House Walon

History

When the country of Aelmyr was still expanding during the second age, the region now known as Westpoint was mainly inhabited by a handful of dwarven clans. The dwarves were referred to as Moon Dwarves and inhabited The Wishbone Mountains. They lived an isolated existence, mining for rare gems to use in their rituals to the moon goddess. Legend says they were gifted with special arcane knowledge and were excellent practitioners of the arcane arts. The Moon Dwarves were very xenophobic and kept many slaves.

The Aelmyrian Kingdom tried to parlay with the dwarves to no avail and the conflict let to a mutually devastating bloodbath. The Aelmyrian king at the time managed to turn infiltrate the mountains and support a resistance within the slaves. One of these slaves was Cantios Walon, a human man in his 60's, who had spent his lives studying the arcane and was quite the accomplished wizard. He managed to break free from his chains one night and assassinate the king of the Moon Dwarves. The Aelmyrian forces were soon victorious and the king made Cantios Walon Lord of Westpoint.

His family has since then de facto ruled the region, even though governing body consist of a council of elders. The council consists of the headmasters of each magical school. and is supposed to act technocratically and based on science. The Walons founded the first and largest of the arcane colleges in Aeldun, specialized in evocation magic.