Draco)

Alistair Wisteria

♀Wife

♀Siobhan Wisteria

Irvine Wisteria

Relations

Aurelac

There was initially bad blood between the Wisterias and the House of Aurelac because Wister's brother Draco betrayed Kagetsu I during the Arawn Losstarot War, which brought shame upon Wister's descendants by proxy. Since the Explosion, however, the Wisterias have become the Aurelacs' staunchest ally.

There has been so much intermarriage between Aurelacs and Wisterias that the Wisterias have, within the past generation, come to be considered as cousins of Aurelacs. The Wisterias have also ended up becoming Chancellors of the the realm, thus essentially becoming the kings' right-hand men in political and military matters.

Draco

The houses of Wisteria and Draco are close because their respective founding fathers, Wister and Draco, were brothers. Because of this reason it's not uncommon to see intermarriage between the two houses, the most recent such example being the marriage of Ademar Wisteria and Siobrach Draco.

See also

• House of Aurelac
• House of Draco
• Maar Sul (nation)