Microscope: A Collaborative Worldbuilding Forum RPG

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Focus: Great House Vabbi
The premier magi house of the Grand Duchy of Ludi, and one of the Twelve Old Lines of Feolyn, House Vabbi magi were the first to create and employ Golems for the purposes of combat.

Period: The Vabbi-Minastre House Wars
Description: One of the greatest House rivalries of Feolyn, the Vabbi-Minastre Wars span centuries of on-and-off belligerence. Assassinations, magical espionage, and, occasionally, full-on warfare were the preferred methods of hostility. The final Vabbi-Minastre War came to a bloody end with the massacre of House Minastre in the first recorded use of magical Golemry. (Dark, -321-3)

Event: Nascence
Parent Period: The Vabbi-Minastre House Wars
Description: Odo Vabbi, heir to House Vabbi, in a desperate attempt to protect his House's Library from the inroads of the invading House Minastre, made use of the forbidden art of Animation, thus creating the first Golems seen in Feolyn. The ensuing massacre of the Minastre magi so impressed General Phestri that the newfangled weapons were set to work on the field of battle. (Dark, 3)

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[Happerry]

Event: Founding of the Academy of Animation
Parent Period: The First Golem War
Description: With the demonstrated effectiveness of Golems used for war, House Vabbi opened the first academy meant entirely to train mages in the Art of Animation and Golem Design. (Light, 6)

 

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Event: The Eruditian Exodus
Parent Period: The Vabbi-Minastre House Wars
Description: With the complete downfall of House Minastre ensured and the subjugation of its assets and vassals well underway, the scientists and thinkers employed by the once great House fled from the grasping hands of the Vabbi forces, to be gainfully employed to further the ambitions of the Vabbi mages. Though some were taken under the House's patronage, many more thinkers and scientists chose to cross the Paline mountian range into the Sombrian city-states. The great, mad men and women brought with them creations and gadgets brilliant, artifacts and scrolls of a nature profound, and even the occassional Vabbi golem captured and made docile. Once solitary workers, they had been forced by necessity and the cultural quirks of the Sombrians to bond into guilds, wielding their intellects for a common cause. (Light, 3-4)

 

[Kensai]

Event: The Decline of House Vabbi and the Marriage of Susanna and Figaro
Period: The Hundred Famine Wars

Description: Despite their leading position in the development and use of Golems in war, House Vabbi did not long enjoy their preeminence among the great Houses. Indeed, their temporary success had blinded them to the deeper long-term failings of their governance. They had neglected their holdings in favour of fevered investment and research in Animation, but with the coming of the Hundred Famines they found that chronic mismanagement of their resource base had bankrupted them. They soon found it necessary to wed a scion of the great House to a Sombrian guilder's son in return for a line of credit. Surprisingly, this marriage would turn out to be a subtle success, not only stemming the decline of the House but eventually producing a wealth of talented progeny. [Light, 43]

(Yes, I'm setting up the Legacy here)