House Hrafn

House Hrafn is a noble house of the Simulami Empire with its primary lands consisting of Stormgova, Novathus and various other towns spread across the Eldham colonies of Simulami. At its conception, all members followed the now dead religion of Stormgovan guardian. After a long period of death, the house eventually returned when Ornn Ludwig proclaimed his ambition to bring the house back.

Conception
House Hrafn was created thousands of years ago, and is believed to be the direct evolution to the ancient house Svarkor with the legendary figure of tales, Schmaggerd Von Skarvor as its founder and the Patriak who first lead Stormgovans to the island.

Famine and Chaos
After a long time of general wellbeing and growth, where the Hrafns held the crown of Stormgova and thus reigned without competition, the island of Stormgova was met with a severe and intense famine that destroyed 70% of the island's population. During this famine, the king at the time, Olaf Hrafn died too which led to a 25 year long period of chaos, wars and anarchy sweeping Stormgova by storm.

During these trying times, the leftover Hrafns would isolate themselves to the jungles and mountains of the Notusa region, where some would fight as mercenaries and others would live as scavengers. When the island was reunited under Harskare Halvard, the Hrafns became the Streysman family of the Huvod region, partly due to their reputation remaining strong throughout the famine.

Stormgovan Collapse
Leif Hrafn II was the Streysman of Huvod during the Stormgovan collapse. He fought alongside Schmaggerd, whom returned upon hearing of the dire state his island was in. Whilst Schmaggerd lived, Leif II sadly passed away during the battle of Stormgova which was a major victory for Schmaggerd's army and brought peace back to the island.

After the conflicts, Hrafn was met with a period of stagnation with only Birgir Hrafn living as a potential candidate for dominance over the island. Birgir was a weak person and preferred the life of a nomad over the life of a king. Stories tell of Birgir passing through the villages of the Vetr wasteland on a horse and the people of the villages being shocked that he was descended from the Hrafn family as he did not look like a mighty figure.

There, Birgir met a woman by the name of Ximena, whom gave birth to their son Seal Hrafn. Due to his weakness and unwillingness to rule, Birgir settled down as a blacksmith. He would continue this life until his death at the hands of some great storms that hit Stormgova.

After the storm
Surviving the storms, Seal Hrafn, his only son and last remaining Hrafn, roamed around the island and met a woman with the name of Onix Khione who he promptly married and had a child with. This child, Ornn Hrafn, would later travel around all of Eldham alongside Schmaggerd to learn about the world.

Seal, with Stormgova now under Simulami control, grew to become the Eldham regent for the colonies, being one of the best regents in the history of the colonies. Him and Onix built the city of Seal_Cove and grew it to be one of the two capitals in the empire.

Ornn's return to Stormgova
Ornn Hrafn returned to his homeland. When he arrived back to Stormgova, he met a woman with the name of Lady Notusa, of a once mighty noble house, whom gave birth to three biological children, Janet Hrafn, Jay Hrafn and Birgir II Hrafn.

However, Lady Notusa would die after their birth and Ornn was now a father with 3 children. He thought long and hard about what to do with them and came to the conclusion that the 3 would be sent to Rathnir to study in the University of Muviel-Osundir and to one day return with even greater knowledge.

Ornn would take over a town from one of his relatives, Green Lion II, who was famously an architect. He looked through his plans and came across a blueprint for a castle in the very centre of Stormgova, which he followed and with a team of experienced builders, Ornn would build Hrafn Castle.

One day, seal mysteriously disappeared. Rumours say he decided to follow into his fathers footsteps and become a nomad, whilst others say Seal simply died without his body ever being recovered. There are also more sinister rumours as to him following the evil Solea god, Caligo, and becoming one with him.

However, a few years after the disappearance of Seal and Onix, Ornn would be adopted into House Ludwig. Perhaps out of grief or loneliness, House Hrafn was now declared dead with Ornn' ascension into Ludwig. It is there that Ornn learned to be a proper noble. It is also there that Ornn would adopt two 3 children; Melody, Abyss and Otto. The first of which disappearing shortly before adopting Abyss.

Ludwigs and the revival of Hrafn
Whilst Stormgova grew under Ludwig rule, it was not without its faults. Under Ludwig's reign, the old stormgovan guardian temple was destroyed by the hands of Victoria Maestro, Ornn Ludwig and Abyss Ludwig, alongside various other Soleviel believers. This became known as the "Fire Festival" where the last Guardian follower, Ali was executed in front of the temple.

Janet and Jay returned back to Stormgova and began re-building their mother's old castle in the south in the ancient city of Veruta. Alongside this, Birgir II would, shortly after his sibling Janet and Jay Ludwig reunited with their father, visit his father and raid various towns of Stormgova. Birgir would speak against the Ludwigs, Soleviel, and his father being an important figure to Stormgovans, however losing a lot of his credibility after killing several Munio residents and attempting to murder Otto's son, Fwyn Ludwig until being thrown out of a window by Abyss and disappearing for a few years. Most famously, Birgir would massacre and publicly execute people during a Soleviel ceremony at Pissevirke in the name of the Stormgovan Guardian. After this tragedy, Abyss Ludwig would hunt down Birgir II, disappearing like their lost half-sibling Melody did.

After the death of Robb Ludwig and Maximelian Ludwig, head of the family at the time, and after Abyss's return to Stormgova without Birgir II's head, Ornn and most of his children would bring back the dead House Hrafn in an attempt to become closer to their ancestor's spirit.