House Orlan

Start-class article · First seen: pre-campaign brief · Last seen: ongoing reference

House Orlan is the Velkris merchant house that dominates finance, debt, banking, contracts, arbitration and records. Its clerks, lenders, lawyers and witnesses surround every important record in the city. It is one of the five houses of the Council of Factors, led by the dwarven banker-lord Iven Orlan, and its saying is “Orlan does not forget. It only waits.” It is world-brief canon only; the party has not visited Velkris and has not met Orlan paper on screen.

Overview

House Orlan is the Velkris merchant house whose business is paper: finance, debt, banking, contracts, arbitration and records. If a seal is missing, a debt is disputed, a cargo claim changes or an inheritance is challenged, the brief says, House Orlan is almost certainly nearby.

It is one of the five houses of the Council of Factors. Its factor is Iven Orlan, and its saying is “Orlan does not forget. It only waits.” The house has not appeared in play.

Known traits

Work. Finance, debt, banking, private contracts, arbitration and ownership claims (world brief).
Presence. Orlan clerks, lenders, lawyers and witnesses surround every important record in the city (world brief).
Bonded service. In the brief’s account of Velkris’s slavery, House Marr is the institutional spine, House Brask the enforcement, and the High Registry and Orlan the paperwork.
Not stated. The brief names no offices, branches or holdings for the house, and does not say how it works with the temples of Myrana, which double as banks and courts.

Relationships

Council of Factors. One of the five houses; Iven Orlan sits for it in the Silent Hall.
High Registry. The records hall that decides who owns what and whose claim is recognised; the brief names it with Orlan as the paperwork of bonded service.
House Marr and House Brask. The other two parts of that machine. No other tie between the five houses is described.

Notable named figures

Iven Orlan, factor: a dwarven banker-lord whose family has remembered debts for longer than some nations have existed (world brief).

History in the campaign

Not yet seen in play.

Status

As of session 23. Off-screen and unvisited. The party has not met an Orlan clerk or Iven Orlan, and the house has not been named at the table, though in session 19 Hugo named Velkris as the party’s next destination ^[1].

References

^ Session 19, line 271: Inline citation.

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