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The House of Cliza

The House of Cliza are human-wild boar descendants of Turiacus. The House governed the land of Lusibriga for hundreds of years until its population was slaughtered and the House defeated during the War of the Winding Rivers, which was fought against the human tribes of the river Cynanas. The war lasted twenty-two years and left the House decimated. The few surviving members of the House went into exile over the mountains, taking with them an expansive library of ancient manuscripts. Many of the House’s belongings were lost during the war, but the Gloves of a Thousand Silver Hairs survived. The gloves are said to have been made by an ancestor of Cliza after they rescued a long-haired silver lynx that had been wounded by human hunters. The lynx remained a friend of the House and after many years, during a silver full moon, they completely shed their hair and transformed into a legless lizard. Those hairs were then spun into gloves. Each single hair is imbued with a powerful spell, which is cast the moment a hair is pulled off the gloves.

Cliza

Cliza is the head of the House of Cliza. Cliza is a highly skilled warrior and military strategist and is the caretaker of their family’s precious library. Cliza is also a weaver and once, in a state of trance, possessed by the spirit of Aranea, a human-spider deity, they weaved a magical corset that gives the wearer superstrength. Throughout the years, Cliza’s corset has suffered damage in battle and every repair has weakened its strength. Until Cliza can again summon the spirt of Aranea, they keep the corset safe, wrapped in a cloth of gold spun by Theia. Cliza was once engaged to Vladik, a Slavic warrior chieftain, but Cliza called it off after they found out that Vladik was having an affair with Cliza’s rival Oretta, and with whom he fathered a child, Orella. Cliza has no heirs. Cliza’s mission is to avenge the death of her ancestors, who were murdered by human warriors, and reclaim their land. During the sacking of Cliza’s queerdom, they were abducted and raped by an unknown warrior who transformed himself into a wolf. Cliza managed to escape with the help of a sorcerer, who shape-shifted into an owl, and blinded and killed the wolf with their poison-secreting talons.

Clizette and Clizilde are Cliza’s lead warriors. They are in a triangular relationship with Cliza, but in order to avoid Cliza’s jealousy, they keep their true love for each other secret. They come from a long-lived warrior class. They survived the first war that the House of Cliza fought with the Cynanas tribes and, along with Cliza, they also survived the battle of Transterrum, which they fought against the House of Oretta.

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