House Tel'Adan

House Tel'Adan

House Tel'Adan is the high elven noble family from which the Irungarten family descends — a line of significant antiquity that predates the industrial turn that characterizes the modern Irungartens. The Tel'Adan name represents what the family was before it became what it is.

Origins

House Tel'Adan was a lineage of high elven nobility based outside the Farseas, associated with the more traditional elven virtues of craftsmanship, longevity, and aesthetic refinement. Their exact political position in the elven world is not extensively documented in surviving records — the family's eventual reinvention as the Irungartens involved a deliberate distancing from their ancestral identity.

The Turn

The transformation of the Tel'Adan line into the industrial Irungarten family represents one of the more dramatic reinventions in Farseas history. What began as a noble house with conventional elven aesthetics and values became, over generations, a family that embraced body augmentation, mechanical systems, black leather, and the industrialized exploitation of divine infrastructure.

Elves outside the Irungarten orbit who know the Tel'Adan lineage view this transformation with varying degrees of discomfort. High elven culture values craftsmanship — but craftsmanship in service of beauty and tradition, not in service of grey-silver brine battery arrays.

Current Significance

The Tel'Adan name surfaces occasionally in the context of the Irungarten family's legitimacy claims — particularly in disputes over inherited land rights and noble standing. Whether the original Tel'Adan estates or political connections provide any leverage in the current Farseas civil war is unclear.

See also: Irungarten, Tycho Irungarten, Wyrmhall.