I'm looking for plots and family members for House Wyndham, a mage-sympathizing noble house during the Connloathian civil war. The general premise is they are a small, backwoods noble family from a remote valley in Ahjfeld who have remained culturally isolated from the rest of Connlaoth. They're seen as backwards by most, and in secret they worship fey and harbor numerous magical bloodlines.
After Harmond marched through the Duchy they are on the move, using banditry and fey curses to seize land, conscript mages, and menace loyalists to the Grand Duke. The idea is to carve out a province that tolerates magic, resorting to dark and unseemly and powers (and maybe a little blood sacrifice) to defend itself from Mordecai.
So far I've made
Wylie who is the inexperienced head of the household. It could use other family members, men-at-arms, or servants. I'm looking for rustic types with a creepy undercurrent: a mad cousin who wandered into the woods, vanished for 10 years, and returned not a day older but with the power to animate trees; the old midwife who uses her powers to send pox and blight to rival villages; or a grizzled hunter who wants to show those waist-coat wearing dandies from Reajh what's what. Good inspiration might be the
Boltons or
Reeds from a Song of Ice and Fire, Hjaalmarch from Skyrim,
the Wicker Man, or
the Lottery by Shirley Jackson.I'm open to almost anything in-terms of plots. Some ideas I had were:
-Negotiating alliances with other families from Ahjfeld.
-Conscripting mage-refugees.
-A grand duke loyalist dealing with banditry and blighted land.
-Slice of life roleplay with vassals or family members
