THE POWERS · THE ASHEN WASTES

House Ashwake

The Asheni house that keeps the ash-fires banked and fed on schedule, not thrown wide — the settled counterweight to the Covenant's zealotry, and the surest seat on the Ashen Moot.

Where the Ash Covenant burns everything it can drag to the pyres, House Ashwake tends the old hearth-fires the proper way: banked at dusk, fed at dawn, never let to run wild. Three generations of Ashwake elders have sat the Ashen Moot's council of House elders, arbitrating forge-rights and lineage-claims the Covenant's schismatics walked away from a generation back. The house's wealth is unglamorous — banked embers sold to every hearth in the Wastes that can't keep its own fire through a bad night — but it is real, and it does not run out.

KIND

house

HEADQUARTERS

Ashwake Hearthhold

LEADER

Elder Korveth Ashwake

JOINABLE

yes

Connected

Elder Korveth AshwakeCHARACTER · Korveth is the sitting elder of House Ashwake.Ashwake HearthholdPLACE · House Ashwake's seat is the Hearthhold.House VandahlFACTION · The four Great Houses court the same standing on the…House DeepveinFACTION · The four Great Houses court the same standing on the…House FarroadFACTION · The four Great Houses court the same standing on the…The Ash CovenantFACTION · House Ashwake is the settled counterweight the Coven…

Type Fields

kindhouse

headquartersplace.ashwake-hearthhold

leadercharacter.elder-korveth-ashwake

joinableyes

ranksHearth-Hand, Ember-Keeper, Banked Voice, Hearth-Warden, Ashwake's Ember

goalsOut-seat the Covenant's sympathizers on the Ashen Moot, Corner the banked-ember trade across the Wastes, Prove the old hearth-law still holds without the Covenant's fire

valuespatience, thrift, lineage

axis_profile{"tradition":-0.6,"law":0.4,"ambition":-0.2,"mercy":0.2}

disputes{"name":"Bank It or Burn It","summary":"A younger cousin-line argues the house's caution has let the Covenant define what it means to be Asheni in the wider Vale's eyes — better to fight fire with a fire of their own than keep quietly winning council votes nobody outside the Wastes ever hears about. The elders hold that outliving the Covenant, not out-shouting it, is the whole point.","sides":["the elders (patience is the house's only real weapon)","the cousin-line (quiet virtue nobody sees might as well not exist)"]}

All Relationships (6)

leads

←Elder Korveth Ashwake — Korveth is the sitting elder of House Ashwake.

located_in

→Ashwake Hearthhold — House Ashwake's seat is the Hearthhold.

rival_of

←House Vandahl — The four Great Houses court the same standing on the Vale's political stage — no two of them can both be seen to rise.
→House Deepvein — The four Great Houses court the same standing on the Vale's political stage — no two of them can both be seen to rise.
→House Farroad — The four Great Houses court the same standing on the Vale's political stage — no two of them can both be seen to rise.

enemy_of

→The Ash Covenant — House Ashwake is the settled counterweight the Covenant's schismatics broke from a generation back.

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