House Venistasia is the bloodline of nobility which has been of relevance to Saumai since it's foundation.
The Crows in particular formed as it began to fall, beginning with Andrei Venistasia.
The Crows in particular formed as it began to fall, beginning with Andrei Venistasia.
The document was stamped with a wax seal that said воронастасия along the ring with a crow in the center, with the ворона above and стасия below.House Venistasia is the foremost family and house of Saumai, and has a long history of political power within it.
Allarah's eyes scanned left to right as she absorbed the fresh intrigue. While the gears in her head rolled over she stared at the stamp, at the pressed wax that had kept so well preserved for a hundred years under a thick coating of papers and books.
воронастасия, Verona Stasia. Allarah could not have been a more perfect candidate to read those words and understand their meaning. Verona, ворона, Russian for Crow. Stasia, стасия, as with Anastasia, princess of yore; stasia, with latin root, meaning standing or rising. She was face to face with the etymology of the family name Venistasia.
The Family of Rising Crows.
Revealed in SoS B1 C9 X3
[br]It had been a cold winter when Crow's father had taken him off into the woods to learn to hunt. It was a skill he had only use a handful of times since, but to this day he could remember how to draw a bow and fell a deer - if one could be found anymore.
"You are the seventh and final Crow," his father said as they cleaned the steaming carcass of the buck and rolled the hide to cure at home. "There were six before you, each with a deed to their name. The commander, Andrei, forger of the mask; the churchwright, Kohliya, savior of secrets; the warrior, Nikolei, slayer of the beasts; the tyrant, Nikitia, scourge of the west; the pariah, Yral, digger of the graves; and myself, Atrik, the slayer of ghosts."
They sat in silence for a long time. Crow was more quiet back then, back when... when the fear of speaking was fresh in his mind. It was the first time he had heard his father's name.
"You, fledgling, are just Crow, the doctor. You need no name because you will be the last..."
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