House of Nerrolar

The House of Nerrolar, a southern Benacian offshoot of the Shirerithian Line of Mortis, which occupied an eminent position in both Shireroth and Minarboria for many years. Founded by Kaiser Mors IV, who had taken on the epithet Nerrolar - "Arbiter" - and later adopted it as a sort of surname, the House consists of Mors himself, and "any descendants that may be derived from my undead flesh".

While Mors himself is not confirmed to be permanently dead and may therefore technically produce other descendants in the future, as matters stand his only known eligible descendants have consisted of the royal house of Tiěyá, which at Minarboria's height was one of the Empire's Cibolan territories. At the fall of the Empire, the remaining membership of the House fled to Kalgachia; the current heir is a citizen there. With the apparent death of Mortis heir, and Minarborian Second State Arborist, Shyriath Farstrider during the fall of Minarboria, it appears that the Nerrolars may now also represent the entirety of the Line of Mortis.

The Sword of Death, a Mortis heirloom which was in Mors' possession while Kaiser, was later given to Shyriath, who in turn carried it with him to Minarboria. It was apparently stolen back by Mors prior to the fall of Minarboria, and may possibly remain within Kalgachi territory.

Mors Nerrolar

Born Mors Letifer Funestus of Mortis. After his second abdication as Kaiser of Shireroth, he became known as Mors Nerrolar, by which name he went thereafter. In Tiěyá, where for a time he ruled as a warlord, he was known unofficially as Pàn Sǐrén 判死人.

Pàn Shuānghuā

Born Geliflora Segovia Nerrolar. Spending a substantial portion of her childhood in Tiěyá, she chose the Tiěyánese personal name Pàn Shuānghuā 判霜花 in adulthood; however, she was better known as the Sàohuáng Queen, the use of personal names being taboo for royalty.

Pàn Tiǎomín

Pàn Tiǎomín 判窕珉, titled the Royal Princess Guāngmíng, was born in 62 AL at the Royal Palace in Héchéng, capital of Tiěyá. The first child of the Sàohuáng Queen, under Tiěyá's Basic Law she was her mother's heir. The Queen, believing firmly in the virtue of learning by immersion, gently banished her from the palace in her teens to spend several years living among the common people and holding down an everyday job; having survived this, she returned to begin her tutelage in statecraft and to be rendered into lichdom. She was later appointed by her mother to oversee the Tiěyánese colonies in Nordmark, a possession under the jurisdiction of Empress Lyssansa. In 112 AL, she married Zhāng Xiǎogǎn 張小桿, a bureaucrat in her service.

By 128 AL, the degeneration of Minarboria and the loss of many lichly civil servants caused the collapse of the Nordmark administration, and the pair fled back to Héchéng, which they administered in the name of the Queen (who, at the time, was in Minarboria proper, searching for her lost father). There, fearing for the future, they submitted genetic material to the Royal Creche; their son, Kǎi​xù, was decanted the following year. As conditions continued to worsen even within Tiěyá itself, the royal couple began to realize that Cibola was lost, and, in desperation, sent their son in 138 AL to Minarboria, where they hoped the Queen or the Empress would be able to protect him.

The Royal Princess Guāngmíng and her husband remained in Héchéng until at least 140 AL, where they were last known to be in the Royal Palace. It is believed that, when they felt their end nearing, they laid themselves to rest in the crypt there; certainly they were either unable or unwilling to object when human authorities took authority in the name of a resurgent Treisenberg, or when the same authorities disestablished Tiěyá.

Pàn Kǎi​xù

Pàn Kǎi​xù 判凱續, titled the Royal Prince Ānxiáng, was born in 129 AL at the Royal Palace in Héchéng, capital of Tiěyá. The only son of the Royal Princess Guāngmíng, and the only grandson of the Sàohuáng Queen.

In Kalgachia, he went by his personal name, with the orders of the names switched for cultural familiarity; mispronunciation led to him being persistently referred to as "Cadgy" Pan.

Chlorocyphida Pan

Legally born Chlorocyphida Pan at the insistence of her mother, she was nonetheless privately christened Pàn Qīnglíng 判蜻蛉 by her father.