The Formation of House Vadalis

Founding

The creation of house Vadalis.

The Mark of Handling first appeared among humans in the Eldeen Reaches who eventually formed House Vadalis some eighteen hundred years ago. House Vadalis was the dragonmarked house that created and ran the Handlers Guild, which was devoted to breeding, selling, caring for, and training normal and magebred animals throughout Khorvaire. Originating in the Eldeen Reaches, Vadalis was the only human dragnmarked house to keep its center of operations outside the Five Nations. Its members were content to serve the small cities, towns, and rural areas largely ignored by the other, more cosmopolitan, houses.   While the dragonmarked houses consist of extended families—separate bloodlines that all trace back to common ancestry, the sheer size of most houses means that few house members can claim any sort of relationship outside their immediate family unit within the house. House Vadalis is the exception to this rule. While the other houses have done their best to increase their size and influence on Khorvaire, Vadalis has taken almost the opposite stance. Every Vadalis heir over the age of 10 can recite his family lineage on both of his parents’sides for several generations. This is not a matter of rote memorization for the purpose of pride, but information that sees daily use. Through this knowledge, any heirs of House Vadalis can determine the exact blood relationship to one another within an hour’s time. This in turn creates a strong bond between them. It is one thing to work alongside someone who shares your name, but another to aid your grandmother’s sister’s great-grandson—at least to a Vadalis heir. House Vadalis is a family first and a business second. Commerical deals that might threaten the larger family unit are ignored, while plans with less profit that accommodate the house’s structure are taken up instead. The other houses are routinely astounded by the Vadalis ways, often ridiculing the house’s limited wealth and influence, but Vadalis simply takes a different view of the world. In their minds, no one of their blood is a stranger and no amount of money can take the place of kin.