Category:Blackburn-Bruce Family

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Purportedly founded by the descendants of expertalchemists Ian Bruce and Brian Blackburn^[1], the Blackburn-Bruce family was a family of noveau riche who parleyed wealth^[2] into ownership of Blackburn's Crossing (along with a portion of the Arden River)^[3] and noble status.^[2] Famous for their interest in alchemy, they fled when public opinion turned against them in the wake of the Apparatus incident (579 BC). Even prior to that disaster, rumors spread of the Bruce-Blackburns' perverse experiments conducted in the countryside, enabling the family's competitors to make inroads against the Blackburn-Bruce family's interests before the Apparatus incident^[2].

Legacy

Ian Bruce and Brian Blackburn are credited with transforming Blackburn's Crossing from an unnamed flyspeck of a community into a notable trading hub (at least as far as Mordent goes) with only Mordentshire as its possible better. Their descendants solidified their alliance by fusing into one family and carrying on their businesses. Today, Blackburn's Crossing holds its head high with the knowledge it is the point of Mordentish entry for many newcomers to the country. The Crossing is also one of the few places cosmopolitan and accepting enough to see people of different races living within^[1].

Despite the success of the Blackburn-Bruces in Blackburn's Crossing, they nonetheless remain figures of nightmare in the Mordentish consciousnous. (Blackburn's Crossing itself is regarded as a place of greed and loose morality by many Mordentish people^[1].) From time to time, rumor swells with the purported discovery of a Blackburn-Bruce and their alchemical abomination, but such discussion just as rapidly tethers off with the purported disappearance of said individual.^[2]

Now but a husk of its former self, the family manor still stands, straddling the Arden River^[1].

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