House Thorne

The noble House of the Virelay Coastlands — old enough to remember when the Coast had three lighthouses, young enough that everyone alive can name its current Lord and Lady. House Thorne rules from Thorne Manor with the quiet authority of a family that has never needed to wave its name around. Lord Thorne runs the holdings; Lady Thorne runs the diplomacy; their son Auren Thorne — charming, bumbling, exceptionally bad at fighting, exceptionally hard to dislike — was supposed to inherit a peaceful house. Instead he inherited the Fray. The Thornes' trade lines with Virelay are crumbling under the Fray's pressure, and the family's real wealth now is the loyalty of the coastal villages they have stood by. When Auren slipped away on the night the Coastlands shook, his parents watched him go and did not stop him — which is the truest portrait of the House there is.