House Bolten

House Bolten is an ancient Gothic House that grew powerful during the years following the end of the Numeron Empire. Following this they have eventually taken control over much of the western region of Westros under the banner of the Kingdom of Bolten.

House Bolten has gained a reputation throughout its history as an extremely violent household that used "flaying" of its victoms as an almost obsessive hobby. Alongside this they have had a habit of annihilating the houses in the region that have come to disapoint or reject their authority.

House Bolten has led the Kingdom of Bolten into three wars over the period of Roose Bolten's reign, and these conflicts have come to a head during the end of book two where the Kingdom of Bolten led by House Bolten has basically declared war on the Kingdom of Lucerne, and in book three is going to be involved in a fight to the death over Koenisburg,

Empire of Numeron
Main Article : Empire of Numeron

Rise in Westros
With the Downfall of the Numeron passing by the next influencial moment for the region was the Great Migration of Germanic tribes fleeing the coming of Chaos. Due to this migration the once completely Atlantian people of the region were slowly outnumbered by Goths who swelled the regions numbers.

In these coming Gothic families was the family that would come to be known as House Bolten, and at the time it was led by the first great member of the House in Jornin Bolten.

Growth of Dreadfort
Jornin Bolten saw that with the departing Atlantians the Goths were going to have a home of their own, and in this way he begin marshaling his personal thralls in his estate to build farms in the surrounding regions, and he offered goth families the chance to farm these lands the only cost being they swore loyalty to House Bolten. For poor goth families this offer was beyond great, and the region around his estate swelled with the coming families. With the farm land all taken he began inviting them to start businesses, and industry in the estate that he now renamed Dreadfort.

In his 45 year life he would turn his small estate of only 120 people into a town of 1200 and a surounding farmland loyal to him of hundreds more.

Family Members

 * Tylen Bolten
 * Kyle Bolten
 * Roose Bolten
 * Walda Bolten
 * Ramsey Bolten
 * Domeric Bolten
 * Betha Bolten. Died during the birth of Cerwynn Bolten.
 * John Bolten
 * Cerwynn Bolten
 * Jeanie Bolten
 * Jordin Bolten
 * Myrielle Bolten
 * Reznik Bolten. Died during the Battle of Pontus
 * Ryselle Bolten
 * Mika Bolten
 * Misha Bolten
 * Dominec Bolten
 * Sarah Bolten
 * William Bolten. Died during the Battle of Pontus
 * Francis Bolten
 * Hansen Bolten

House Hornwood
See Also : House Hornwood