Motto: “All Things Bear a Price.”
- Domain: Wealth, Trade, Commerce
- Symbol/Colours: A gilded balance scale crowned in gold, its plates weighed with piles of coins, set against a deep crimson field, adorned with filigree of sable and burnished gold.
- Master of Ledgers: Lord Riven Cormarn
Overview
Wherever coin changes hands, the House of Coin is present — seen or unseen, their reach stretches through every market square, every merchant’s bargain, every whispered deal struck in the dead of night. They are the lifeblood of Evergild commerce, the silent keepers of debt and fortune alike.
Founded when the Evergild first rose from scattered clans to structured Houses, the House of Coin ensured that trade flowed and coffers grew. Over time, their influence has only deepened, their fingers tightening around every transaction. Banks, vaults, and merchant roads all fall under their invisible hand. Their ancient ledgers are said to contain debts so old they are owed by bloodlines, not individuals.
Feared and respected in equal measure, the House of Coin has little need for swords or sorcery. Their power is more absolute: the quiet, inescapable pull of obligation. To cross the House of Coin is to find oneself locked out of the very economy that sustains life — a slow death by isolation.
Though whispers of corruption and ruthless practices swirl around them like mist, none dare accuse them openly. After all, even justice itself must be bought.
Domain
Their public seat, the Argent Vault, is a towering, many-spired bank built from white stone veined with gold. Its ancient doors are carved from silverwood, protected by enchantments whose names have been lost to history.
Their private estate, Veylmark, rises on a hill overlooking the city’s bustling trade quarter — a gleaming palace of marble and gold-leaf, where every hallway echoes with the muted clink of unseen wealth.
Yet it is in Denerin that House Coin’s legacy is truly anchored. Built around the ancestral seat of Cormarn Hall, this fortified city is both the heart of the realm’s minting operations and a living testament to the quiet dominion of wealth. Here, coin is cast, ledgers are sealed with spell and steel, and the balance of power is calculated not in crowns, but in credit.
Notable Subsections
- The Guildkeepers: Enforcers of merchant law, clad in cloaks embroidered with tiny scales.
- The Bankers: Custodians of the great vaults and investments, some of which stretch into secret places beneath the earth.
- The Appraisers: Masters of worth, capable of weighing not only artifact and coin but the hidden value of fate and favour.
Notable Members
(Note: While Cormarn remains the formal House name, many lesser branches adopt surnames like Coin, Mark, or Teller, reflecting personal fortune or trade allegiance.)
- Talden Cormarn — Master of the Argent Vault, whose reforms reshaped the Evergild’s banking system to favour noble interests.
- Mira Coin — A daring Guildkeeper from a junior branch, famed for surviving — and profiting from — four economic collapses.
- Lorcan Teller — Secretive Appraiser, rumoured to weigh the future itself when setting a price.
Whispers of Note
- The House of Coin holds a secret ledger, the Librum Pactum, where the names of debtors and traitors are inscribed in ink that cannot fade.
- The eldest Appraisers are rumoured to sense the cost of choices — not in gold, but in future sorrows.
- Legends whisper that the House of Coin helped broker the ancient bargain that first gilded the fae, trading wild freedom for the chains of eternal wealth.