House of Alstion

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House of Alstion Alstion coat of arms Country: Oren Previous Name: House of Horen Title(s): Prince of Alstion Duke of Alba Duke of Furnestock Duke of Corazon Duke of Balemena Count Palatine of Jrent Count of Enswerp Count of Thesmer Founder: John I, Holy Orenian Emperor Current Head: John Alexander, Prince of Alstion Ethnicity: Heartlander Cadet Branches: House of Marna

The House of Alstion (Common: Alstion; High Imperial: Johannes) is a Human house formed upon the dissolution of the House of Horen.

History

As House of Horen

While the House of Horen was founded by Horen himself, and can be traced back to the first realms of Man, the House of Alstion is traced back only to the oft-quoted founder of the Fifth Empire, John I. Born in exile in Pronce, Aeldin, and living within the court of the Chivay governor there for much of his younger years, his sailing to Oren would change the course of Human history for generations, leading to a span of over a hundred years of Johannian dominance.

The Horen Restoration of 1526, orchestrated by Charles Henry, known as the Polycarp, would see the assassination of King Guy of Oren and coronation of John I as Holy Orenian Emperor. His reign was marked by a series of scandals, wars, and plots against the Imperial Crown, though doubling the size of the Empire in his time. His untimely death would be noted by many as a chief reason for The Anarchy, a time of massive instability within the Empire. His succession laws, however, and the titleage afforded his line, continue to be used by his descendants to modernity.

John II would not fare so well. Under him the nobility grew in power, and his incendiary nature, which garnered him the moniker 'the Quarreler' among opponents, would eventually be his undoing. His eccentricities and oft strange behaviors discomforted his vassals, and on the 16th of Sigismund's End, 1568, after eight long years of incapability and a regency headed by his son, which saw such events as the Riga War, he abdicated and retired to the countryside.

John III's reign is remembered for his closing of John I's many attempted conquests. His victories in the Riga War, the Axis War, and his subjugation of the War Uzg solidified the Empire's place on the global stage as the preeminent power, but whilst he was lauded as a war hero within the Empire, foreign states and recently subjugated vassals had deep-seated hatred of both him and his nation.

With John III's assassination and the beginning of the Year of Four Emperors, this hatred surfaced - his first son was slain by Andrew II of Hanseti-Ruska just two months after his coronation. His second son, Robert II, abdicated to John III's thirdborn, Philip Frederick. Just fourteen on the day of his coronation and eighteen in the first battles of the Coalition War, his loss at the Siege of Johannesburg, and his infamous thanhium-bomb explosion that destroyed the city and landscape for leagues in any direction, would mark the end of the Fifth Empire.

The Sixth Empire founded just under twenty years later would only see glimpses of the zenith reached by the Fifth Empire - John V's rule was marred by internal turmoil, external losses, and a succession nearly usurped by a returned Robert II (called in his later years Robert of Marna and styling himself Lord Protector). Peter's rule was little better; while he defeated the House of Romstun, he lost the War of the Beards in the tenth year of his reign, leading to his abdication. His son, John VI, would be assassinated in his throne room by forces of Canonius Horen, ending the Sixth Empire and with it, Johannian rule. In the coming years, the vast majority of Johannians would either be executed or die mysteriously, leaving only the line of Charles Elliot alive.

Charles Elliot as head of the line of the Johannians worked with the line of Pertinax, securing its survival into modernity. His statesmanship and close relations with the various Emperors of Man would gain for his family the ear of the Throne, and his work in orchestrating the rise of the new empire solidified their place in the new nobility. He is the last patriarch of the Johannian lines not to be included in the Dissolution of Horen in 1721.

As House of Alstion

Six Johannians were born Horen and changed their surnames to Alstion in the Dissolution of Horen, all relatively well-known in the Empire. John Alexander, Prince of Alstion, patriarch of the newly formed descendant house, was the father of the Empress. Of Charles' sons, Alexander Frederick had been a diplomat and advisor to the crown before his travels to Aeldin and abdication to John Alexander. Thomas Elliot, called the Lonely by his relatives, was one of the most famed duelists of the Empire. His thirdborn, Jamie Oliver, was known for his culinary expertise. Finally, his youngest, the legitimized bastard William, was by the age of fifteen famed for being a preeminent statesman of the realm and among its greatest architects, and is thought to have penned or helped in the writing of over half the documents of the Empire.

John Alexander's brokering of the peace in the War of the Two Emperors would help to prevent an even more protracted war, and his rocky marriage to Vivienne d'Amaury would little affect his ability to create heirs; his firstborn, Adeline of Alstion, would become Empress, and his child Henry Stephen given the courtesy title of Duke of Furnestock.

Historical Coats of Arms

As House of Horen

Whilst ruling the Holy Orenian Empire, the Johannians took up the sigil of the three-headed dragon, holding in each arm clockwise a sceptre, a globus cruciger, an olive branch, and a blade.

As House of Alstion

Whilst ruling the Principality of Alstion, the Johannians took up the sigil of the Aeldinic dragon, gold upon a party per pale field of purpure and white, within its mouth a red Marnan serpent.

Notable Members

John I, Holy Orenian Emperor
John II, Holy Orenian Emperor
High Pontiff Daniel III
John III, Holy Orenian Emperor
John IV, Holy Orenian Emperor
Robert II, Holy Orenian Emperor
Philip I, Holy Orenian Emperor
John V, Holy Orenian Emperor
Peter II, Holy Orenian Emperor
John VI, Holy Orenian Emperor
Prince Charles of Alstion
John Alexander, Prince of Alstion
William, Lord of Jrent

Patriarchs of Alstion

Name	Portrait	Birth Parentage	Marriage(s) Issue	Death	Coat of Arms	Title(s)
John I Johannes Fridericus Orenii		10 Horen's Calling 1498 Pronce, Agathor First son of Charles Henry Horen	Adelheid de Sola John Sigismund Alexander Louis Philippa Maria Charles Francis	12 Tobias' Bounty, 1547 Eroch River, Vandoria aged 49		Holy Orenian Emperor King in Oren King of Savoy King of Kaedrin King of Haense King of Renatus King of Salvus
John II Johannes Sigismundus Orenii		1 Owyn's Flame, 1521 Dour Watch, Istria First son of John I and Adelheid of Istria	Amelie Staunton Arielle Horen-Rothesay John Owyn Alexander Sigismund Madeleine Francesca Eleanor Theresa Joseph Frederick Alexandra Maria	25 Owyn's Flame, 1595 Johannesburg, Oren aged 74		Holy Orenian Emperor King in Oren King of Savoy King of Kaedrin King of Haense King of Renatus King of Salvus