Name: Caradoc Mourningstar
Race: Drykas
Date of Birth: Winter 23 475 AV
Place of Birth: Sea of Grass
Title/Job: Ankal of the Mourningstar Pavilion
Skills: Animal Husbandry 46, Webbing 72, Horsemanship 26, Leadership 42, Bartering 31, Hunting 39, Riding 40, Navigation 42, Spear 38, Shortbow 29, Wilderness Survival 31
Gnosis: 2 Stormwarden, 1 Mele
History: The second son of the previous Ankal, and his heir ahead of eight other sons, Caradoc is a powerful man in his pavilion, very respected and well-loved by his family. He has a shrewd mind, a taciturn disposition, and the presence that one notices. Respect has flourished between himself and those pavilions that are neighbours, business partners, and the homes his wives have come from, and even his enemies, where they exist, are given, and have offered, respect. The man already has his heir lined up, in the case of his passing, his oldest son, whom he has shared his knowledge of Webbing already, in anticipation of death befalling him at any time. Caradoc had three wives, and he has twelve children from them. From those twelve, he has seven grandchildren.
Name: Vala Mourningstar
Race: Drykas
Date of Birth: Summer 78 472 AV
Place of Birth: Sea of Grass
Title/Job: Ankal's wife, Breeder
Skills: Sewing 38, Animal Husbandry 41, Leadership 12, Childcare 22, Riding 44, Navigation 14, Horsemanship 25, Spear 40, Intimidation 14, Wilderness Survival 29
Gnosis: None
History: Caradoc's first wife and the mother of the majority of his children, Vala came originally from the tents of the Wintersong Pavilion, of the Diamond Clan. She is a severe looking matron, with a stern set face, brooding grey eyes, and a noted lack of humour, but she's very kind. Soft-spoken. Gentle. Although one instinctively flinches when she raises her hand, it is to great surprise when the following gesture is often a caress, or pat. Whether or not this is intended is up for debate. She has just had her seventh child, and has been extremely weary since.
Name: Aedha Mourningstar
Race: Drykas
Date of Birth: Spring 3 496 AV
Place of Birth: Endrykas
Title/Job: Ankal's wife, Navigator
Skills: Navigation 21, Riding 40, Horsemanship 22, Animal Husbandry 29, Pottery 38, Drawing 12, Astronomy 4
Gnosis: None
History: The Ankal's youngest wife is a rather plain, unassuming girl from the Reddawn Pavilion. She's not very gifted, but what she can't offer in skill or beauty, she can provide to her husband with a figure that promises strong children, and a long enough life to produce many. The woman is kind and warm, although still young and quite naive, and seems to enjoy Caradoc's presence and spending time with him in the hopes of learning more of his pavilion's skill. She is currently in the first trimester of bearing her second child.
Name: Bran Mourningstar
Race: Drykas
Date of Birth: Summer 55 476 AV
Place of Birth: Sea of Grass
Title/Job: Navigator
Skills: Navigation 51, Riding 46, Animal Husbandry 41, Falconry 22, Birdkeeping 42, Spear 29, Wilderness Survival 29, Tactics 48, Astronomy 27, Teaching 11
Gnosis: None.
History: Fourth son to the previous Ankal, and having been born just mere minutes after his twin sister, Bran Mourningstar never really aspired to be anything more than an indispensable unit to the Pavilion's structure. He offers a sort of pithy insight to his brother and their extended family that isn't much seen among their closest neighbours, and his comfort and familiarity with birds is without peer, a clear contrast to the family's focus on their powerful Seme bloodline. Bran has his own contingent of trained crows, and while he's an esteemed navigator and is often busy, he can be consulted for lessons in the skill. He has four children, and is expecting a fifth as well as his first grandchild.
Name: Bron Mourningstar
Race: Drykas
Date of Birth: Summer 55 476 AV
Place of Birth: Sea of Grass
Title/Job: Breeder
Skills: Animal Husbandry 48, Horsemanship 39, Riding 40, Driving 23, Navigation 22, Medicine 24, Singing 30, Snake Spear 21
Gnosis: None.
History: While her brother became the esteemed navigator, Bron made her trade the breeding and keeping of the pavilion's proud Semes. She bonded closely with her brother Meical over the trade, and while she was married off to the Blackhorse pavilion, they remained close well up until his death, and to this day she's worn a strip of black cloth for his memory. Her return to the Mourningstar came when the Blackhorse was decimated by the plague that stripped the horseclans of their numbers, and because of the merging of the survivors from both, they came out stronger than before. She remains with her husband and their six children after his second wife (mother of four of those children) perished to the plague, the current head breeder and at the ear of Caradoc and Bran both. She's a grandmother to three beautiful sons.
Name: Carys Mourningstar
Race: Drykas
Date of Birth: Summer 14 481 AV
Date of Death: Winter 35 512 AV
Place of Birth: Endrykas
Title/Job: Ankal's wife, Hunter
Skills: Animal Husbandry 29, Hunting 46, Riding 40, Longbow 29, Tracking 15, Trapping 24, Navigation 31, Wilderness Survival 28, Camouflage 11
Gnosis: None
History: Carys was considered Caradoc's favourite wife, and as a daughter of the Emerald Clan's ambiguous Darkwind Pavilion, she could nonetheless be considered the jewel of the grassland, with her great beauty, her open personality, and the way she could dedicate herself to a hunt with such a singleminded intensity that, and this was said often by children, the animals she hunted would approach her willingly for the honour of feeding her family. Of course, Carys had worked hard for her skill as a huntress. Unfortunately, the beloved second wife of the ankal was taken from the Mourningstar Pavilion during the cruel plague that struck the city in 512 AV, and the grassland has seemed duller without her. She had born Caradoc five children.
Name: Aeronwen Mourningstar
Race: Drykas
Date of Birth: Autumn 58 478 AV
Date of Death: Summer 12 517 AV
Place of Birth: Sea of Grass
Title/Job: Tavekh Troha
Skills: Leadership 48, Snake Spear 40, Shortspear 41, Riding 50, Animal Husbandry 29, Medicine 30, Longbow 38, Tracking 15, Navigating 29, Wilderness Survival 31
Gnosis: Unknown
History: A skilled leader, Aeronwen was Caradoc's favourite sister. She was considered an old maid, unable to have children and unwanted by the pavilions of young men who, when she was young, recognized in her something innately flawed that prevented her from menstruating. She never married out from the Sunstrike pavilion, and remained fixated at her brother's side, riding proud with her role as a woman of the watch and filling the disappointment in her life with stalwart duty. She died to a Zith attack, but not without victory.
Name: Meical Mourningstar
Race: Drykas
Date of Birth: Winter 1 477 AV
Date of Death: Winter 2 497 AV
Place of Birth: Endrykas
Title/Job: Breeder
Skills: Animal Husbandry 48, Horsemanship 48, Riding 23, Medicine 41, Driving 21, Herbalism 18, Snake Spear 34, Navigation 15
Gnosis: None
History: Meical was young when he died from influenza, but no less gifted when it came to horse care and a peerless member of the pavilion who's loss shook their structure and demanded the need for more males to cover the losses that year. He kept a pair of Seme that were both without competition, proud and powerful animals that were his pride and joy and were two of the esteemed forebears of the current line of Mourningstar Seme. He provided four children for his family before his death, the final two being born posthumously as identical twins.
Name: Idwal Mourningstar
Race: Drykas
Date of Birth: Winter 1 477 AV
Date of Death: Winter 4 498 AV
Place of Birth: Endrykas
Title/Job: Guard
Skills: Riding 29, Shortspear 40, Longbow 12, Intimidation 34, Bodybuilding 13, Tactics 25, Animal Husbandry 34
Gnosis: None
History: Idwal suffered the unfortunate death of being thrown from the back of a stallion and having had his neck broken upon impact, and so he isn't much spoken of among the Mourningstar except in hushed conversation during times of bad luck. He had two children to carry him on after his death, and while acknowledged by the family as a whole, they are sometimes warily regarded, as if they two may befall an unfortunate fate. He was brother to Caradoc, and so that afforded him some measure of pride, and that pride may have led to his downfall.