User:Truthwatch3r/House Ladrian
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|home=[[Elendel]]
|era=Post [[Catacendre]]
|world=Scadrial
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|books=[[Mistborn Era 2]]
}}
House Ladrian is a major socio-political entity on Scadrial after the ascension of Harmony.[1] It is built by the descendants of Breeze.[2] 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.[3] Located at Sixteen Ladrian Place,[4] the mansion is an imposing four-story building sporting several balconies and surrounded by a gated metal fence.[5] It is built of ivy-covered stone and brick with large windows.[4] 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.[5][4]
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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.[6]
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.[7][8]
Servants
Servants employed in various positions related to service to the mansion or the High Lord include:
Holdings
Just after the Origin, House Ladrian consists of a few thousand individuals. Over the next three hundred years, the house grows to include anyone who works on its properties or in its foundries. These people depend on the house's high lord to set their wages and to determine other factors of their lifestyle. They are considered members of the house with full rights only after a generation or two.[1] House Ladrian employs some twenty thousand people as of 341 PC,[4] including mostly forge workers and seamstresses.[9] The house either directly pays these workers or oversees a manager who pays them.[10] The foundries regularly ship steel and other products via railway.[9] In total, the house owns between two and three percent of the land in the city.[4]
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 raise 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 during this time.[10]
Politics
The High Lord of the house has a seat on the city Senate, where he represents all of the citizens of Elendel who either work for his house or live on his house's property.[10] House Ladrian keeps a close eye on the business dealings of the other houses of Elendel, they being largely competitors.[1]
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.[5] 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.[9] After their engagement, Wax successfully uses Steris' funds to get the house out of most of its debts. He is able to avoid foreclosures, which allows him time to wait for other investments to pay off. As a result, the house once again becomes one of the wealthiest in Elendel and regains much of its influence.[11]
In addition to this, when Claude Aradel publicly arrests Governor Replar Innate and then goes after the various city lords with whom the governor had conducted shady deals, House Ladrian and its allies remain untouched due to Wax's policy of only conducting business with people of repute. Many consider this a major political victory.[12]
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
- ↑ a b c The Alloy of Law chapter 3#
- ↑ The Final Empire chapter 17#
- ↑ Map of Elendel
- ↑ a b c d e The Alloy of Law chapter 7#
- ↑ a b c The Alloy of Law chapter 1#
- ↑ Shadows of Self chapter 2#
- ↑ The Alloy of Law chapter 4#
- ↑ The Alloy of Law chapter 5#
- ↑ a b c The Alloy of Law chapter 2#
- ↑ a b c Shadows of Self chapter 6#
- ↑ Shadows of Self chapter 9#
- ↑ Shadows of Self epilogue#
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