House Fairstar

House Fairstar is an ancient family of weapons-master summoners and privateer merchants originating in Sweorota. Its motto is “One sky, one family.”

Palance and the Fairstar siblings, the merchant fleet, shipwrights, and phase-drive travel.

Biography

Thousands of years old; global shipping/trade organization; custom airships with phase drives and prohibited military-grade armaments; MCC persecutes Lorence; family flees to Bosco; motto “One sky, one family.”

Appearance

Family hallmark: hair half black and half white; most have piercing sea-blue eyes

Magic and abilities

Weapons-master summoning tradition

Relationships

Solomon Fairstar and Amelia Fairstar are parents of nine siblings

Further history and details

Motto

“One sky, one family.” Exact canonical wording.

Parents

Marquis Solomon Fairstar and Amelia Fairstar.

Origin

Sweorota, central continent north of Anubia.

Age of house

Thousands of years old.

Magical tradition

Summoner mages, specifically weapons masters.

Family appearance

All nine siblings have their father’s half-black/half-white hair; most have piercing sea-blue eyes.

Merchant organization

One of the largest shipping and trade organizations in the world.

Historical role

Privateer merchants operating at the edge of the law; sometimes called pirates, but no one has proven the allegations.

Phase drives

Magically powered engines integrated with conventional engines; jump through spatial wormholes to travel vast distances in minutes.

Shipwrights

Family-owned shipwrights design and build vessels; role is prestigious because designs are not restricted and materials can be acquired regardless of legality.

MCC crisis

Magic Control Council of Sweorota repeatedly kidnaps Lorence due to banned white miasma magic, torturing and experimenting on him.

Flight to Bosco

Family attacks MCC facility, rescues Lorence, flees Sweorota, and joins White Sea Mage Guild.

Children

Palance 28; Toby 28; Gideon 26; Jennifer 26; Ambrose 26; Lana 25; Austeel 23; Ranier 23; Lorence 18.

Palance/Ephraim

Palance bargains to marry Baron Ephraim VonVoss for Pergrandian protection for Austeel and the family from MCC pursuit; the marriage becomes loving and happy.

Toby and the Reaper

Toby Fairstar is the second son, Palance's twin, and a Weapons-master Summoner specializing in heavy artillery. He captains the Reaper, an enforcer-class guard ship for the family fleet. The high-speed, heavily armed black airship has 100 passenger cabins, two large cargo bays, docking ports for six strike ships, four overcharged main engines, military-grade weapons, and a phase engine. Each Fairstar child receives a custom ship designed from birth and given at sixteen.

Toby Fairstar and his personal airship, the Reaper.

Austeel and the Starluna

Austeel Fairstar is Ranier's twin and a Weapons-master Summoner. At 23 in his character reference, he captains the Starluna, a high-speed privateer airship with the celestial ship spirit Argo. Its navy-blue, constellation-patterned hull has a bird-of-prey design. It has two turbocharged engines, a phase drive for wormhole travel, a front-mounted Jupiter cannon, two strike ships, two cargo bays, and twelve passenger cabins. Austeel also contracts a Hydra spirit and summons legendary weapons including Asi and Excalibur.

Austeel, the Starluna, spirit companions, and weapons.

Gideon and the Hurricane

Gideon Fairstar, a triplet with Ambrose and Jennifer, captains the Hurricane, a 70-foot Corsair-class airship. A Weapons-Master Summoner, shipwright, lawyer, and strategist, he contracts over 200 specialized drones and three armored mech suits: Aeris (reconnaissance/flight), Aether (assault/heavy), and Nemesis (defense/shield). The Hurricane has a phase drive, two turbocharged engines, a forward Jupiter cannon, two strike ships, two cargo bays, twelve crew cabins, and advanced defenses.

Gideon and the Hurricane, with his drones and mech suits.

White Sea story

The escape begins with eighteen-year-old Austeel rescuing twelve-year-old Lorence and drawing the MCC fleet away aboard the damaged Starluna. Lorence reaches White Sea; Palance negotiates a Pergrandian marriage alliance to protect the family. These are ages at this point in the story, rather than replacements for the later ages recorded above. (White Sea, Chapters 1–4.)

The family's great city-ship, the Foundation, helps establish new docks and working facilities at Eventide Bay after their displacement. Solomon subsequently brings the family together in Bellum to discuss joining the Pirate Lords. (White Sea, Chapters 12 and 19.)

Jennifer, also called Jenny, is a sword-specialist Weaponsmaster Summoner. After Lucille Alderis's death, the existing Points choose her as the new Starbringer. She joins the restored Six Points in their appeal to the gods. (White Sea, Chapters 36–37.)