The wealth of the Protus family.
I've had a little time and didn't feel like working on an actual update (the next should be for VOTA) and I've figured I'll take some time to give you respective on how rich Aurora family is.
As one of the thirty lower houses, the Protus are an important part of the empire they have various towns and dozens of villages (and hundreds of hamlets) under their rule and they are currently vowing for the control of a city, in total there are around 100k mortals living under the Portus rule and more then double that if we take into account all the retainers and vassal clans that are sworn to them.
In term of straight up power, they are likely on the weaker end but in term of just raw wealth there only like two other houses that can match them within the lower nobility.
But how much wealth do they actually have?
We'll start with the easy the Protus collect around 20K gold a year from taxes in their holdings and another 13k from taxes owed by their vassal houses and clans, although this is almost always actually paid by produce and services rather than cold hard cash (weather grain from peasants or pills for alchemy houses and so on).
Another 10-15k gold is gained from member contributions, weather that's family members who are doing missions through the sects or making money on the side, a small portion goes to the family.
Up to now this is fairly regular, all the houses gain money through taxes and member contribution to one extant or another but 40-50k gold isn't that high on that scale especially among the houses which posses a lot more land or managed to snag a stewardship of a city (which alone brings an average of 20K gold a year on average) but where some houses take up the craft of alchemy or spirit beast rearing to make extra cash.
The Protus are merchants and they do not only possess many investments in local enterprise al over the empire, to the toon of 30k gold dividends a year they also control and maintain a vast mercantile empire which beings in almost 200k gold in gross yearly profits (although on net after all the costs and tariffs they make like 80K net).
To summarize, every year the Protus family makes around 150K gold coins, just to compare the average peasant would make around 40-50 silver a year depending on how good the harvest goes.
And that amount of wealth is not low even when looking at the five great houses who average an income of around 200-300K gold a year.
So, where does it all go to?
Well, 30k is paid to the imperial family as taxes, this is high compared to the Protus peers but they get rebates and reductions in their other noble obligations so its seen positively by the family.
Around 10K gos to maintain their personal holdings, the mansions, the staff, the wards and everything else.
Another 30k is going to either expend the merchant company or to improve their fiefs in some ways (mostly infrastructure).
~50k goes in the cultivation fund to help the family members cultivate and train (this is where your personal stipend comes from) most of this goes to the older members who are more advanced in cultivation and their oaths and the aids to them start at hundreds of gold and can go up to tens of thousands.
Another 10k is paid to various retainer houses for their services (a prime example would be the ninja house) and the last 20K is put into the family vault to be drawn in times of crises, emergency or great opportunity.
The family vault (which is heavily guarded) has a few million-gold worth of gems and gold around saved for a Riney day but the gold is likely worth the least out of all the thing there.
The oath severing Katana (with can sever the oaths of those it strikes) is literarily priceless, as is the chainmail of one thousand oaths, an armor that can absorb 1000 attacks no matter how powerful or whatever oath is enhancing them and whose every link in the chain mail was oath forged over centuries (I.e someone utilized an oath for only a single act which enhanced it considerably).
In summary your family has fuck you levels of money and there are very few who can compare in term of just pure wealth.
As one of the thirty lower houses, the Protus are an important part of the empire they have various towns and dozens of villages (and hundreds of hamlets) under their rule and they are currently vowing for the control of a city, in total there are around 100k mortals living under the Portus rule and more then double that if we take into account all the retainers and vassal clans that are sworn to them.
In term of straight up power, they are likely on the weaker end but in term of just raw wealth there only like two other houses that can match them within the lower nobility.
But how much wealth do they actually have?
We'll start with the easy the Protus collect around 20K gold a year from taxes in their holdings and another 13k from taxes owed by their vassal houses and clans, although this is almost always actually paid by produce and services rather than cold hard cash (weather grain from peasants or pills for alchemy houses and so on).
Another 10-15k gold is gained from member contributions, weather that's family members who are doing missions through the sects or making money on the side, a small portion goes to the family.
Up to now this is fairly regular, all the houses gain money through taxes and member contribution to one extant or another but 40-50k gold isn't that high on that scale especially among the houses which posses a lot more land or managed to snag a stewardship of a city (which alone brings an average of 20K gold a year on average) but where some houses take up the craft of alchemy or spirit beast rearing to make extra cash.
The Protus are merchants and they do not only possess many investments in local enterprise al over the empire, to the toon of 30k gold dividends a year they also control and maintain a vast mercantile empire which beings in almost 200k gold in gross yearly profits (although on net after all the costs and tariffs they make like 80K net).
To summarize, every year the Protus family makes around 150K gold coins, just to compare the average peasant would make around 40-50 silver a year depending on how good the harvest goes.
And that amount of wealth is not low even when looking at the five great houses who average an income of around 200-300K gold a year.
So, where does it all go to?
Well, 30k is paid to the imperial family as taxes, this is high compared to the Protus peers but they get rebates and reductions in their other noble obligations so its seen positively by the family.
Around 10K gos to maintain their personal holdings, the mansions, the staff, the wards and everything else.
Another 30k is going to either expend the merchant company or to improve their fiefs in some ways (mostly infrastructure).
~50k goes in the cultivation fund to help the family members cultivate and train (this is where your personal stipend comes from) most of this goes to the older members who are more advanced in cultivation and their oaths and the aids to them start at hundreds of gold and can go up to tens of thousands.
Another 10k is paid to various retainer houses for their services (a prime example would be the ninja house) and the last 20K is put into the family vault to be drawn in times of crises, emergency or great opportunity.
The family vault (which is heavily guarded) has a few million-gold worth of gems and gold around saved for a Riney day but the gold is likely worth the least out of all the thing there.
The oath severing Katana (with can sever the oaths of those it strikes) is literarily priceless, as is the chainmail of one thousand oaths, an armor that can absorb 1000 attacks no matter how powerful or whatever oath is enhancing them and whose every link in the chain mail was oath forged over centuries (I.e someone utilized an oath for only a single act which enhanced it considerably).
In summary your family has fuck you levels of money and there are very few who can compare in term of just pure wealth.