House of the 8th Meridian
Bardic inheritors with interests in entertainment and story
Founded and still led by half-elven bard-adventurer Virtan Berkuyin, 8th House is known for its innumerable half-elf members and as a patron of the arts, sponsoring various entertainers, and eventually building the Salt in Wounds Opera and gladiatorial arena. While now of advanced years, Virtan sponsors ongoing competitions to see who will be her next paramour she takes the winner of such competitions as a lover who she lavishes attention, praise, and the utmost fidelity upon until she conceives and births children by them. At that point, her former lover is respectfully told to leave at which point she initiates a new competition and begins the cycle again. The city is littered with former lovers, heartbroken from the loss of love and the sensuous decadence of 8th House (though almost everyone believes that they were fools to think that they alone would escape the cycle).
8TH HOUSE MANOR-TOWER DISTRICT
A cluster of buildings all with expansive windows to prism light through colored glass, the 8th House Manor- Tower proper sports hundreds of art works, frescos, and performance spaces incorporated into the living quarters. Events held here are usually incredible selective and invitations are hard to come by even for other members of the aristocracy.
NOTABLE MEMBERS OF 8TH HOUSE
Current & Founding Binder-Lord: Virtan Ber-kutin is known for her love of the arts and as the mother of a significant portion of the city’s half elf population.
8th House Mistress of Song: Delanie, This brown-skinned, black-haired immigrant to Salt in Wounds has a reputation for incredible ruthlessness barely hidden by tremendous charm. Despite not being a blood relation to Virtan, she is heir apparent and subject to much envy and plots from Virtan’s sprawling brood.
8th House Sergeant-at-Arms: Dewaltor Husksire is a pale-skinned human in his early forties, a longtime companion of Delanie handpicked after her ascension he regularly thwarts threats against her life and rule.