Chapter 187: Kellerman Earldom
CH187 Kellerman Earldom
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The Kellerman Family were a noble house whose fief bordered both Earl Drake Fury’s Dankrot Plains to the south & west and the harsh Ironmourn Desert to the north.
Unlike the Fury lineage, the Kellerman Family’s power was consolidated within the main branch. Their lesser branches held only political positions but no direct claim to the fief land itself.
Officially, the entire Kellerman territory was an Earldom. Yet it stood at the very threshold of ascending into a Marquisate. A sliver more land—and the title of Marquis would be within reach.
Publicly, the Kellermans were viewed as an honourable family, with over five centuries of legacy, and goodwill among both commoners and nobles alike.
Their only open and longstanding rival were the so-called ’upstarts’ of the Fury Family—especially the Fury patriarch, Earl Drake Fury.
The Kellermans had once been strong allies of the Schaumer Family—the very house that Drake Fury annihilated in his rise to power.
It was well-known that the Schaumer Earldom had been a vassal of the Reichert Duchy. What wasn’t as widely known was that the Schaumers had succeeded in drawing the Kellermans into the Reicherts’ influence as well.
In return, the Kellermans had been promised support—military and political—to expand their holdings and rise into a full Marquisate, just as the Schaumers had been poised to do.
But those dreams had turned to ash when Drake Fury and his Wolves of War swept through the Schaumer territories like a storm of death.
With his union to the Holt Family—and through them, ties to the Machholts—the Reichert Duchy had prudently withdrawn its ambitions from the Northwestern region.