Post by Queen Beathag Aberdeen on Dec 28, 2009 18:01:39 GMT -6
Clans of the Isle
Clan MacRauri/Family Aberdeen
Dominant Traditional/Geographic Region: Central Skye, Eastern Coast, just off of Rasaay Sound, & Skye Isle in later histories
Dominant Family: Aberdeen (nee MacRauri)Clan Chieftain: Alan MacRauri, Lord of the Isles, Lord Aberdeen's Grandfather (deceased)
Clan Tanist: None
Clan Heir:Lady Davina MacRaui, former wife of William Maubrey, daughter of the Lord of the Isles. (deceased)
Principle Seat: Griffin Castle, Turas Lan
Principle City: Turas Lan
Alliances: All major clans + majority nobility, past and present
Enemies: Clan MacDonald - Sleat Area
Clan MacRauri dominant is dead by way of its prior royalty, but lives in the descendants of the ruling family.
The vast majority of the MacRauri holdings once included most of Skye's east coast including the Isle of Raasay and the Isle of Scalpay before the prominence of the MacRauri's as Skye's de factor high house placed them in the contingency for Lord of the Isles, a post once held through the MacDonald line of descendend Norse jarls. For many generations the MacRauri's enjoyed close alliances with the clans of Scotland, Skye included, and sat comfortably in rule. MacRauri Castle ruins are located in the land outside of Luib, sight of the last speech of Robert Bruce to unify fighting clans during the ceildeih near the end of the wars of 1328- early 29, and the land where Lady Mary died.
The grandson of Laird MacRauri is alive, Adam Aberdeen, son of Lady Davina, his daughter, with the legacy carried in blood through his great grand daughter Davina Murieall and in claiming by Aodhan Shirial Aberdeen, his adopted great grandson
Relatives of Clan MacRauri through marriage include those married from Aberdeen - Murieall Aberdeen, a distantced cousin of Lara MacRauri (of the Aberdeens), the Lord MacRauri's wife and mother to Davina, the lord's daughter. The MacRauri's commonly chose the women of royal burgh Aberdeen as high harpers for the Isle, a few of which had come to be wives, like Lara. There is also mention among some of how the MacRauri and the MacDonalds compete, only for one division of the same family rose higher than the other.
Clan MacLeod
Dominant/Traditional Geographical Region: Duirinish
Dominant Regional Family: MacLeod
Cheiftan: Lord Siol MacLeod
Tanist: Lucius MacLeod
Heir: Siobhan MacLeod
Principal Seat: MacLeod's Table Range
Principal Township: Dunvegan
Additional Septs:
Alliances: Clan Campbell, Clan Robertson
Enemies: Clan MacSween, Clan MacDonald (Sleat)
The province shall be the region known on the map as MacLeod's Table, to include:
Glendale, Milovag, Dunvegan + Dunvegan Castle, Loch Dunvegan, and the mountains which traditionally make up what is called MacLeod's Table.
Borders: The half of Loch Brocadale closest to MacLeod's Table serves as a natural sort of water border
Clan MacLeod is one of the oldest clans on Skye, subject to one of the most valiant and romantic histories of Old Highland tales. Boasting a long, proud ancestry, the Clan continues to promote their family pride while striving forward into these brave, new times. An old friend of Clan MacRauri when they were in exsistence, in renewing ties with the new ruling family, the continue a tradition of devotion, bravery, chivalry, and fortitude to kin and country.
While not all are, a great many of the elder MacLeods are against Clan MacSween due to a love match between two younger people. There was old blood between the two clans, and where it should be forgotten, the old aren't likely to do so. There was also talk of an old love match gone wrong years ago, ending truck of trade and marriages between the two families. Never mention they could possibly be of relation, or the old might go into hysterics. There is the same situation revisited as one of the MacLeod's dares to love a MacDonald son.
Clan Robertson
Dominant Traditional/Geographical Region:Northwesten Central Skye, Mingish
Dominant Family: Robertson
Chieftain: Alexander Robertson
Tanist: Iain Robertson
Tanist's Wife: Keilana Robertson
Heir(s): Emily Robertson (Tanist's daughter)
Principal Seat: Dun Darroch Castle, Struan
Principal Township: Struan
Additional Septs: Collier. Reid, Reed
Alliances: Clan Argyll, by force
Enemies: Clan MacGregor
To be the land between MacLeod and Eohmark, beneath the traditional region Waternish is the heart of Robertson land to include:
Struan,+ half of Loch Bracadale outside of Struan serving as a natural boundary to meet with the watery border that forms the seperations between Robertson and MacLeod country. Bernisdale, Carbost, Edinbane along with the country in the midst of these towns. Edinbane is a point of contention, as it belongs in Argyll hands.
Border: The thin loch between Edinbane and Eohmark serves as a water boundary between the two regions.
The Robertsons in effect also own the Waternish, making the traditional ruling family and their holdings nearly vassals in their alliance.
A clan where intrigue, sex, murder, and mystery run as rampant as handsome faces and beautiful forms, Clan Robertson is a family that had kept unto itself for many generations, plotting pieces of this or that, gasping, gawking, or making gossip among the the villages in their care. The sad story of the feuding Robertson heirs is a bittersweet reminder of how one can not help how they are born, yet above them has risen The Bastard of Struan. Renown for their strength and battle and opportunistic chances, the clan has grown outward from Struan and upward in prestige. Thanks to a marriage alliance gone awry, they are now in effective control of Waternish and Clan Argyll one of the most hermetic families on the island, allowing them residency only because it serves them to do so.
They are tied to Clan MacGregor by the now infamous, romantic, and awe inspiring tale of Iain and Chloestrain makes for heavy tensions between the two prominent households, especially as the heir that the MacGregor chieftain claims is the son of Iain Robertson.
Clan Argyll
Dominant Traditional Geographic Region: North Skye, Waternish
Dominant Family: Argyll, with a heavy Robertson presence due to fealty given to the Robertson Family.
Cheiftain:Raibert Argyll, after the death of his brother Forbes
Tanist: Morton Argyll (Cheiftan's son)
Heirs: Qynn Argyll (Chieftain's daughter)
Principle Seat: Eliean Donan
Principle Township: Halistra
Additional Septs: None
Alliances: Clan Robertson, Clan Campbell
Enemies: Clan Robertson
Clan Argyll holds what is marked as Waternish on the map, Halistra, and the Lochs Lasair and Greshorhish with the coastal lands beside them now in what is for the name of Clan Robertson as noble vassals, also including the village of Edinbane. It is once said Argyll was elsewhere on the island, coming to Waternish as a reward of service some generations ago, and would have come clear down near to Struan were it not for the misadventures of an alliance with a now gone old Robertson heir and a marriage with the former chieftain's daughter, also vanished. Known as hermits, they also retain acknowledgement for their servitude and diplomacy skills, obviously what is keeping them from being pushed into a loch at present day. Some used to say it was Forbes that woud lead them back to being independent, while others say Raibert is making secretive plans with Clan Robertson for another marriage. The truth of the matter is that the Robertson chieftain has held Raibert's daughter, Qynn, for no less than three years of a seven year sentence of indentured servitude, and that Forbes has been dead just as long. It will be Raibert who will return to his mantle of Tanist, only to become the Chieftain, and bring dawn again to the darkness.
With the name Argyll, they are said to claim both a Campbell and Lamont relation, both of which hasn't been serving them much good in recent years.
Borders: Beyond the two listed lochs, one would enter Eohmark water.
Clan MacKinnon
Dominant Traditional/Geographic Region: Central Skye
Dominant Family: MacKinnon
Chieftain Lady Katerina MacKinnon Mathison
Tanist: none elected
Heir:none
Principal Seat: Castle MacKinnon, Camastianavaig
Principal Township: Camastianavaig
Additional Septs: MacLean
Alliances: Clan Campbell, Clan MacLean - an adopted sept family
Enemies: Clan MacDonald of Sleat, MacKinnon Interlopers
Bracadale, Sligachan, Camastianavaig with the lands between these three town points are to be MacKinnon lands.
Borders: Under the town of Potree, which is the beginning of Eohmark, out to the waters outside of Camastaianavaig, the waters outside of Bracadale
Another one of the older, more romantic family histories on the island, Clan MacKinnon has undergone something of a tumultuous upheaven in the last few generations. Once of sound mind, substance, and size, lots were cast in with Clan MacLeod through service, which would have gone well were it for a history of turn coating and internal strife. The family fights so well among itself that it is rumored they are the foremost authority on heir murders after family Robertson and has succeeded in wiping much of itself down to size.
Still, they manage to either be all loved or all hated. For the last several years, it was all hated, until the end of the alliance with the MacDonalds of Sleat, the unification of the whole family, and the end of the civil war of 1328. With that, they have risen as a clan of servitors, enjoying presence in many local households which seals their status via arrangements of trade or marriage, as well as a clan of restored riches with many rewarded knights and lairds from the last campaigns.
Of late, though, the current Chieftain has no desire to surrender his place to the Lady MacKinnon Mathison, who's lineage places her soundly where he sits. As the lady claims her title and makes a a journey to reform the fortunes, the family will undergo yet another change in the new times.
Clan MacLean
(Chieftain/Tanist/Heirs/Lands/ = none)
Due to be residence of Sleat's Northern half, they are currently a displaced, disjointed family due to their once chance of challenging the false MacKinnon cheiftain for his place, their alliegance to the ruling family when it wasn't popular, and their being the scapegoats of the diminished but still brutal MacDonalds of Sleat. Searches for members of this family so far have proven fruitless, and it is thought that they may have all died, fled, or are living under the safety of other names for years They became adopted sept family of Clan MacKinnon, so one may wonder if some have simply adopted the name of the main house, while other rumors place many of them under the name Argyll in order to live on once ancestral territory
Clan MacSween
Traditional/Geographic Region: Central Skye, Eastern and Western
Dominant Family: MacSween, after later MacLeod influences and just before Apollius, the good family they have found much truck with in the Cullins.
Chieftain: Graeme McSween
Tanist: Dungan McSween
Heir(s): none
Principle Seat: Elgol
Principle Township: Elgol
Alliances: Clan Campbell
Enemies: Clan MacLeod
From below Loch Brittle, with Soay Isle, Loch Scavang, Elgol, Torrin, and Broadford with the land surrounding each, as well as the Isle of Scalpay.
Borders: Mainlaind border is Broadford, with the lands south of Broadford and Torrin shared between them and MacGregor due to various farms.
Clan MacSween has a history of being one of the lesser-liked, smaller island clans that simply won't fall off into the sea or freeze in the hlls as many would have wanted. Always advocates for the unusual and voices of (unwanted) change, they are often on the forefront of innovations, be they a little crazy, certain useful, or destined to be damned. None can say they are stagnant! A very bright, smart, warm hearted lot at days end, they fought very hard for the restoration of the current ruling house and champion its causes so well that they enjoy a comfortable place with Campbell alliances and the ability to care for the town of Torrin, which is in the territory of the Apollius family.
Being as innovative as they are, more than a few MacSweens thought they were worthy of MacLeods, or vice versa. This has led to a rather old and interesting fued, half silly and half necessary depending on whom you ask, though fueding with the higher family had kept them quite poor until recent times.
Clan Campbell
Argyll-at-Skye
Campbells of Drynoch
Dominant Traditional/Geographic Reigion: Central Skye, Mingish, NorthEast
Dominant Family: Campbell
Chieftain: Lord Kendrew Laran Campbell III
Chieftain's wife:Lady Liliana Marishka Campbell
Tanist: Roric Alban Campbell II (Roric the Younger, eldest son by adoption, blood nephew)
Heir(s): Morgan Lucius Campbell, Kiley Fiona Campbell, Glenna Campbell
Principle Seat: Cuin Siar (calm west), Drynoch
Principle Township: Drynoch
Alliances: Clan Lamont, Clan MacKinnon, Clan MacSween, Clan MacLeod, Clan MacDonald of Raasay, Clan Campbell of Loch Awe
Enemies: Clan MacDonald of Sleat, Clan Campbell of Loch Awe, Argyll descendants
Drynoch, Talisker, Grula,with lands surrounding, Loch Brittle, and Glen Brittle on the border of the Cullin Hills region.
Borders: Drynoch, Glen Brittle, and Loch Brittle mark territory ends.
This is the story of an old family with a new branch that formed because of equal mixture opportunity, alliance shifts, and beliefs. The Campbells are an old family, originating in the bedrock of Scottish royalty and fighting over the same patch of land with another old family, the Lamonts. Over several years the Black Campbell became a figurehead in campaigns that expanded holdings and diminished populations. Equal parts revered and feared, the Campbell loyalty to House Bruce and the subsequent King Robert became overshadowed with Lamont dealings, the Lady Inveryne, and Bruce's sister Mary. These things set the stage for the following of another man and an odd loyalty to a man who wouldn't use his name for years, named Kendrew.
Due to twenty-nine years of service to the Bruce and one rebellion against him to save the Lowlands in his thirtieth year of Scottish service, he was given Campbell assistance at the Battle of Dumfrieshire, renown at Loch Awe, and offered the posistion of a high place in Neil's land. Knowing he would never leave Skye if he could help it, he still wearily accepted. While some do not agree with Neil's tendency's, they feel that Kendrew's service to God, Scotland, and his rulers on Skye while ignoring the blood fueds that permeate so many clans lends itself to a new direction of leadership. Whle Neil has claimed they've only immigrated to Skye, believing Kendrew minds them on his behalf, this is false. They have now become one of the largest secondary Campbell houses, if not a break away branch of its own.
Although both Chieftain and Lady are well liked, old and new rifts form in Drynoch based on the opinions of who should sit in his Lady's place, let alone whom should bend the ear of a man fabled 'new' to clan politics himself. While the people are hearty, the rulers of good heart, beware those who cross the family. He has no qualms using a heavy hand, sword armed or no, against those who do ill.
Clan MacGregor
Dominant Traditional/Geographic Region: Sleat- South
Dominant Family: MacGregor, once MacDonald
Chieftain: Laird Searc MacGregor
Chieftain's Wife: Lady Chloestrain MacGregor
Tanist: Robertson Rait MacGregor
Heir: Robertson Rait MacGregor
Alliances:Clan MacDonald of Raasay (resolving blood fued through restitution and marriage) +most other clans on the island
Enemies: Clan Robertson
Isleornay to the city of Sleat itself, including Tokavain, Armadale + Armadale Castle, Ardvasar, Teangue, Sound of Sleat Waters,lands south of Broadford and lands therein, making it one of the most populace regions on the island.
Borders - The lands south of Broadford have a majority MacGregor population, but are quietly shared with MacSween due to the various farms between each clan.
The MacGregors are a major family on the island and in Scott's history, with the ability to trace themselves back to Kings and Dukes with profound, almost astounding ease with the addition of many sept houses.
Searc MacGregor is no man's fool. Having outlived many other men and a couple of other wives, he's parlayed his wit into a comfortable Southern based trade empire that allows him to stand on the verge of as much importance as the Robertsons, thus restoring his families besmirched name though it is rumored his wife, Chloestrain, for all that the MacGregor people love her and her own hand at good business, still plays some hand in the infamous romantic tale between herself and Iian.
Once the MacDonald's of Sleat enjoyed control of the entire reigion, with the families of MacKinnon , McLean and MacGregor pressed under their haughty thumbs. Be it that they grew to powerful or too arrogant, one mistepped alliance nearly took them off the map entirely when allied against the Lord and Lady of the Isles. This being a historical trend of fluctuations, it seems fitting to affirm the MacGregors their due for being staunch, stubborn loyalists with a traditional streak a mile long. Yet heaven forbid one come across the bad side, for that will be the end of that in an order so short you could hardly breathe.
Clan MacDonald
North and South
North- Raasay and Rona
South - Kyleakin
Major Traditional/Geographic Region: Isle of Raasay and Isles of Rona
Dominant Family: MacDonalds of the Raasay and Rona
Chieftain:Dublain MacDonald (Dublain mac Dhugal)
Chieftain's Wife: Lindall MacDonald (MacGregor)
Tanist: Alexander MacDonald (nephew)
Heir: unborn
Principle Seat: MacDonald Castle, Isle of Raasay
Principle Township: Raasay Area
Alliances: Family Aberdeen is their dominant supporter, followed by remnants of the MacLeans, Clan Campbell (Drynoch) Clan MacGregor (restitution and marriage)
Enemies: MacDonalds of Sleat, a rancor with most other clans because of deceptive recent history with other members.
An old family splintered at the seams by wars, ambitions, and greeds, the MacDonalds have earned a reputation as the tinder to which sparks greatly consuming fires. The other MacDonald families have been obliterated on the Isle, save the loyalists who now leave content on the Isles of Raasay and Rona. Dublain risked everything to ally with the rightful heir of the country, including a finger on his left hand and the sight in the same eye, during the Civil Wars of 1328 and prior, during the internal rebellions of 1319. Nature has seen fit to eliminate most of the disenters in the last string of wars, leaving him to enjoy peace though it is at the cost of losing MacDonald north holdings. Still, perhaps some of the older families could see what change can do. Raasay is recovering well from her war blights with England and Scotland thanks to MacDonald patronage. Raasay is possessed of beautiful woodlands, hunting grounds, both islands rear animals and small crops, while the dominant industry of the MacDonalds are the impressive ships they build for both military and trade use.
MacDonalds of Sleat
Major Traditional/Geographic Region: Remnants in Kyleakin
Chieftain: Carver MacDonald (deceased)
Tanist/Heir/Alliances=None
Enemies: Clan MacGregor, a rankor with most every other clan.
Clan MacDonald of Sleat is one of a few surviving old families that faired poorly in the war of 1328, but better than those who are no longer in existence, such as the McKenzies. They are now pushed back souly into the town and area of Kyleakin with influence in Kyle of Loachaslh on the mainland, hoping to push forward enough to return to the South, but the dreams of this were risen and dashed in the exchanges with the MacGregors, MacDonalds, and Robertsons, pushing them to only a fraction remaining in Kyleakin, with most at last having made the journey North to the Isles of Rassay and the Ronas.
Clans of the Mainland
Clan Lamont
Originating Region: Dunoon
Seat + Principle Place: Argyll, Scotland
Chieftain: Lady Rosalind Avalle of Inveryne
Chieftain's Consort Lord Peregrine Lamont-Inveryne
Tanist: Sir Murtagh
Heir: Aldric mac Campbell
Allianes: Clan Campbell (main), Campbells of Drynoch (Argyll-at-Skye)
Enemies: Formerly, Clan Campbell. Presently, any interlopers
Once a favorite of the King, they were ursurped in land, life, and livlihood by the Campbells and were an old family nearly wiped out of exsistence. What would be one of the major points in this families history would be the marriage of Domhnall mac Faolán to a then fourteen year old Rosalind Avalle, making her the Lady of Inveryne. A rather rousing story of deaths, marriages, deaths, war, and adventure cultivate the recent history of the family to the present incarnation to where a woman is the chieftain and her half-campbell son the heir and part of a living peace treaty. While there are certainly those Campbells at Loch Awe who'd like Argyll back, the hand of even the Black one himself is stayed by the Lord Campbell at Skye, to which they are refered to as the branch Argyll-at-Skye, denoting where the Campbells had come from.
The Lady of Inveryne currently resides on the Isle of Skye, where she is a member of esteem and beloved of the Griffin Court. Once a lady in waiting for Lady Mary, the Bruce's sister, she has shaped a stately houshold as Lady in Waiting and Household Held for the Lady Aberdeen.
Clan Campbell
Mainland
Originating Region: Argyll
Principle Seat + Place: Loch Awe
Chieftain: Neil Campbell, The Black Campbell of Loch Awe
Tanist: forthcoming
Heir: : forthcoming
Neil Campbell is a man who was named the Black Campbell with due reason, given his long list of raids and seizing of things in the name of his King and country. Currently posistioned at Loch Awe, he is a figure who keeps to himself until it does him otherwise to emerge. It is the same with his kinsmen, though in recent years they have had to keep a wary eye on the Isle.
-Add'tl Mainland families added as add'tl story presents itself for overall relevance
Notes of Importance
- While additional alliances, enemies, rulers, etc will change, these listed basics will not. They will be added to or amended, but not striken.
- Physical locations of families by way of dominant seats and castles is set. Land might recede or grow as per story development only
- This is not based on tradition, but on our unique alternate history
