Ironbeak Famly
The Ironbeak Family is a Lesser Salvan House that serves as a vassal to House Lanne; they are one of six knighthoods that occupy the bountiful Heartlands and serve the Lannes. They rule the south-west sub-territory of region, west of the Floods of Cyrriane near the northern most stretches of the Shadowlands.
The Ironbeaks are an older, knighted family whose original surname was never really known and was replaced by the familial name they use today. The family's first knighted son was a pauper farmboy, named Otto, who took a ox hoof to the face in his youth and somehow survived the skull-caving blow and was forced to wear an iron half-mask to keep his skull and jaw in place for the rest of his days. He served in the levys of House Lanne where he would take an ax to his iron face that was meant for a lordling Lanne's throat during an orc raid. When he woke from the battle some weeks later, he was cleaned, clothed, and covered in a Lanne banner in Miserth Castle. Otto Ironbeak was knighted for his service and dedication to his liege-lord. He went on to live a long and relatively normal life and fathered seven children. The signature mask he'd been confined to and was buried with was copied, crudeness and all, and is worn by his successors in ceremony and in court as an homage to the surname-less, first knight of the Ironbeak Family.
Agriculture & Industry
Like the other nobles of the Heartlands the Ironbeaks are an agricultural power that provide the finest plow oxen and tools to the farmers of the Heartlands, of which Houses Vyrion and Skylark and their citizens are the largest buyers as they have some of the largest spanses of farmland outside of the Lannes.
Trade & Transport
House Ironbeak does a great deal of trade of working metal with miners and prospectors that travel to and from the northern-most mountains of the Broken Spine that they use to make farming tools and equipment. They sometimes do trade with the Sage Stone Clan for the same metals, but the stubborness of the Mountain Dwarves sees to it that they make their dealings with House Lanne over their vassals. They accept that they make a bit less coin, but take that loss knowing their ties of trust are far stronger with the barony then of their subjects, which has a much greater value to the dwarves.
The Ironbeaks export farming equipment and tools: plows, yolks, and the like as well as the oxen that pull them to the other communities of the Heartlands. Metal working is a bit more common under the Ironbeaks as they are able to more readily acquire working steel and other metals then the other vassals due to their proximity to the Broken Spine.
Founding Date
636 ATS
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Family
Founders
Major Exports
Farming Equipment and Tools: Plows, yolks, and the like as well as Oxen
Major Imports
Working-grade Metals
Parent Organization
