HOUSE ZENTRAEDI

By Seth Rutledge (sprutled@uncc.edu)

Last House of the Noble Trolls

House Zentraedi is not an old house at all, but a new house formed from the ashes of the ancient houses of the noble trolls, based on a military model instead of the medieval concept of the other houses. House Zentraedi also embraces the "modern" tools of science, as witnessed on television anime cartoons.

Members of House Zentraedi are soldiers. While they are very concerned with honor, glory and reputation, individual quests mean very little to them. The only thing that matters is that the mission was accomplished, and that team members support each other.

The main difference between Zentraedi and the other houses is that Zentraedi is primarily composed of trolls. The leader of the House, High Commander Dolza, allows non-trolls into the ranks, but high-ranking positions are held by non-sidhe. As can be expected, this irritates the other Houses to no end, and like House Liam, Zentraedi is an outlaw organization, unrecognized by High King David. In return, House Zentraedi regards the noble Houses as little more than glorified boys-clubs, where spoiled sidhe prance around and give orders with no regard to a final outcome.

High Commander Dolza's overall goal is the unification of all trolls under his leadership, and the modernizing of changeling society. To this end, members of House Zentraedi do not use "primitive" chimerical weapons such as swords and crossbows. Smiths in House Zentraedi produce blaster rifles, suits of power armour, and other, high-tech devices appropriate to anime movies. They have developed a procedure by which dross can be converted into a powersource known as "protoculture", to fuel mecha and the "Ro-Beast" chimerical creatures they use as shock troops in battle.

So far, Dolza has conquered several cities in the northern midwest, and he is gradualyl expanding his sphere of influence.

Boon: House Zentraedi soldiers are trained in the arts of combat from the time they are inducted. They are crack-shots, and highly skilled at surviving hostile territories. All members gain an additional dot of skill in melee, firearms, brawl and survival.

Flaw: House Zentraedi is even more hated than House Liam. They are oathbroken, and no one is required to deal with them by the rules of honor. A member of Zentraedi will frequently be attacked first and asked questions of later. In addition, changelings of this house have repressed their artistic and emotional aspects. They suffer a +2 difficulty to resist mind-control effects that target their emotions.

Afterward: Ok, the coincidence of having big, blue warriors was too much for me. House Zentraedi gives changeling society something to fight, much like the sabbat do for the camarillia. Please let me know what you think. If you like this, I could do House Tirol, the sidhe allies of the the Zentradi. ;)