House Kriegschiff
House Kriegschiff is a Great House that occupies the Kustlands and rules from their seat in the city of Avalon. The current lord is a goliath named Valentino Kriegschiff who is well known for being a former pirate, which has caused much discourse within The Aleanza on elevating a pirate to a position of noble society. House Kriegschiff has always had a reputation of staunch neutrality, trying to stay out of the squabbles between houses and only helping when the price is right. This region is famous for its dangerous shores, vast shipbuilding capabilities, and their mastery of naval warfare. Their house sigil is a silhouette of a yellow galleon on a dark navy blue backround and their house words are "Ride the Wave".
Structure
House Kriegschiff is a very independant house, preferring to use their own method of succession and trying to stay out of most of the politics within the kingdom. Their method of succession involves ship captains and a captain who is powerful enough, or confident enough can challenge the current lord to one on one ship combat and the winner will take the title of lord. The previous lord's family will be taken care of for the rest of their lives, but will no longer have the titles or lands.
Culture
House Kriegschiff has a culture of confidence, independance and a mindset of might makes right. The people from the Kustlands have grown up along a stretch of coast famous for is large beasts and dangerous waves and thus have grown to depend on the sea and revere its power. Ship captains in this region are famous for their skill and in this region it is not your lands or titles that make you powerful or demand respect, it is instead your reputation and how well you can lead men to face the waves.
Assets
House Kriegschiff isnt considered massively wealthy, they have an important role building ships for the nations house's and making up most of their navy, but this doesnt make them all that rich. The house posesses a standing army of around 7,000 men, equipped with seaworthy breastplates and favors the use of halberds and swords for boarding. Of course their most powerful asset is their large navy of over 500 warships, the largest in the country.
History
House Kriegschiff can trace its lineage back to two primary figures, one captain Ransom Guild and a powerful merchant named Trakal, it is these two who took their commanded fleets and combined wealth to put themselves in a position of power over the city of Avalon and allied themselves with Adonis during The Scourge. Due to their service and the skill of their vast navy they were formed into House Kriegschiff at the end of The Scourge with Ransom as its first lord, and out of desire to keep his house in skilled hands, established the tradition of the challenging of the curent lord for leadership.
Demography and Population
House Kriegschiff's population is mostly within the urban port cities along the driftwood coast, with the rest occupying logging or fishing villages within the Kustlands. There is a large population in the region due to plentiful fishing. The average person in this region isnt very wealthy, but most are skilled at some aspect of sea faring activities. Most of the populations is human, but they have a more varied population due to their large port cities attracting foreign trade. They also import a large amount of slaves from foreign lands who work in their lumber camps and build their ships.
Territories
House Kriegschiff and its houses occupy the Kustlands. These lands were occupied by various independant castle towns and city states during The Scourge, but eventually they fell under the banner of Kriegschiff after getting muscled out under threat of port blockades.
Religion
The people in the house worship The Order Tide, but especially Sylvanus who is the patron deity of the sea.
Ride the Wave
Type
Geopolitical, Great house
Capital
Demonym
Kriegschiff
Leader Title
Family Leader
Parent Organization
Subsidiary Organizations
Location
Controlled Territories
