Ratican Family

Ratican family traces its origin back to the middle of the 3rd era. Primarily the raticans were a warrior family who participarted in wars and commanded troops.

3rd era Ratican the grey makes a pact with a being from the feywild (Likely a hag or maybe a member of the unseelie court) and curses his family line as a price for immortality. He becomes a lich and brings a terrible connotation to the family, who disown him

The curse prevents members of the ratican family from having children. it also affects the apprearance of all members to be black of hair and green of eye color. The family has been sustaining itself through the generations by marrying people who already have children. As such, the famiy has been vigilant in keeping the family name alive and constantly marries out members of the family, keeping the name alive, but spreading the curse.

Ratican the grey is pursued by adventurers and is presumed dead after he is defeated in his lair. Ratican was the first lich on the world of veren so the adventurers were ignorant of his phylactery. Ratican reformed and hid in the feywild for a few decades before returning to the material plane. Because time on the feywild flows differently than on veren. Ratican was absent from the a\material plane for over 600 years. When he returned, he began where he left off in making an undead army. He cursed the region of modern day Zeleny to be frigidly cold to preserve his undead soldiers. Another band of adventurers came and vanquished ratican for good.

after the reset that led to the 4th era, the ratican family had forgotten what their name was tied to. the original meaning and the existence of ratican the grey was completely lost in the reset. the world viewed ratican the grey's return as an odd coincidence that he shared the name with the family.

in 700~CE the ratican family name died but the family itself continued on. Dwindling in numbers, the raticans sent their last child to be married off to another family with the name of Cloth. The Cloth family was a smaller family but were in a position of power over the raticans and demanded that the marriage adopts the cloth name instead of Ratican. The raticans were forced to accept, but this did not stop the Ratican's infertility curse.

Bryant was born later but who cares.