Clan Vordek

Clan Vordek keeps its strength in iron, grudges, and the hard patience of people who believe someone must say no before winter spends the realm. Its halls ring with forge hammers, bridge chains, tack rivets, and arguments over stores. The clan's elders are praised for endurance and hated for the same reason; they can make a feast sound like theft if the herds are thin. Their line remembers old sieges and older betrayals, and teaches that ground held past comfort may become the ground everyone else retreats to. Their danger is ownership disguised as vigilance. There is beauty in their discipline when bridge chains hold through flood and siege plates turn a desperate charge; there is dread in the way that same discipline can make mercy sound like weakness.