House Draymoor
Motto: "Blood Knows the Beast."
Sigil: A silver spear crossing a wolf's skull.
Vassals to: House Caerthall
Capital: Wolvenhome
Status after The Gilded Rebellion: Their brutal pragmatism once made them indispensable—until their rebellion left them outcasts.
Before their catastrophic alignment with rebel forces during The Gilded Rebellion, House Draymoor occupied a specialized niche within Eldoria's power structure as the kingdom's premier monster hunters. Their ancestral charge—protecting settled lands from supernatural threats—earned them unique privileges, including authority to operate across noble domain boundaries without seeking local permission and access to otherwise forbidden weapons specifically enchanted for combating non-human entities. The Draymoor Codex, their proprietary classification system for supernatural threats, became the standard reference incorporated into military and arcane educational curricula throughout Eldoria.
Their decision to join the rebellion surprised Noble families on both sides of the conflict. They had all assumed House Draymoor would stay neutral due to their historical disinterest in politics. Historical records indicate escalating conflict between House Draymoor and the crown regarding certain entities the family classified as dangerous predators while royal authorities insisted were potential diplomatic contacts. Conspiracy theorists suggest these disagreements specifically concerned draconic entities, though substantiating evidence remains classified under royal seal. Whatever the exact catalyst, House Draymoor committed their considerable martial resources to the rebel cause, deploying specialized hunters against loyalist forces with devastating effectiveness until conventional numerical superiority eventually overwhelmed their elite but limited forces.
Their ancestral stronghold, Wolvenhome, was not merely defeated during the war but deliberately desecrated by House Duskbane forces—its extensive archive of monster research confiscated, its trophy halls dismantled, and its specialized training grounds salted in symbolic negation of their purpose. The stripped hunting lodge was then repurposed as a command post for the very loyalist forces that crushed the family, a humiliation that continues to this day.
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