Common Knowledge / Easy Difficulty

Uncommon Knowledge / Average Difficulty

Haduswinth Narvaez was leading his people from Leslean Plains (what would become the County Leslea) of Dunstrand. The family was the rearguard of the long train of eastern nobility that the Forthright family had promised fertile river lands to. They were attacked by the Orrish they had driven into the ground in the northern T’Yendi hills. They Orrish extracted a bloody revenge along the road as the sun set. “The Dusk of the Narvaez” is a song that commemorates the parent branch of the family’s last stand as they made their way from the Leslean Plain. All the family and baggage train was slaughtered, and the 2 vassal cavalier bloodline families of Burren and Cunaigh, already thinned through marriage of the locals after their trip from the Fallen East, inherited the clan’s leadership. No clear leader would be chosen until the Riverclaim was complete. There was strife and attempts to settle leading to clashes. There was a council and the Burren family was given the prestige position as founders.

Scarce Knowledge / Hard Difficulty

Rare Knowledge / Very Hard Difficulty

Cunaigh and Burren families were once part of the same clan, both descendant from the Narvaez family. As the River Lands were neared and the families of the east were chartered as lords for their territories, there was strife and struggle between the families. Technically, Gailavira Cunaigh, the niece of the dead Lord Narvaez, being female, was the choice by blood based on the eastern tradition. However, they were bullied into submission by the Burren family, the eldest there was Roderic Burren.

Secret of the Family: The Cunaigh family settled in the Athla Hills area while the rest of the clan continued south. Gailavria planted the claim stone in the well in the well of Tolosae (named after Aelex Tolosae – a ranger of the Cunaigh family) – what would become the Hamlet of Gromesby. She told her little brother Andagis, who would record it in secret. He eventually buried it with his sister’s body on a stone tablet. The following day, Gailavria was felled by fever and died two days later. Her 2 year old daughter, Hilduarda, became the matriarch of the Cunaigh Clan eventually. Roderic himself would be killed in a duel at the age of 14, before he could pass on the information to others. The tablet was eventually found when all the eldest burials were moved to the Condar Valley in the Athla Hills family cemetery. Its secret would be held for ages, passed on verbally from one ruler to another until only the clue of “Barclayne” was known along with a vague notion of the family’s claim being older and more valid.