The D'lanastion Monarchy

"It is not a matter of loyalty that defines our drive to be ruled, but instead a natural understanding of the workings of society. We as a people have inherited a divine right to superiority, mastering the very life force of the world - yet we too require leadership." - Anonymous.

'''"We are a people brought together by righteous will that derives from our lust for blood, vengeance, glory and honour; it is our duty to abide to rules that bring forth the tides of reckoning. But without leadership, what are we but reckless - mobs with the mask of genuine concern are nothing but what they literally are: a mob. Men, women and children; from the dawn of Quel'thalas' time, there hath been an ultimate resolve instilled within us all. A people who were betrayed by our hypocritical ancestors, slaughtered to the fullest extent and thence, again, shattered by the sovereign rule of darkness - we were meant to be led by a prevailing force. Through their time, the Sunstrider dynasty ran along the Thalassian Song's purest notes, giving birth to the greatest kingdom the world will have ever known - but with a General in-place of a King, there is no pride left for our people in the terms of ruling. But that is why the Lords of Lords were born; that is why the Convocation of Silvermoon implied the nobility. And amongst those of pure descent, one brought about true change in the most subtle of ways; such house reigns even over the organisation you preside in today. Hark! For here is the tale of House D'lanastion."'''

Foundation
Almost six-thousand and five-hundred years ago, the first fleets of the Kaldorei resistance (a group of High Elves - or Highbourne - that had been plunged from their luxuries to chaos) began to land on the shoes of the kingdoms of Lordaeron. For quite some time, the settlement brought happiness abroad - here was new land for settling, and beauty to be held in the eyes of those that were finally free. But there was darkness beneath; only a masque retained it. As more and more High Elves began to go mad for some peculiar reason, they managed through the Darrowmere Forests, eventually finding settlement in the kingdom of Quel'thalas. By Dath'Remar Sunstrider's leadership and prominent authority, the eternal High Kingdom was thence founded; but in the wake of their sanctuary, the golden age was not to last. It was then, after the city of Silvermoon was established, that the Troll wars began. But there are some that go unnoticed through these endeavors; and through their subtly, they change the course of history with solely repressed manipulative capability.

Delianos Glaivemourn; a man that today would be known as the most prodigious figure in all history of the D'lanastion bloodline. Amidst the fleet that first entered the kingdoms of Lordaeron, there had been a sole man whose history that today not many are particularly certain of. A modest height, in comparison to his late Highbourne brethren - an Arcanist of the High Elves themselves, but humble in the aspect of using his power. Delianos was born on the 15th of December nearly ten-thousand years ago, a dominant figure in the Kaldorei caste system before it had been abolished following The Well of Eternity's decimation. Aristocracy was something not unknown to Delianos; and as the entrance of Quel'thalas began to form appropriate governments over the conflicting land, the opportunity to gain power came with Delianos' bid to elect himself as a candidate for a Magistrate of the northern sub-states and minor, mediocre provinces of the kingdom. As with certain men and women of the Kaldorei Resistance, he changed his name - today, he would be known as Tacitus D'lanastion, the first of a long line of the nobility. Acting as a self-styled regent for all of the property he governed, he began to control the aspects of trade - he unveiled routes to properly communicate between the most extremes of the newly-forged land, and brought families together by placing them in appropriate stands with one another by force. It was during these years that Tacitus would proclaim himself of scared descendency, but such would go unnoticed, granting him only a sort of minor victory with the nationalists of the nation in terms of providing him an extra source of power. He would reign over the minor lands granted to him with impunity, though did not exploit such. These are the times that would be recorded by the next ancestors of House D'lanastion as the "Golden Ages" - they were not to last. As the Troll Wars raged furiously aboard, siege after siege impeding successful settlement before the aid of the bordering kingdoms. During his fifteen-thousandth year, it was then that the mighty Tacitus began to marry. A man of polgyamy, he took upon himself five wives: Aelysia Sunflare, Szaria Rominare, Czihnna Moonfury, Jessilia Direwood and Aeliana Mistrunner. Each of these women would give birth to one son. Tacitus himself, began to fall to illness.

The Imperial Five
To each of his wives, Tacitus was bore a son - any record of female children that had been brought into the world prior-to shall have been abolished due to the Magistrate's over-obsessive need for solely male heirs of both his name and whatever power may come. His sons were brought into a world of aristocracy, though remained at a social-standing that each would later find undesirable. In order of the eldest to youngest; Aelysia gave birth to Tacitus Lucaecious D'lanastion the second - Szaria to Juliaus D'lanastion; Czihnna to Forte D'lanastion, Aeliana to Derian D'lanastion and Jessilina to Britannicus D'lanastion. These five sons would reign over the province using their shared power, proclaimed regents to success their father temporarily as he gradually sickened to death. Their mothers would inevitably fall at a later time to illness or age.

Juliaus himself began to experiment, by order of his father, in the art of Evangelism, per duty to himself when making commitment to the Church of the Holy Light.

Britannicus took upon himself the path of a combatant - a politician that would soon evolve, as the years progressed, into a brawler. Toting a sword and mastering the art of Swordsmanship accordingly, Britannicus - as the youngest of all the brothers - would take it upon himself to marry at an early age, so that the dynasty could begin to revolve around his own ideals and perspectives due to the holiness of matrimony. His plans fell short, and slowly crumbled in private after his first divorce near the end of his adolescence.

Tacitus, the eldest of the four, began to study under a similar path in which Britannicus had - that which involved the art of weaponry and defense, he became an essential figure for their bloodline. Tacitus took it upon himself to carry on his father's wayward morals, preaching to each of his family members in sermons of nationalistic - supremacy-like, almost - quality.

Derian became increasingly obsessive with the art of the Silver Hand - taking it upon himself to preach for a brief period of time before turning to an alternative source of life, experimenting as a swift-footed pathstalker. He trained many pupils, mastering a well-known art labeled "toxocology". His mishaps brought about several unrecorded deaths, due to the mysterious circumstances in which most occurred.

Forte, the second-to-youngest of the line, followed as his brothers before him did in the brief period of time that separated their births (only a few months). He began to train alongside the human kingdoms of Arathi, offering himself to the teachings of the more divine. It was in these sessions that he became somewhat devout, practicing the art of channeling the deity that so many worshiped into a fighting force for righteousness. His morals would fade from him at a later time, after Tacitus' impression was finally sunken more than skin-deep.

Out of these five, it was solely Tacitus that began to wield and experiment within the fields of politics. He began to work relentlessly to advance his position in the northern provinces, using charisma and his father's social standing to his advantage. The death of his father, Tacitus the first, plunged the man into a well of internal conflict. He paused his campaign various times to mourn without rationality - even in the face of an accomplished politician, he broke down on several occasion before finally dismissing what was to be conversed during that meeting. Eventually, Tacitus accelerated the pace in which notice came to him; serving as a high-ranking enlistment of the Thalassian Army, Tacitus was knighted by an officer - and elder - that claimed him to have sacred blood, for his acts of courage, bravery and ambassador-like qualities brought about peace in some circumstances. Tacitus immediately began to exploit this; taking it upon himself that he was nobility alongside his brothers, he proclaimed each of the same "pure blood". Forming a House accordingly, he took it upon himself to become Lord - leading each of his siblings. He made them to be true forces of rekconing - Forte, Britannicus, Derien and Juliuas would soon be recognised as proper tribute to form such aspiring organisation. Britannicus and Forte immediately relinquished all ties from the Silver Hand - they started to send worship to Belore, the figure known to most as the "Sun". Derien was a different case; and through his hopeless romantic endeavors, settled for a modest life in the nobility for a brief seizure of time before Tacitus threw him into the fray of politics.

Tacitus would proclaim each men of sacred blood, naming them to be Princes of Quel'thalas itself - a title to solely give mention of their standing. He would be their Duke, but recognised from the public eye as a Lord. Britannicus, Juliuas, Forte and Derien would each take a High Elven bride. Britannicus would have his own give birth to Jero'miah Templesmith D'lanastion and Britannicus D'lanastion the second. Juliuas would be bore the sons known as Juliuas D'lanstion the second and Czhianna D'lanastion. Derien to Derien D'lanstation the second, his wife unable to bear children after due to a wound that would result in her infertility. Forte D'lanastion would gain three children: Forte D'lanastion II, Galva D'lanastion and Aenastariaon D'lanastion.

It was after some manner of choice for ruling from Tacitus' aspect that the eldest son of the original Princes - bred of one virgin woman's own line - would continue to take the title of "Prince" through the ages to come.

Today, the current Princes are those that have remained are: Forte D'lanastion XVII, Derien D'lanastion XVI.

Through the ages that followed after the deaths of the Imperial Five, several thousand years later, it was that Tacitus took it upon himself to stall his aging process - through several close family friends who were Arcanists' efforts, Tacitus prolonged the acts of aging by exposing himself to brutal and cruel treatment via the Arcane wonders. Tacitus would be the longest reigning Lord over House D'lanastion that most will have ever known. His nobility began to climb in power with the births of more and more children, whether it be lower-ranking or the Prince's eldest sons' direct descendants, all were given place. Controlling now several provinces due to the polygamy of several children from The Imperial Five, a great portion of the northern sub-states belonged rightfully to House D'lanastion - though note that these paled in comparison to true land-bearers.

Through the years that followed, many great sons were to be born over the course of time - to stall the aging of Tacitus II's second son, he employed the same magics which kept him at a stand-still in time. As the Imperial Five inevitably passed, it was their sons - each who bore their names - that carried on both the trades in which they excelled, as well as the birthright granted. This age moved through the reign of the King Anasterian Sunstrider.

Then began the Scourge Invasion, when the Sunwell had been the source of true power; reaching the tenth generation of most of the dynasty, the nobility proclaimed itself as one of the highest standing influential forces in Quel'thalas itself. This was a masque; only in the sub-states they controlled did House D'lanastion have true power to exert. When the Scourge invasion plunged the High Elven state into chaos, it was then that perhaps the second Tacitus saw opportunity, as his father had before him. With Forte, Derien, Britannicus and Juliaus' descendants masters of their trade, it was only Tacitus that presented himself when Spellbreakers were to be made by their beloved Prince, Kael'thas Sunstrider. Taking the lower-ranking nobility of the house, Tacitus offered each male combatant that specialised in melee to be trained in the art of the Spellbreaker. Due to their vast numbers, several of the men were granted positions of high-power as their Prince gathered his followers after the ravaging of Quel'thalas to trek into Outland.

Through the Third War, it was then that the nobility began to acquire more provinces for gain - Tacitus the second proclaimed the house itself as a monarchy, righteous and decorated with men of true, pure blood. As the conversion from Quel'dorei to Sin'dorei began to take place, Tacitus urged each to consume the fel-magic - successfully turning the tides of the moral for the house. It was upon the Blood Elves' return to Quel'thalas that Tacitus began to relentlessly work on creating a militia. This band of Elven warriors would be known as "The Bloodsworn". Created initially as a Crusade in the name of both the Light and 'Belore', a deity given reverence by most of the nobility, The Bloodsworn's leader was the most prominent paladin through the monarchy. A descendant of the Mighty Five's own Forte D'lanastion the first, Forte D'lanastion the fifteenth would reign over this organisation, preaching the twisted moral that Tacitus the second commanded.

With the betrayal of Prince, an idol of the second Tacitus, the Lord was driven to madness. Paranoid and insecure, he began to command that invasion of Thalassian territory must be held. He gouged out his eyes due to belief that he was truly tainted. It was when Tacitus was condemned a traitor, and found guilty of treason, that the Lord was executed, thus ending his reign. His son, Tacitus III, would take standing over the monarchy as its new Lord. The Forte D'lanastion the fifteenth would fall to illness, bestowing power immediately to his eldest son, the sixteenth. As the House had begun to face the slander and rumours of populace due to Tacitus the second's actions, it was temporarily disbanded. Few of the true nobility remain today as a result.

Preaching racial supremacy within his regiment, Forte the sixteenth would soon pass leadership to his adoptive son, Forte D'lanstion XVII. Forte XVI would pass sometime after under mysterious circumstance.

With only few of the remaining, true nobility there to retain their blood, the ideas of nationalism and pride were taken into account. Refusing the fate of his own father, Tacitus II denies all accusation of "bad blood", so to speak. House D'lanastion currently controls many northern provinces of the land, their manor residing in the deep recesses of the kingdom.

Ranking Structure
"Due to the system in which the D'lanastion monarchy appoints its leaders and other imperial guard, ranks are very limited to those that are not born through the pure blood of the Imperial Five, or the Lord himself."

- Lord
The Lord of House D'lanastion, our Grand Duke, reigns over all affairs that concern the nobility with impunity to his actions - at least, from the monarchy itself. He is the descendant of the first Tacitus, our saviour and righteous ruler. May he be blessed, for alongside the Kings of Kings, he is the greatest ruler in the nations itself.

- Prince
The title of 'Prince' is derived from the first rank given to the Imperial Five, the rightful sons of Tacitus I. The eldest of each descendant - a son - are to be placed upon such throne. Only the son of Tacitus himself may impede their rule.

- Duke / Duchess
A "Duke" or "Duchess" of the D'lanastion monarchy is typically the second-eldest son or daughter of a descendant of the Imperial Five. This is a birth-rank, assigned depending on age.

- Count / Countess
Should any other children follow in the aspect of eldest to the most youthful when assigning ranks, they shall be proclaimed a 'Count' or 'Countess' - a member revered for their willingness to be submissive to their siblings. If initiated into the household by the Praetor, the leader of The Bloodsworn, there are only to be high-ranking officers that achieve this rank; they are to be appropriately sworn-in and pledge their lives to the monarchy.

- Baron / Baroness
The Baron or Baroness follows in accordance to age, as well the state of their military training. An enlistment of The Bloodsworn is to be sworn in solely to this rank.

- Knight / Dame
Should a commoner or modest military soldier seek entrance to the House, they must be appropriately set on trial - a period of fasting, sacrifice, end feast and celebration is to be held for them. This is to test the vices, for the Knight or Dame must be readied to take on responsibility and properly place their knowledge into excelling to the rank of Baron or Baroness.