The Ravenwood family had ruled their eponymous domain for centuries. It was the seat of their power, the land of their ancestors, and the last bastion of their pride.
The castle in Ravenwood city was named Baldric Keep, in honor of a man whose legend had reached even the capital of the Valedorn Empire decades ago: the Guardian of the Imperial Frontier, the strongest warrior the Ravenwood family had ever produced, Sky Knight Baldric Ravenwood.
In that era of strife, the Ravenwood family had ascended to the rank of Marquis. But after Baldric's death, they failed to produce another Great Knight capable of holding the line alone. Inevitably, the house of Ravenwood began its slow decline, eventually dwindling to a mere viscounty, a vassal branch of a greater count's line, left with nothing but the small fief of Ravenwood itself.
