House Valdar

Ancient Lore
House Valdar: The original ruling house of Rivendare. The Valdars were the rulers of Rivendare before and after Zhan's landing, upon his landing they were in the middle of a bloody war with the Gray's of Graywood (Trenan), one which they were soundly losing, when Zhan landed with his mighty host and began building his cities the Valdars struck a deal with him and in return for crushing the Gray's, the Valdars would become Vassals of Zhan's Kingdom, Zhan accepted and after the war Rivendare was completely annexed by Biyovsk after a royal marriage between house Makov and house Valdar. The people of Rivendare had elvish features before Zhan's landing and there was a divide between the higher status more elvish humans and the lesser class of humans with nearly nothing resembling elves. Before Zhan's Landing the Valdars looked more elvish than human and were tall and slender with long blond hair and bright green eyes, they had on average a full foot over most humans that landed with Zhan and were considered extremely attractive, however this was their genetic downfall as after Zhan married one, every Lord in the Kingdom wanted to marry one as well and very rapidly their family lost their elvish features and became just slightly taller humans on avergage, this helped disrupt the class structure quite a bit and eventually erased it entirely just as the elvish features were erased entirely as well. The Valdars remain close friends of the Makov family, and were the first House to recognise Zhan as a God after his sacrifice, they've served as regents many times before and the Erutainim family, closely related to the Valdars of Rivendare has served as the scribes of the nation since the unification.