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Complete Article: House Marka Ragnos
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The History Overview
The story of House Marka Ragnos begins some 5,300 years before the Battle of Yavin, when the Dark Lord of the Sith, Marka Ragnos himself, began his reign over the Sith Empire. Under his rule a Golden Age was ushered in. Ragnos ruled with unparalleled success for 300 years. During this time, he established a devoted following of warriors, scholars and other figures who swore an oath of loyalty to him.
After Ragnos was succeeded by Naga Sadow, this cult remained loyal to their slain master and left Korriban, wandering across the galaxy with no destination in mind. In their travels, this cult came across the planet Karana III and settled there. They began calling themselves the "Disciples of Ragnos" and continued to worship their master and practice his dark doctrine. However, the Disciples were soon driven away from Karana, and they settled on the planet Loki in the Phare system.
It was not long before Clan Overlord Astronicus Sadow came to Phare and brought together his followers under the name of House Naga Sadow. Soon, as the numbers of House Naga Sadow grew, it became Clan Naga Sadow and the Disciples of Ragnos deigned to become House Marka Ragnos. Over time the House grew and developed under the leadership of notable Dark Jedi such as Trevarus Caerick, Astronicus Aurelius Sadow and Muz Ashen Keibatsu) who later went on to greater things, and became one of the foremost Houses in the Dark Brotherhood.
The Disciples of Ragnos of the modern era are made up of Sith, Krath and Obelisk of the Dark Jedi Brotherhood. The epistle of Marka Ragnos continues to live on through a new generation adored in the traditions of old.
Early History
Much of the history of the house pre-Split has been lost. This section is composed of what fragments were recovered by Clan historians.
The history of the house at its creation was somewhat chaotic. The first Quaestor of the multi-order House Marka Ragnos was Dark Jedi Knight Ximeno, the Commander of the Sith Ravana Squadron in House Naga Sadow. The first Aedile was Dark Jedi Knight Raistlin. However, Ximeno's reign as Quaestor did not last long before his wanderlust caused him to leave the known galaxy, his disappearance saw the rise of Kharon Daragon, who had earlier stepped down as Proconsul of Clan Naga Sadow to guide the members of Marka Ragnos while Raistlin stayed on as Aedile.
When Robert Sadow, formerly Daragon, was named as the next Consul his replacement was Dark Jedi Knight Raistlin and at this point in the house's history the only known phyle in the house was the Cimerii Sect; Raistlin selected Dark Jedi Knight Aseret Thunderhawk as his Aedile. Under Raist's tenure the house moved into its home on the forest moon of Lien in the Pirath system before eventually moving to Loki in the Phare system. As time progressed Aseret resigned to focus more on her studies and Raistlin appointed Knight William Flechette as her successor.
Fate was not kind to Raistlin as he fell victim to the Grand Master's reconstructing of the houses in the Dark Brotherhood and houses became order-specific; it was inevitable that some leaders would lose their positions as was evidence with Raistlin. With this unfortunate turn of events the House became the Krath arm of Clan Naga Sadow resulting in the appointment of Krath Priestess Aseret.
Her first appointments were Dark Jedi Knight Arkane Skywalker as Aedile and Jedi Hunter Enerum Shka as Rollmaster. As the Krath house started its life a rudimentary Mentor program was started by Jedi Hunter Reiam Darksaber, how long this program lasted has been lost to the ages. Aseret's reign only lasted one month before events with the council saw her replaced by Mordaan.
After a month under the leadership of Priestess Aseret, Marka Ragnos found themselves under the leadership of Mordaan from Scholae Palatinae when the Priestess resigned. Although it was considered rather strange occurrence for an outside appointment, it had been proposed that it was the lack of steady leadership within the house that prompted the outside intervention.
Mordaan found themselves thrown into the fire swiftly as an outside organization known as “The Guild” was known to be trying to recruit from within the house to lure members away; Mordaan requested that all members contacted by a member of this organization contact them as soon as this contact occurred and it is unknown if this problem was localized to Marka Ragnos or was a larger problem. As this problem seemed to be at its peak the Dark Council removed Arkane Skywalker from his Aedile position and appointed him the Tetrarch of the Cimerii Sect; the sudden changing of the guard saw Mordaan replace Arkane with Knight Shonan Darksole as their Aedile and the new appointment of Jedi Hunter Daihok Endymiron as the house Rollmaster.
Mordaan soon found the house under fire again as Jedi Hunter Reiam Darksaber returned simply to harass the house, prompting Mordaan to address the house and request them to ignore the former Jedi Hunter.
As the environment began to calm in the house Mordaan created the Night Hawks as a phyle of the house with Hunter Trevarus Caerick as its Tetrarch and the Black Omen with Enerum Shka as its Tetrarch; at this point the Night Hawks were established as the elite phyle of the house.
As time progressed Shonan Darksole resigned from Mordaan’s side for greater things provoking the appointment of Trevarus Caerick as his replacement and leaving the Night Hawks looking for a new Tetrarch; due to lack of interest the Cimerri Sect and Black Omen found themselves disbanded and reorganized into the Dark Scholars, leaving only the Scholars and the Night Hawks as the two phyles of the house.
After several months in the line of fire Mordaan resigned from all the stress of the position, leaving Trevarus Caerick to assume the title of Quaestor with Enerum Shka rising to the position of Aedile. As his first action as Quaestor Trevarus disbanded the Dark Scholars, a lack of interest in phyles also forcing him to set everyone in the house above the rank of Acolyte to be placed in a phyle. During his time in office, Caerick saw the passing of a Great Jedi War and in his wisdom sought to archive the stories, writings and history of the house by building a Dark Library.
With almost half a year of service under his belt, Trevarus Caerick was elevated to the position of Proconsul of Naga Sadow thanks to all his work with the House allowing Enerum Shka to relieve him of his position. Shka soon found himself under fire as the house found itself plagued with unrest. With the house turned against itself and the phyles working against each other Shka was forced to remind his members that they should stand united against the houses enemies as opposed to each other, although friendly competition was acceptable. It was during his tenure that Shka also relocated the Dark Library and established the “Dark Librarian” position to tend it; a Mentor program was also proposed to help the younger members but was never implemented before Enerum Shka was removed by Trevarus Caerick and Priest Rage was elevated to replace him.
Quickly following up to his predecessor, Rage appointed Archpriest Daihok as his Aedile, implemented the Mentor system and witnessed Operation Darkfall with the Clan performing admirably although the specific details on how the House performed is unknown. While Operation Darkfall had seen success by the Sadowans, Marka Ragnos was haunted by a lack of enthusiasm from its members. As such Quaestor Rage rebalanced the phyles in a ladder-based system with the Night Seekers as the training phyle with the Night Death as an intermediate phyle before joining the Night Hawks as the elite phyle of the house. Records on how this change affected the performance of the house or who was assigned to the individual phyles have since been lost to the ages.
The house found itself experiencing a couple of changes in the coming months with Rage replaced with Shae-Lynn Jade for the duration of a Great Jedi War for personal reasons before she was replaced by the clan Overlord Astronicus Aurelius Sadow due to the depression in the house.
Astronicus, better known as Tron, was forced to transfer from the Sith order to ensure the house survived but he was swift in selecting his Aedile. Although another member from outside of the house, Archpriestess Mairin Astoris was quick to assist Tron in his diligence in weeding out the inactive members to keep the house in fighting shape. During this time the house generally stood around fifteen members but excelled in its missions against and with other houses and clans of the Brotherhood; competing with and assisting House Acclivis Draco of Scholae Palatinae while engaging Clan Satal Keto as a whole with the clan.
Tron's tenure as Quaestor of the house was short-lived with the Night Hawks renamed to “Prophecy” and Ilyan Kano selected as its Tetrarch; soon thereafter Mairin was named as the Krath High Priestess and leaving the position of Aedile to Ilyan Kano. The shuffle was not finished at this point as Tron left the house to act as an Emissary to the Assembly of Consuls and appointed Ilyan as his successor.
During Iylan's tenure he performed admirably amongst the changing of the guard and events that arose; the return of Trevarus Caerick to the house saw “Prophesy” return to the title of Night Hawks and Robert Sadow move from Naga Sadow to Ludo Kressh to become their Quaestor. Robert's replacement, Knight Neo, unfortunately couldn't fulfill his duties as Aedile due to an accident that claimed his life and left the house absent of both an Aedile and a Quaestor of a couple of weeks as Iylan grieved for the loss of his friend. During this time of chaos Pontifex Voranyen had been asked to watch over the house by Iylan until his return, which had been shorter than expected and Iylan took on Archpriest Khobai Wrathraven as his Aedile and posted two new members in command of the Phyles. Khobai took no time in taking control in his new role and began a large-scale recruitment drive to bolster the numbers of the house following their unceremonious loss during the Vendetta, the Quest.
Near the end of the year a bid for the Orbs of Power began in Clan Naga Sadow provoking Iylan to push for greater activity and enthusiasm amongst his members and during the event Iylan begins the Master-Student program in a bid to help the younger members of the house during this time of strife. As 18 ABY came around Khobai resigned from his position allowing Knight Jonuss Rai to assume the title of Aedile although this happy time was short-lived as Iylan dissappeared from the house for unknown reasons, leaving the newly appointed Aedile in near complete control of the House. With the house in a weakened state when the Dark Council gave a call to the clans for the Stone of Light, the Ragnosians performed very poorly in their duties resulting in nearly driving the young Aedile mad. It didn't take long for the High Priestess to take notice of this rather absurd situation and left her forced to assume Iylan had been lost to a wanderlust, appointing Rai as the Quaestor of the house.
Upon being appointed, Rai took matters of the House into his own hands swiftly, wanting nothing but the best from his members and requesting reports from any members in positions of power under him on a weekly basis. Rai even went as far as requesting reports of individual members work on a weekly basis to be added to the ever expanding Dark Library. Shortly after his appointment the young Quaestor needed help and appointed Robert Sadow as his Aedile; this was not to last as Bob sought the position of Quaestor of Primus Goluud and Rai was forced to appoint Thomaas Banys as his Aedile in his stead. During the next couple of months the House seemed rather quiet with activity staying at a good position and the Rollmaster position was dissolved. It was part way through the year that a feud started between Naga Sadow, Arcona and Tarentum; in a bid to keep his members in fighting shape Rai made sure that all his Phyles were in order and ready for battle. After a short bit of relaxation following their feud with the other clans, Rai's attention turned to his House after noting that not as many had been fighting with him as he would've wished; after searching for his house members he was forced to assume they had left and issued a request for all members to report to him weekly resulting in the end of Khobai's recruitment drive. After several months of hard work the weight of being a good leader finally brought Rai down and he was forced to leave active duty for personal reasons.
The next several weeks were rather unimpressive with Aedile Thomaas Banys promoted to Quaestor with Priestess Ghost Angel being assigned as the Aedile of the house. This short-lived leadership was pretty much an interim leadership until history would be changed for the Brotherhood shortly after the resignation of Thomaas with Ghost Angel assuming the title of Quaestor.
With the incident resolved and Aeotheran recovering with the help of the Dlarit forces, the Ragnosians had earned themselves a reprieve to relax and recover. Time spent with the Aedile returning to Mucenic and the Night Raptors being disbanded and replaced with the Governor Security Force at Markosian City.