The house of Est'iaran

[Lar'ial Est'iaran]

Brightening 1 of Cycle One
Ioannes to Imperos in the Season of Summer, of Era I of the Celestine Mandate (Current Pattern)
Era X Post Fractum in the Age of the Darkening, the Mageocracy of Julos the Mad
Paradigm: The Truce of Demios and the Merfolk


Although it was a small estate, it surely held it's own as far as beauty, or atleast it used to. It had been along time since the gardens had shined with beautiful flowers and plants. The estate had never really recovered after the many deaths that occured in the Est'iaran Family. Avr'ian Est'iaran, the Founding Matron Mother of House Est'iaran, had created a glorious house before she was brutally murdered in her sleep by an unknown assailant. Since that time, there has been a death in each generation of the Est'iaran Family. The plants are whithered and dead around the old eight room Est'iaran mansion. One might think at first glance that the mansion was deserted, but if you were to look very closely, you might see the shadow of the last remaining Est'iaran, Lar'ial Est'iaran, in the one of the second floor windows...

Lar'ial awoke from her sound slumber earlier than usual that day. She really didn't realize that today was her sixtieth pattern of life, because she had been under the wings of her parents. As she got up and dressed, she slowly moved down stairs, and found something that would scar her for the rest of her life. There was her father face down in a pool full of his own blood, and her mother beatten and stabbed to death in a chair close to her father.

"Ma'ma, Pa'pa!" she screamed at the top of her lungs as she fell down on her knees and cried. She could not believe that her parents were gone just like that, in an instant her whole life was changed. She reached over to touch her father's outstreached hand, and as she took hold of it, she felt the coldness of his hand. She knew that she would never feel the warm touch of her father 's hand. You are all alone now, what are you going to do little girl? Your parents are gone now, you are the Matron of the House Est'iaran. Is this not a sign, a test of your resolve?

"Yes, I am the Matron of House Est'iaran now. I shall show my pride now more than ever." she screamed at the top of her lungs. She slowly pulled her robe over her dress, and left the house...