The Fall of Ravenrune

Disaster / Destruction

Super unorganized story, ill tune it up another time (for now, just read it if you want, or don't, it doesn't matter much.)
  Within the halls of the Ravenrune family, for decades they have been focused on one thing, strength. Ever since Simon Ravenrune became the world’s “Strongest Swordsman” long ago, the Ravenrune family has been at the top of the world in terms of swordsmanship, and the children who emerge from the family are often considered prodigies. In the Year 1582, the state of the Ravenrune family was in a tense place. The Patriarch, Simon Ravenrune the 3rd remarried to a woman with no noble blood, causing his ex-wife Patricia Ravenrune, and her side of the family to become furious. Simon had 3 children with Patricia, 16-year-old Kai Ravenrune, 17-year-old James Ravenrune, and 15-year-old Julia Ravenrune. Kai and James were joined at the hip, one year apart. They grew up very close but were considered cruel by the servants of the household. James, the older brother was considered the one with the highest potential with the sword, but Kai also had a fair ability as well. Julia was thought to be better than both of them, but she was not a candidate for Patriarch, and therefore less relevant in the political scheme of things. Simon’s brother Julius had two children, William Ravenrune and Abigail Ravenrune, both 20 years of age. William and Abigail were called prodigies in the sword, and William was considered the main candidate for the role of the next Patriarch. When Simon remarried, as mentioned prior, the side of the family that supported Patricia, cousins, and other noble houses, began to plot against Simon and sought to push James into power in Simon’s place. Julius Ravenrune was informed of the conspiration against the Patriarch, so he informed his brother. Around this time, Simon had a child with his new wife, however, they hid the announcement from the rest of the family. Simon announced to the entire extended family of Ravenrune, all of his siblings, cousins, advisors, and children that he was aware of certain hostility brewing within the family. He stated that should any complaint against him should be taken directly to him, and if they truly seek to remove him from the patriarch position, they would have to take it by force. The Ravenrune family was shocked, as Simon was oftentimes considered the Pacifist Patriarch due to his kind nature and refusal to participate in the conflict. A subsidiary-family member named Ulysses Poirot stepped up and challenged Simon. Simon accepted, and in mere seconds, Ulysses was sent back by a massive, blinding blast of light. The members of the gathering were shocked, and the hall stood quiet for some time. Julius ordered everyone to leave, and from this moment on, the house regained some composure, until roughly three years later when Simon revealed that he had a son. In a gala hosted by the Ravenrune family, Simon would reveal his son to the world, however, the son would be hidden, not attending the gala. He refused to name him, and he refused to say where we were. The Patricia faction of the family began to scramble, and the hunt began. Assassins hired by the Patricia faction searched through the castle day and night for the child, yet they couldn’t find him until they delved down to the ritual grounds. At the bottom of the Ravenrune Castle, there is a large tomb called the Ravenrune Ritual Grounds, where the patriarchs of the family are buried. Within the burial grounds, there is a large room named the Heart of the Raven, where a large raven statue looks over a ritual circle. The assassins file in and see Simon Ravenrune sitting within the circle, they leap at him to kill him, but Julius deflects the blows, and defends his brother. According to the surviving assassins, Julius defended Simon within the ritual circle for over an hour, until he died from blood loss. The assassins moved toward Julius, but he was done performing the ritual, and he disappeared from the scene. After that, there is no information on what happened regarding the whereabouts of Simon Ravenrune the 3rd or the unnamed son. Since then, the family has been taken over by William, the son of Julius, and Patricia Ravenrune has been placed in jail. During the assassin's attempt on the life of both Julius and Simon, a beast was summoned by an unknown mage to destroy both the castle and the territory under the Ravenrune rule. This beast was stopped by the current Shogun of Kogeki, Nagi Inishio, and his brother who was, in life, considered as the Prodigy of War, Shinji Inishio. Shinji passed in the battle, and Nagi Inishio defeated the beast using the opportunity his brother created. It is said that the knights of Ravenrune have been seen searching across Kogeki for the lost son of the family if he was found, he would have a claim to grasp the throne of kings, but most theorize that he was killed by the beast defeated by the Shogun.