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[[File:Elwynn_Coat_of_Arms.png|350px|thumb|rightt|The Monarchy of Elwynn]]  
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[[File:Elwynn_Coat_of_Arms.png|350px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">The Monarchy of Elwynn</div> ]]
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[[File:King_Noah4.png|350px|thumb|rightt|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">[[King of Elwynn|King]] [[Noah|Thorstein Noah]] of [[Elwynn]] with the [[Sword of Goodness]].</div>]]
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[[File:King_Noah_Procession2.png|350px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">[[King of Elwynn|King]] [[Noah]] of [[Elwynn]] on a Royal Procession through the [[Eliria|Kingly City of Eliria]].</div>]]
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[[File:Prince_Vilhjálm.png|350px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">Prince [[Vilhjalm of Amokolia|Vilhjálm]], the present [[Prince of Amokolia]] and Heir to the [[White Orchid Throne]] in the year 1645.</div> ]]
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[[File:Arms_Family_Council_House_of_Orchids.png|350px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">The Coat of Arms of the Family Council of the House of Orchids.</div> ]]
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The legal and cultural term '''Royal Family of Elwynn''' denoted the Ruling Dynasty of the [[Elwynn#Names of Elwynn|Flower of the North]]. The Royal Family of Elwynn was headed by the [[King of Elwynn]]. It is also known as the [[House of Orchids]].
  
The legal and cultural term '''Royal Family of Elwynn''' denotes the Ruling Dynasty of the [[Elwynn|Flower of the North]]. The Royal Family of Elwynn is headed by the [[King of Elwynn]].
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===Former Members===
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*[[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion|Adam Anushiruwân Hilding]] Ayreon-Kalirion ibn al-Majeed bin Sathrati of Waffel-Paine (excluded);
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*[[Arn Ayreon-Kalirion|Arn David Shapur]] Ayreon-Kalirion ibn al-Majeed bin Sathrati of Waffel-Paine (assassinated);
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*[[Jonathan Ayreon-Kalirion|Jonathan Ayreon-Kalirion]] (assassinated);
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*[[Rostam Ayreon-Kalirion|Rostam Job Cashmael]] Ayreon-Kalirion ibn al-Majeed bin Sathrati of Waffel-Paine (assassinated).
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*[[Æsileif Haraldsdóttir]] of the Houses des Vinandy and [[House of Ettlingar Freyu|Ettlingar Freyu]];
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*[[Audun Joel Ayreon-Kalirion|Audun Joel Hallbjörnsson]] of the Houses of [[House of Ayreon-Kalirion|Ayreon-Kalirion]] and of the [[House of Ettlingar Freyu|Descendants of Freyja]];
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*Charlotte Arkadius- og Æsileifsdóttir of the Houses des Vinandy and Ettlingar Freyu;
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*[[Hallbjörn Haraldsson]] of the Houses of Ayreon-Kalirion and of the Descendants of Freyja;
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*[[Fjǫrleif Hallbjörnsdóttir]] of the Houses of Ayreon-Kalirion and of the Descendants of Freyja;
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*[[Geirbjörg Gefialdrsdottir]] of the House of the Descendants of Freyja;
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*[[Inga Hallbjörnsdóttir]] of the House of the Descendants of Freyja;
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*[[Liv Djupvik]];
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*[[Kaiseress Noor|Noor as-Salaam bint Daniyal]] Umra Suleiman Ayreon-Kalirion ibn al-Majeed al-Osman bin Sathrati af Ettlingum Freyu Umm Zahir al-Din of [[Waffel-Paine]];
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*[[King Noah of Elwynn|Thorstein Noah Hallbjörns- og Esthersson]] of the Houses of Waffel-Paine‎‎, of Ayreon-Kalirion, and of the Descendants of Freyja;
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*[[Vidar Salim Livarson]] Ayreon-Kalirion ibn al-Majeed al-Osman bin Sathrati of Waffel-Paine;
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*[[Vilhjalm Ayreon-Kalirion af Ettlingum Freyu|Vilhjálm Daniel Gudrödar Noahs- og Noorsson]] of the Houses of Ayreon-Kalirion and of the Descendants of Freyja;
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*[[Aldin Ayreon-Kalirion|Zahir al Din Benjamin Rai]] Ayreon-Kalirion ibn al-Majeed bin Sathrati of Waffel-Paine.
  
==Membersship==
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==Kingly Powers of Protection==
Nowadays one can only become a member of the Royal Family of Elwynn if one is a child or grandchild of a member of the Royal Family aforesaid. Individuals who marry a member of the Royal Family of the [[Jewel of Many Facets]] may, upon being joined in holy matrimony or thereafter, also be admitted to the membership of the Royal Family of Elwynn.
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The King of Elwynn has the power to, by ordinance, make rules and regulations which have the force of law, with power to attach penalties for their infringement, to protect the Royal Family's ancient rights, privileges, free customs, honour, dignity, peace, order and welfare, to protect its official documents and patrimony as well as the private papers and property of its members, and to protect itself and its members against any person or persons interfering with, molesting, harrassing, threatening or attempting to intimidate them in their pursuit of happiness and liberté de vivre.
  
The King may, for reasons which to Him seem sufficient, by an Instrument of Membership Termination under His Hand and the Seal of the Elwynnese Union, upon application of the Family Council of the Royal Family of [[Northshire]], terminate any person's membership in the Royal Family of the [[Lands of Elwyna]].
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==The Family Council==
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===About===
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The Family Council was one of the five principal councils of the [[King of Elwynn]]. The other four are the Royal Courts of Justice, the [[Council of Eliria]], the [[Royal Parliament]] and the Parlement des Pairs, the assembly of the Pairs of Elwyna. It was created in the year 1624 in the self-same decree issued by the Governing [[Steward of Elwynn]], the [[Storjarl]] [[Hallbjörn Haraldsson]], that defined the membership of the House of Orchids, which was at the time - before the elevation of the Elwynnese Union to a kingdom in 1629 - referred to as the Serene Family of Elwynn. The council exist to assist the King with upholding the honour, dignity, peace, order and welfare of the House of Orchids.  
  
==Members==
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At present the Family Council has one formal power under Elwynnese Law: the sole power to making an application to the King for the issuance an Instrument of Membership Termination concerning a member of the House of Orchids; no one's membership in the Royal Family of Elwynn can be terminated without such application. The aforesaid council does, however, has the King's ear.
*Audun Joel Hallbjörnsson of the Houses of [[Line of Ayreon-Kalirion|Ayreon-Kalirion]] and of the [[House of Ettlingar Freyu|Descendants of Freyja]];
 
*Hallbjörn Haraldsson of the Houses of Ayreon-Kalirion and of the Descendants of Freyja;
 
*Fjǫrleif Hallbjörnsdóttir of the Houses of Ayreon-Kalirion and of the Descendants of Freyja;
 
*[[King Noah of Elwynn|Thorstein Noah Hallbjörnsson of the Houses of Ayreon-Kalirion and of the Descendants of Freyja]].  
 
  
==Titles==
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For the first two decades of its formal existence was the Family Council was quite the dormant body, not ever convening until the year 1645. The first meeting was held in the aforesaid year to discuss the expulsion of [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]] from the Royal Family of Elwynn. Those talks ultimately led to the council filing an application for an Instrument of Membership Termination concerning Adam. The aforesaid application was granted by the King and Adam was removed from the roll of membership of the House of Orchids.
Any member of the of the Royal Family of Elwynn, except for the King of Elwynn who has His very own set of titles, is entitled to the following titles:
 
*Prince(ss) of Elwynn;
 
*Counte(ss) of Northshire;
 
*Counte(ss) of Arietta;
 
*Counte(ss) of the Lady Esther Isles.
 
  
[[category:Elwynn]]
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By convention is the Family Council presently composed of the five most senior adult members of the House of Orchids, except for the King, and presided over by the one of them with the longest [[Rulers of Elwynn#Governing Stewards|service]] as Governing Steward of Elwynn. The King is, is couse, free to make any changes to the composition and presidency of the council He pleases.
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Nowadays the Family Council convenes regularly to discuss the variety of matters that arises concerning the Royal Family of Elwynn. The council usually meets in either the Duke Harald Chamber of the Avaldsborg in the [[Royal City]] of [[Avaldsnes (Royal City)|Avaldsnes]] or in the Viruja Chamber of Castle Islàn of the Old Harbour of in the Royal City of [[Hyfrost]].
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===Traditions and Customs and Governing Texts===
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Subject to the absolute authority of the [[King of Elwynn|King]] of the [[Elwynn#Names of Elwynn|Flower of the North]], as well as the provisions of Royal Law, the Family Council was chiefly governed by the following ancient texts and the customs and traditions derived therefrom:
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*Lady Anne-Marie's Treatise on the Sovereign Household (in particular the provisions on the ''House Council'' and the ''Imperial Family Council'');
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*Traité des Droits du Roi d'Ibelin (especially the stipulations concerning the ''Conseil de la Famille Royale'').
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His Riverine Majesty is, of course, free to introduce, revive and discontinue any custom and tradition to the Family Council He pleases.
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===Last Members of the Family Council===
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*[[Audun Joel Ayreon-Kalirion|Audun Joel Hallbjörns- og Esthersson]] of the Houses of [[House of Ayreon-Kalirion|Ayreon-Kalirion]] and of the [[House of Ettlingar Freyu|Descendants of Freyja]];
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*[[Hallbjörn Haraldsson]] of the Houses of Ayreon-Kalirion and of the Descendants of Freyja;
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*[[Fjǫrleif Hallbjörnsdóttir]] of the Houses of Ayreon-Kalirion and of the Descendants of Freyja;
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*[[Geirbjörg Gefialdrsdottir]] of the House of the Descendants of Freyja;
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*[[Kaiseress Noor|Noor as-Salaam bint Daniyal]] Umra Suleiman Ayreon-Kalirion ibn al-Majeed al-Osman bin Sathrati af Ettlingum Freyu Umm Zahir al-Din of [[Waffel-Paine]].
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[[category:Elwynn]][[Category:Monarchy of Elwynn]]

Latest revision as of 23:03, 23 October 2017

The Monarchy of Elwynn
King Noah of Elwynn on a Royal Procession through the Kingly City of Eliria.
Prince Vilhjálm, the present Prince of Amokolia and Heir to the White Orchid Throne in the year 1645.
The Coat of Arms of the Family Council of the House of Orchids.

The legal and cultural term Royal Family of Elwynn denoted the Ruling Dynasty of the Flower of the North. The Royal Family of Elwynn was headed by the King of Elwynn. It is also known as the House of Orchids.

Former Members

Kingly Powers of Protection

The King of Elwynn has the power to, by ordinance, make rules and regulations which have the force of law, with power to attach penalties for their infringement, to protect the Royal Family's ancient rights, privileges, free customs, honour, dignity, peace, order and welfare, to protect its official documents and patrimony as well as the private papers and property of its members, and to protect itself and its members against any person or persons interfering with, molesting, harrassing, threatening or attempting to intimidate them in their pursuit of happiness and liberté de vivre.

The Family Council

About

The Family Council was one of the five principal councils of the King of Elwynn. The other four are the Royal Courts of Justice, the Council of Eliria, the Royal Parliament and the Parlement des Pairs, the assembly of the Pairs of Elwyna. It was created in the year 1624 in the self-same decree issued by the Governing Steward of Elwynn, the Storjarl Hallbjörn Haraldsson, that defined the membership of the House of Orchids, which was at the time - before the elevation of the Elwynnese Union to a kingdom in 1629 - referred to as the Serene Family of Elwynn. The council exist to assist the King with upholding the honour, dignity, peace, order and welfare of the House of Orchids.

At present the Family Council has one formal power under Elwynnese Law: the sole power to making an application to the King for the issuance an Instrument of Membership Termination concerning a member of the House of Orchids; no one's membership in the Royal Family of Elwynn can be terminated without such application. The aforesaid council does, however, has the King's ear.

For the first two decades of its formal existence was the Family Council was quite the dormant body, not ever convening until the year 1645. The first meeting was held in the aforesaid year to discuss the expulsion of Adam Ayreon-Kalirion from the Royal Family of Elwynn. Those talks ultimately led to the council filing an application for an Instrument of Membership Termination concerning Adam. The aforesaid application was granted by the King and Adam was removed from the roll of membership of the House of Orchids.

By convention is the Family Council presently composed of the five most senior adult members of the House of Orchids, except for the King, and presided over by the one of them with the longest service as Governing Steward of Elwynn. The King is, is couse, free to make any changes to the composition and presidency of the council He pleases.

Nowadays the Family Council convenes regularly to discuss the variety of matters that arises concerning the Royal Family of Elwynn. The council usually meets in either the Duke Harald Chamber of the Avaldsborg in the Royal City of Avaldsnes or in the Viruja Chamber of Castle Islàn of the Old Harbour of in the Royal City of Hyfrost.

Traditions and Customs and Governing Texts

Subject to the absolute authority of the King of the Flower of the North, as well as the provisions of Royal Law, the Family Council was chiefly governed by the following ancient texts and the customs and traditions derived therefrom:

  • Lady Anne-Marie's Treatise on the Sovereign Household (in particular the provisions on the House Council and the Imperial Family Council);
  • Traité des Droits du Roi d'Ibelin (especially the stipulations concerning the Conseil de la Famille Royale).

His Riverine Majesty is, of course, free to introduce, revive and discontinue any custom and tradition to the Family Council He pleases.

Last Members of the Family Council