The Luxxor Family
The Luxxor family have been prominent nobles in Nalathesh for several generations. They control a small but prosperous stretch of real estate in Nalathesh’s capital, Aridala, and they also maintain a healthy network of international trade.
Unless noted otherwise in their specific entries, the Luxxors bear strong resemblance to one another. They are all humans with dark skin, brown eyes, and black hair. They tend to be on the shorter side and they have firm, heroic facial features.
Mattias and Puri Luxxor maintain the family’s estate and affairs in Aridala, while Mattias’s younger sister Adelaide frequently travels with merchant caravans to Nalathesh’s neighboring nations. Adelaide’s husband, Reza, was a common merchant and took on the Luxxor family name when he married into the family.
Tovarian Doctrine
Erdelan Luxxor and her late husband, Mahdi, privately converted to Tovarianism and worship of the Celestial Council after their prayers to the Celestials were answered with the birth of their twin children, Mattias and Adelaide. Since then, their family has been slowly trying to separate religion and governance in Nalatheshi culture. Because Nalathesh is ruled by a godking, this is a slow and politically fraught process. Mattias and Adelaide remain convinced of their family’s mission. Two of Mattias’s children, Marcus and Reshi, share in this conviction, but Mattias’s eldest son, Lucius, believes that this will spell doom for the Luxxor family.
Family Tension
Mattias finds Reza an agreeable enough fellow and likes him personally, but is worried that Reza wants to manipulate Adelaide and use her as leverage to secure more power in the Luxxor house. Adelaide does not believe such claims hold merit, and believes she is clear-eyed enough that she would see if Reza were actually to try any power grabs.
In reality, Reza wants to generate more wealth for all the Luxxor household, believing that a rising tide raises all boats. He holds Mattias in high regard and has no intentions of undermining his brother in law.
Adelaide
Adelaide Luxxor manages the traveling merchant branch of the Luxxors’ family affairs along with her husband, Reza. She is kind and generous with both her time and resources, but she is also pragmatic. If it becomes apparent that someone has been exploiting her family’s resources or profiting from their kindness, she responds with the full force allowed in the Nalatheshi legal system.
Erdelan
Erdelan Luxxor is the eldest living member of the Luxxor family, and has long since ceded management of the noble family’s affairs to her son and daughter. Erdelan is Adelaide’s and Mattais’s mother. Her hair has gone bleach-white with age, and she has been blind for many years. Erdelan is still very keen, however, and Mattias and Adelaide often seek their mother’s sage advice.
Lucius
As the eldest son of Mattias Luxxor, Lucius takes his noble responsibilities very seriously. This often puts him at odds with his more carefree little sister, and while the two fight a lot they do so out of care for one another. Mattias has entrusted Lucius with managing some of the Luxxors’ affairs in Aridala. Out of the Luxxors, Lucius is the least interested in Tovarian doctrine, believing that it has the potential to undermine their legitimacy with the godking of Nalathesh.
Marcus
The middle child of Mattias and Puri Luxxor, Marcus is also a playable character in the Legends of MythCraft magazine (vol. 1). Marcus is the most vocal among his family about Tovarian doctrine, which is in essence about leaving people and places better than you found them. He travels throughout Nalathesh and beyond looking for adventure and looking for people or situations that need help.
Mattias
Mattias is the head of all domestic affairs related to the Luxxor family. He manages his family’s estate, tends to business in the capital, and ensures that traders and merchants who work with or for his family are well provided for. Mattias and Puri Luxxor have three children: Lucius, Marcus, and Reshi, in order from eldest to youngest.
Puri
Puri joined the Luxxor family when she married Mattias. Originally from a merchant family of middling wealth and questionable success, Mattias’s wedding to Puri caused something of a scandal among other Nalatheshi nobles. Although Puri did not initially offer the Luxxors powerful political connections, she has proven a skilled diplomat and she shares the Luxxor family’s conviction about separating the roles of church and state.
Reshi
The youngest of Mattias’s and Puri’s three children, Reshi has a carefree, sunny personality. She often gets into harmless mischief around the Luxxor estate and occasionally slips out into the markets of Aridala, where she has gotten into significantly more trouble on multiple occasions. Thus far, she has always managed to talk her way out of the messes that she finds herself in, but her parents worry that she doesn’t realize how she may one day find herself in very real danger. Reshi’s charming personality can also come across as naive, and while she always means well it is true that she has no experience with the hardships that many folk suffer on a daily basis.
Reza
Reza became part of the Luxxor family when he wed to Adelaide. Reza was already an accomplished traveling merchant, and Adelaide intended to expand the Luxxors’ business dealings to international trade partners, so together the pair quickly compounded the Luxxors’ influence to include portions of Hadla, Falth, Husk, Lesmishan, and of course Bridgemoor. Reza is kind and earnest, offering his opinion but deferring to Adelaide in matters that directly concern Luxxor wealth and reputation.
Reza has the stats of a Courtier (CC p. 219) with three ranks in the Nomad profession (choosing the Trader track). He also has a substantial amount of Goodwill (as shown below). Reza is typically protected by at least four ML 2-3 guards, typically Elf Archers (CC p. 222) or Veteran Soldiers (CC p. 236).
Reza’s Goodwill:
- Academic: 2
- Aristocratic: 8
- Mercantile: 8
- Militant: 0
- Religious: -1
- Social: 6
- Underworld: -4
- Nalatheshi Commoners: 7
- Nalatheshi Monarchy/Religious Orders: -2
- Nalatheshi Traders/Merchants: 10