Lords of Bridgton

The lords of Bridgton are the descendants of Robart the Red, the man who built and defended the bridge that the town would be built up from.

History goes that, near the end of the 5 Century War, Robart the Red led his family and a hoard of humans west through the Nepenthe Lowlands. They managed to cross the Tyrhena, but when they got to the much wider (then unnamed) Watchtower River, they were unable to cross. The first Robart found the least wide section of the river, to the south, and, working day and night with his people, built a great stone bridge over decades.

By the time the Directorate had crossed the Tyrhena and made their way west, Robart, now an old man, and his people had built fortifications around the bridge, watchtowers up and down the west bank and lived peacefully on the west bank as well. Robart had set up his family in the Crimson Spire, a squat tower on the Eastern side of the bridge's fortifications where he could watch the elven forces.

The elves laid siege to the town, but the fortifications stopped land forces, and the capriciousness of the great river with the view of the watchtowers stopped any kind of landing party from making their way to the west bank.

Somehow, still unknown to this day, Thoavel the Conqueror, daughter of Thosel, made her way with a small force of warriors to the west side of the river. Unsuspecting any kind of attack from the west side, Thoavel and her warriors fought their way into town into the yard beneath the Crimson Spire. While her warriors threw open the Eastern Gate she called on Robart to surrender. Instead, Robart the Red, in rusting, ill fitting armour, walked into the yard and challenged her to single combat.

The battle was swift, and with the elven forces occupying the town, Robart's son, with his own family, surrendered the town to Thoavel. As a concession for peace his family was allowed to rule over Bridgton as lords. Following the defeat of the first Robart the Red, Thoavel returned to Port-of-Utopia where the human leaders signed the Pantheon Treaty and the Directorate Accord, ending the 5 Century War.

Each of the first sons is named Robart in honour of the first. Their sigil is a crimson tower on a grey background, and their house words are "Last Standing."