Liafiel Family
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Liafiel was a family from Enmalin which worked themselves into lower nobility by the work of Folwin Liafiel with his ruthless and borderline legal methods.
Family tree of the Liafiel family
Ryfon Liafiel ==+== ?
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Folwin Liafiel ==+== Ayen Keahorn
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Clanire Faenorin ==+== Luthais Liafiel Selphie Liafiel ==+== Cornos Zumven
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Alwin Liafiel Vesryn Liafiel Ruven Liafiel
Members of the Liafiel family
Folwin Liafiel
Folwin Liafiel was born in Enmalin on Conder Isle, on 09. October 984. His father was Ryfon Liafiel, who worked for the Vivaldi Bank, nothing is known about his mother. At a young age Folwin learned from his father about finances and how money works, as soon as he earned his first coin he already invested it.
In 1017 he started to work as a teller at the Vivaldi Bank, thanks to a recommendation of by his father. Over the years he worked himself up to be an accountant for richer clients, who handled with big amounts of money. Folwin found small extra fees and loopholes to enrichen himself with small sums here and there. Nobody ever found out about this until much later, as his clients didn’t bother to check the small numbers.
Folwin decided that it was time to be independent in 1188, and he quit from the bank and started a small company that did trading of all sorts of things. With the small fortune he had saved up and all the contacts from his banking career nothing stood between him and his success.
In July 1209 he married Ayen Keahorn, the daughter of a bureaucrat, which Folwin saw as an opportunity to climb up the social ladder even higher. As the pair was invited to the yearly bureaucrats dinner it was the appropriate time for the Liafiel family to receive a family crest, which was designed in November 1209 by an old family friend, the painter Khiiral Fenynore. With his business running smoothly and the offspring settled, he started to plan the future of his children. His firstborn would start a career in politics and become head of the family once Folwin died, his second born would take over the family business and support the family financially.
They soon moved into a bigger house and had two children, Luthais and Selphie. As Selphie didn’t fit into the role of the second son, the plan for her was to be married into a noble family to further strengthen their influence.
Over the time his business expanded as did his network of trading connections all around the globe. Nothing happened in the Democracy without him knowing about it. His name spread, and he was becoming known for his trustfulness and honesty. Folwin was confident into his own abilities and that he had cleaned up all dirty laundry in his past, the career of his son could start, the next step for the family up the ladder.
Luthais Liafiel
Luthais Liafiel was born on 11. April 1217. His father took care that he could study politics at the Elvish Academy. In 1322 he started his political career, standing in for better trading relations with other nations, and racist policies within the own country. Thanks to his father’s trading network it was possible for him to process information even before they were officially announced. TODO: What position in politics? In 1433 Luthais married Clanire Faenorin, the daughter of a nobleman (TODO rly?), making him the first in the family to wear a title (TODO what title? One of the lowest probably). Three years later their first son Alwin was born.
As soon as he was informed of the Garlars Day in 1435 he travelled to Adwick to see if anything can be saved and brought back Ruven to teach him how to be an elf. Despite the disapproval of his father, Ruven was accepted as a part of the family.
1506 TODO political career? Other steps?
Alwin Liafiel
Alwin Liafiel was born on 30. January 1436. As the firstborn son of Luthais his career was predestined from the beginning, he was to become a knight for the Democracy to engrave the name Liafiel even further into the books of history, and later carry on the family name with an appropriate title. He studied at the Military Academy and is currently occupied as an officer (TODO rly?) in the Militia, working towards the goal of becoming a member of the Protectors of the Seas on his 100th birthday.
Vesryn Liafiel
Vesryn Liafiel was born on 09. Mai 1443. As the second son he could finally take the role Selphie was to have and take over the business. He studied the trades at the Elvish Academy In 1491 after some successful ventures on his own he joined his grandfather on the board of the family company, learning all the secrets of the business from his grandfather.
Selphie Liafiel
Selphie Liafiel was born in on 03. December 1228. She studied at the Elvish Academy and later started working as a herbalist around the island. This is when she met Cornos Zumven. They fell deeply in love, but Folwin forbid her to be wed to a human. Cornos didn’t care about her family, and they met from time to time anyways.
Selphie became pregnant and after she gave birth to Ruven, it became clear that the father must have been a human. She and Ruven fled to Cornos’ hometown Adwick where they lived a happy life until she and Cornos both got killed 49 years later on Garlars Day.
Ruven Liafiel
Ruven is the son of Selphie, a trained forest ranger and excellent scout. Due to his mixed race he was never able to become anything in the military. Because of Alwin’s success and good health no one believes that the family heritage is in danger, Ruven would probably die before all of them anyways.
Main article: Ruven Liafiel
