Merry Christmas, everybody! Or appropriate variant winter holiday of your preference.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=219700.msg10825267#msg10825267">Quote from: AndyZ on 23-12-2014, 17:21:59</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I'm not really all that great with setting specifics, but I'm thinking for Tristan that he was the third child and that a lot wasn't expected of him, so he didn't receive the training in great amounts.  So much of his time just went into experiencing the joys that the universe had to offer, with all sorts of exhilaration.  <br/><br/>Are there specific houses out there that people might suggest reading up on that I could claim Tristan was part of?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>There aren't really any specific notable lists of Dynasties for Rogue Traders, since they tend for the most part to be single family lines.<br/><br/><br/>But I do think we should look at the Dynasty a bit, and help out Andy somewhat in the process. We are somewhat a Dynasty of Misfit Toys as it stands - our Rogue Trader is somewhat bonkers, our Engineer is an Abhuman, and we have two different species of Xenos in the officer core. What is it about this particular House that makes it a magnet for the fringes of deviancy? Are we known to the Inquisition for these things, and is it in a positive (keeps potential dangers harnessed for His benefit) or negative (constantly dancing on the edge of heresy) light?<br/><br/>Our ship is a Reliquary of Mars, which probably means ancestral family ties with the Mechanicus somewhere. Maybe the Dynasty has a tradition of sending the second son or daughter to join the tech-priests, sort of like how medieval nobility sent a second son to join the clergy? Whatever wiped out Tristian's father must have also killed his eldest brother, but having a surviving family tie could generate plot when we hit the sandbox phase.<br/><br/>Along the same lines, Andy, do you want to be the sole surviving member of the lineage, or does Tristian have other relatives - younger siblings, cousins, aunts or uncles, who would stand to inherit if he was to suffer an unfortunate accident? Did the Dowager Mother survive whatever disaster befell her son and husband, and is she ruthless enough to possibly look to secretly engineer the demise of her useless wastrel third child?