User:Truthwatch3r/House Ladrian

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|era=[[Final Empire]]
|world=Scadrial
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|books=[[Mistborn Era 2]]
}}

House Ladrian is a major socio-political entity on Scadrial after the ascension of Harmony. It is built by the descendants of Breeze. Notable members include Breeze, Waxillium, and Edwarn.

Ladrian Mansion

House Ladrian owns and operates out of the Ladrian Mansion, which is in the Fourth Octant of Elendel. Located at Sixteen Ladrian Place, the mansion is an imposing four-story building sporting several balconies and surrounded by a gated metal fence. It is built of ivy-covered stone and brick with large windows. Despite lacking expansive grounds, the mansion employs a grounds staff to care for both a front and a back garden, the latter of which has a patio.

The entryway of the mansion has a marble floor with silver inlays. The study, where Waxillium spends much of his time while in residence, lies on the upper floor and has its doorway open onto a balcony in the entryway.

The House also owns a ballroom, suitable for large events entertaining some three to four hundred people, in a separate location of the octant for a period of time before selling it off during Edwarn's stint as head of the House.

Holdings

House Ladrian employs some twenty thousand people, including forge workers and seamstresses. The foundries regularly ship steel and other products via railway. In total, the house owns between two and three percent of the land in the city.

During the era of Replar Innate's governorship, Waxillium investigates working conditions at some of House Ladrian's factories and finds them unacceptable. He fires the overseers and replaces them with new men willing to hire more workers for shorter shifts, but then finds that he must up wages so the new employees can live on their salary. This in turn causes the price of their goods to increase. The situation among House Ladrian's holdings are an indication of the broader issues of the city of Elendel.

Politics

The High Lord of the house has a seat on the city Senate. House Ladrian keeps a close eye on the business dealings of the other Houses of Elendel, they being largely competitors.

House Ladrian has historically been a powerful house, though the actions of Edwarn Ladrian as the fifteenth High Lord brings the house to near destitution. As a result, Waxillium Ladrian initiates talks with Lord Jackstom Harms with the intent of marrying his daughter, Steris. In uniting the houses, House Ladrian would receive badly needed funds while House Harms would gain an increase in notoriety and the possibility of a male heir.

Family Tree

House Ladrian family tree

Breeze

Allrianne

Unknown

Edwarn

Unknown

Unknown

Unknown

Jackstom Harms

Unknown

Hinston

Telsin

Wax

Steris Harms

Marasi Colms

Key		Parents/Children		Siblings		Ancestors/Descendants		Marriage		Partnership/relationship
		Deceased

Notes

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