Salverston family

The Salverstons are a young family, barely in their 3 generation, The Salverston family's origin point,is Riverheim. The founder of the family Starkan was a recognized general in the Tortugan military, but due to an injury while teaching his son Agner how to sword fight. He decided to move the family to The Tortugan colonies in Eldham.

Starkan and Agner were both fighters, soldiers and family men, while Torsten is a by far the most successful of the family. Starkan and Agner seeked power with military might and fear, but that led to the so called family down fall.

The arrival to Riverheim
When they arrived at Riverheim they were known for bringing bad luck where they go and to seek power everywhere. The Thynning family tried to kick them out as they said- "They will only bring bad luck we all know they seek power through military might and fear" but the old Jarl Sorbito didn't want to hear it and welcomed them in. Their stay in Riverheim was peaceful except that the Thynning family would give them problems every so often,      people joked that they would start a "family war" one day........ little did they know that one day they will head to the battlefield and fight each other.

Tensions rise
you can see the tension in the air, the Salverstons and Thynnings have never been this close to fighting each other, after the Thynnings learned that the Salverstons had brought their most loyal men (37) to Riverheim.

The Thynnings rallied all their troops to confront the Salverstons, tensions reached a breaking point and they were about to begin fighting, when the old Jarl Sorbito said- "fight here and all of you will be convicted as traitors"

The Thynnings tried to apologies for them rallying their troops and confronting the Salverston, but Starkan and Agner had enough and said in 2 years we will fight whoever loses shall never show their face in Riverheim, The Thynnings were shocked at this, they didn't believe what they heard.

The battle
The Thynnings and Salverstons gather to discuss if this is truly the right thing to do, they came to the conclusion that they will fight but if the Salverstons lost Agner will be let to remain in Riverheim as a lowly Warrior/Soldier

The Salverstons were able to rally (51 soldiers) mostly Salverston loyalists fielding a majority knights (48) with 2 mounted knights and Starkan on Horses.

The Thynnings had a mix of everything archers, spearmen, knights, cavalry, and common soldiers they had a total of 341 soldiers mostly mercenaries as the Thynnings had the second most if not the most money in Riverheim.

The battle began with a cavalry charge by the Thynnings, as the Salverstons didn't have any spearmen the cavalry wiped the floor with them. Archer fire followed after the cavalry charge, both the charge and archer fire wiped a total of 31 knights of the side of the Salverstons but they still stood ready for a fight, the Thynnings tried to negotiate with Starkan but he didn't listen he said- "We continue"

The Thynnings followed with another cavalry charge, but they were able to block and engage the cavalry in a melee combat killing almost all of the cavalry unfortunately, this time the Salverston were not that lucky leaving only Starkan alive but with 1 broke leg and no horse to retreat, Starkan throw his sword away and said- "fine then kill me, there's no place in Riverheim for me"

The Thynning family head walked to Starkan, and with one swift blow Starkan fell to the ground.

Torsten's life
After learning from his father, their families history with the Thynnings, Torsten felt dread after all they had killed the greatest fighter in the family. Torsten didn't want to repeat his father and grandfather's mistakes so he changed the strategy they used to gain power for 2 generation it was military might and fear, but with him it will be intelligence and strategy.

Using the new strategy he was able to become a Mayor and an Imperial duke for Sylvania he adopted the migrating raven onto his families banner as he move from Riverheim to Naar'um, under his leadership Naar'um is thriving and he hasn't looked back since.