House Deltario

House Deltario

Not to be Provoked...

Status:	Minor (Status 5)
Seat:	Dawn's Point
Current Lord:	Lord Angelo Deltario
Current Lady:	None
Realm:	Dorne
Heir:	Vysaeria Targaryen-Deltario
Liege:	House Martell
Cadet Branch:	XXX
Vassals:	House Daytower, House Lukas
Founder:	Deltin Deltario
Founded:	Andal Invasion
House Traits
Defense:	30 (0 Remaining)
Influence:	43 (43 Remaining)
Lands:	45 (0 Remaining)
Law:	28
Population:	19
Power:	52 (0 Remaining)
Wealth:	62 (0 Remaining)

XXX

Domains

• House Fortune Rolls: +4D6 (+2D6(Banners)+ 2D6 {(7= +3(Maester)+1(Fishery)+2(Mine)+3(Port)-2(Law)})
  • Wealth Increases: +2D6 {+1D3(Fishery/Market)+1D3(Mine)+1D3(Market/Port)+1(Market/Fishery)+1(Market/Mine)}
  • Population Decreases: -1 (Annual Festival)
• Whispers in the Dark: Spy Network Personage Wealth Holding. XXX (Wealth: 10)
  • Current Deployments: Sunspear, Sungold, and Yronwood
• Comfortable Lifestyle: Lifestyle Wealth Holding. XXX (Wealth: 5)

Dawn's Point

The domain of Dawn's Point is a gently rolling plains between the Sea of Dorne and the Dornish Marches. A short road called the Spur branches off from the Boneway leading here, and a fair-sized stream called the Tears of the Sand flows down out of these hills, terminating in Tear's End, an estuary. (Plains; Coast, Small Town, Stream, Road; Land: 34)

• Fishery: Estate Wealth Holding. The smallfolk of Dawn's Point are primarily fishers, working as communities to deploy massive nets from their small, maneuverable coracles. (Wealth: 5)
• Dawns Point Castle: Castle Defensive Holding. A beautiful fortification, with high walls made of red granite, and two smooth round towers flanking a golden doomed keep. The keep sports many terraces, balconies and wide ornate arches and is considered one of the most beautiful Castles of Dorne. (Defense 30 - +6 Unit Defense)
  • Maester XXX: Maester Personage Holding. XXX (Wealth: 10)
  • The Wordless: Elite Personal Guard. The Wordless are the deadly spear of the House. They have been employed by the Deltario's for nearly two centuries after Fygos Deltario ventured to Astapor to confirm stories of the warriors who defeated the 50,000 Dothraki. When he returned, he did so with first one hundred Wordless. Since that time, the Wordless have served as the Deltario Family's personal Guard and core infantry. The Wordless have their own training grounds and barracks within the Castle, removed from the those of the Master-at-Arms and the Garrison. The Wordless are renowned for their stoic silence, speaking only to the masters of the House, and only then when in private. It is said that the Wordless do not cryout in bloodlust or pain, nor are they given to the same wilds as other forces. They are heavily armored, each wearing dull green Scale and fight with a red spear, or with a red-gripped shortsword. (Power: 13)
    • Discipline: -6 • Defense: 2 • Armor: 6 (-3) • Damage: F6/M0 • Abilities: Athletics 5, Endurance 3, Fighting 5
  • Dawn's Point Garrison: Green Garrison. The Garrison stationed at Dawnsport is new and untested. Made up of those few Deltario warriors that survived the final battle against the Golden Company. With fewer than a dozen experienced fighting men returned, the Castle Guard set about recruiting and training. The men are eager to prove themselves to the Deltario's as their fathers and grandfathers have done. (Power: 3)
    • Discipline: 6/12 (outside Dawnsport) • Defense: 1 • Armor: 3 (-2) • Damage: F3/M0 • Abilities: Awareness 3, Endurance 2, Fighting 2
  • House Archers: Trained Archers. Unlike the garrison, the archers of the Deltario forces have been well trained, but have yet to see much fighting. (Power: 6)
    • Discipline: 9 • Defense: 1 • Armor: 2 (-1) • Damage: F1/M5LR • Abilities: Agility 3, Awareness 2, Marksman 4
• Dawnsport: Small Town. The town of Dawnsport grew in the shadow of the castle. While the town nearly surrounds the walls of the castle, much of the housing is localized on the western side of the fortification, shortly before the Tears turn brackish. The eastern side of the town is home to both the most wealthy of Dawnsport's Merchants as well as the establishments meant to serve sailors and other transients from Riggons Ribs (named for Riggon Deltario, who was lord when the Port was extended to all deep water ships). The town itself was once much larger, with nearly a third of the homes and shops remaining empty. The town once hosted a school known as the Candle, but with the decline of Deltario fortunes, the school has not been funded in many years. A notable feature of portside is the brothel Bed of Lillys which became famous during Darrak Deltario's rule, though currently, the brothel remains, somewhat independent of House Control. The towns exceptional markets, known simply as the Pens occupy the north side of the Castle, between the more residential hillside and the seeder portside. The Market also sits on the old road called the Spur which, at one time, connected to the Boneway, though in recent years much of the road has fallen into disrepair.
  • XXX: Annual Festival Lifestyle Wealth Holding. XXX (Wealth: 2)
  • Riggon's Ribs [Port (Settlement Wealth 10)]
  • The Pens [Market (Settlement Wealth 10)]

The Nine Claws

(Commonly known as The Nine) (Hills – Land 7) The Nine Claws are a series of Hills located some distance from Dawn's Point, and stand somewhat more eastern than the remaining hill ranges. It is here that the Tears of the Sand sprouts from its underground spring and flows gentlely down to the Point. Most notable, however are the ruins of Claw Keep, now known as Daemian's Doom. The keep once guarded the entrance to the Hill-Heart gold mine, and mining operations continue to work out of what few rooms remain standing.

- Daemian's Doom (Formerly known as Claw Keep) (Ruins – Land 3)

- The Tears of the Sand (Stream fed by Spring– Land 1)

- Hill-heart Mine [Mine (Estate Wealth 15)]

Members of the House

• Vysaeria Targaryen-Deltario: Heir of the House and Commander of Blades.
• Danyk Deltario: The Sandadder (House Ambassador and Master of Whispers)

Retainers of the House

• Ser XXX: (Known as The Hammer of Dawn) Tourney Champion
• Ser XXX: Master-At-Arms Attended by Squire Eldyn Lukas
• Ser XXX: Attended by Squire Wynton Daytower
• Jedik Sand: Captain of the Wordless, and Castellan of the House. Known as He Who Speaks, Jedik is the only one of the Wordless who routinely speaks to outsiders. Personally trained in his duties by one of the last remaining of the original Unsullied who founded the Wordless, Jedik has been drilled with the importance of obedience and ruthlessness. He has the look of a Salty Dornishman, although with strangely haunting, pale blue eyes.
• Maester Terrance: House Maester. The slow, steady clak clak of Maester Terrance's cane echoes through the halls of Dawn's Point Castle, presaging his arrival. Rail-thin, with a few whisps of white hair still clinging to his skull, Terrance's face is set in an almost perpetual frown. Though his devotion is unquestioned for his House of assignment, he has a reputation as being somewhat arrogant, with an arched eyebrow and dismissive sniff communicating his contempt. Nonetheless, his mind is adept and his loyalty unwavering to House Deltario. (53 years)
• Lucia Bramati: Steward. Inheritor of the courtesan name The Emerald Maiden, Lucia left Braavos to be with her lover, selling off her name and barque. She hopes to make a new life for herself in Westeros. Her paramour Danyk has helped her a great deal, finding a role as steward for her in House Deltario, for which she is grateful. (28 years)
• Falcone Bramati: Armsman. Lucia's older brother and a skilled Water Dancer, Falcone chose exile with his sister rather than lose contact with her. In return for his continuing lessons on the art of Water Dancing, Danyk has secured for him a place with his House.

History

• Ascent: +5 Influence, +2 Lands, +4 Power, +1 Wealth
• Favor: +5 Influence +4 Lands, +4 Law, +6 Power
• Ascent: +3 Influence, +5 Lands, +4 Power, +3 Wealth
• Windfall: +6 Defense, +10 Influence, +4 Lands, +2 Law, +1 Population, +8 Power, +11 Wealth
• Scandal: -1 Influence, -2 Lands, -2 Power
• Treachery: -2 Influence, -2 Law, +4 Power
• Infrastructure: +4 Defense, +6 Wealth
• Decline: -1 Influence, -2 Lands, -1 Power, -3 Wealth

• House Deltario began with the Andal's push into the deserts of Dorne. Considered one of the first Andal territories on the Sea of Dorne, the Deltario's have controlled Dawn's Point for thousands of years. Much of the Houses history is myth and fable and its true rise to power came with the Rhoynar. It was clear to Argus Deltario, Lord of the Coast, that Mors Martell and the Rhoynar forces clearly outmatched any other within the region, and when news reached Dawn's Point that these combined forces were on the march, Argus sailed immediately and was one of the first to swear to the new Prince. For his loyalty, Argus was awarded control of much of the western Coast of the Sea of Dorne.
• For nearly 400 years, the Deltario's retained control of this vast territory and were considered to be one of the most powerful and prosperous Houses in Dorne, rivaling the Yronwoods to the south. They held this territory for many decades into to the Targaryen attempts to conquer the region. Prior to Daeron I's successful conquest of the region, the Deltarios were admired for their vast trade empire, stretching as far as Astapor and Qarth, and became especially known for the exotic creatures they kept in Dawn's Point Castle. With the successful Targaryen conquest, House Deltario lost some of its control of the region, including House Wyl, whom had long since been one of their prized Banner Houses.
• Even still, the House remained powerful, but was not free of its own bitter treachery. Some seventy years ago during the reign of Aegon V the Unlikely, the Goldmine in the Nine Claws began to exhaust. Darrak Deltario, then Lord of the House, dispatched his trusted younger brother Daemian Deltario to oversee prospecting along the other hill ranges adjacent to the Nine and entrusted him with Claw Keep. The young Deltario took to the task with great fervor, as with the passing of Darrak's wife and child, Daemian was named heir. Within three months, a vast gold vein was discovered several miles from Sungold Hall. Suddenly renewed wealth poured into the great House and the Dawnsport seemed to be on the verge of becoming the Sunspear of the West.
• But just as this great windfall was fully blowing upon them, the House was struck by scandal. Without warning, Darrak Deltario remarried to a common girl, said to come from the Bed of Lillys (the Brothel not far from Riggon's Ribs). To complicate matters, the Lord announced that his new wife was with child. Outraged, Daemian seized Claw Keep, nearly half of the House army and rebelled. For two years, bitter fighting spilt Dornishmen blood upon the sand. Slowly though, Darrak and his Bannermen gained the advantage, cutting off Daemian from his Sungold supporters. They encircled the rebellious lord within Claw Keep and laid siege, but Daemian had prepared for the worst, and had stockpiled supplies within Hill-heart mine. Realizing that the siege would not drive Daemian to surrender, Darrak ordered his men to burn the keep with all inside. The burnt out ruins became known as Daemian's Doom, he then made his forces ready to attack Sungold.
• The Knights of Sungold, however, had not been idle. Realizing Daemian was defeated, the Sungolds had secretly sent overtures to the Yronwoods, pledging their loyalty and the wealth of their mine in exchange for the Houses protection. The Deltarios and the Yronwoods had been at odds for generations, leading to outright battle when the Yronwoods sided with the Daemon Blackfyre during his rebellion some forty years prior. When Darrak and his forces arrived, they were met by the forces of Yronwood, and saw Yronwood flag hung on the ramparts. Darrak demanded the traitorous Knights be handed over to him, and their lands returned, but the Yronwoods refused. His forces exhausted, Darrak had no choice but to return home.
• Veneta, Darrak's wife, bore him two sons, Davic and Linden. Linden was sent to family friends in Sunspear while he was still a boy. Darrak, fearful of another potential rebellion during Davic's reign, wished to ensure no challengers would be present. He died a short time later. Davic's rule was uneventful, though the house continued to decline slowly, that is until the Blackfyres returned to Westeros. When word reached of the Targaryan counter offensive in the Stepstones, the Deltarios were called to action. At the onset, Davic Deltario's ship was lost at sea, and his youngest son Mica died during the push through the Golden Company at the close of the war.