TEXT: CLAN ROODBERG 
  BY THE LATE ARDIMUN DERGOOST 
   
  To look upon the origin of the Roodberg Clan of 
  Perrenland with anything other than an objective 
  and honest eye would be an exercise in folly.  
  One I am not prepared to take.  As an outsider 
  to this clan but without bearing any particular 
  animosity or favouritism to it, I judge myself to be 
  as objective as a Perrenese historian can be.  
  Thus I make no apologies for my history of this 
  fascinating people and hope that they as well as 
  their neighbours see this work as simply a 
  historical recount of a long history. 
   
  The Roodbergs are true sons of the Aerdi, that 
  conquering race of Oeridians who swept across 
  the Flanaess forming the great kingdom in the 
  process.  Of all the Perrenese they hold closest 
  to the ways of that people.  Their customs, 
  language and above all else racial pride set 
  them firmly into an Aerdi cultural framework.  To 
  say, however, that they were similar to the Aerdi 
  of today in the rest of the Flanaess would be 
  ignorant, as enough of the old Flan race has 
  seeped into their veins to make them unique 
  amongst those who claim to be Aerdi. 
   
  The Roodbergs are a proud nation if they can be 
  called that.  They hold dearest their bloodlines, 
  their children and their origins.  Amongst the 
  Perrenese the Roodbergs hold most fiercely to 
  clan loyalty and the hereditary rights bestowed 
  by birth upon those lucky few who rule them.  
  Their Pfaltzgraf, who they style their prince, rules 
  them under totalitarian governance, which they 
  see, to quote an old Roodberg farmer I once 
  met, “as a right and proper thing.”   
   
  As for their origins, history states that the 
  Roodbergs were one of the original Aerdi 
  invaders of Perrenland in 97 CY.  As invaders 
  they were eventually contained in the mountain 
  pass of the Central and Northern Clatspurs after 
  drifting through from the Quaglands.  In fact 
  driven from the Quaglands may be more 
  accurate as the Vosser Clan has several 
  hundred Roodberg heads from a battle they call 
  the DerRoodOosting that dates to this period, a 
  matter of much contention from the Roodbergs.  
  Over a decade, however, the Roodbergs drove 
  off the native inhabitants (mostly Meerijders and 
  Vossers) and settled the rich hinterlands down 
  by the eastern lakeside.  Strangely if questioned 
  on this they have a tendency of insisting that 
  they are a Highland people.  It is possible that 
  they may have been a high dwelling Yatil people 
  in their past before they migrated and that this is 
  a cultural relic.  For today few of them occupy 
  any territory that could be termed Highland, 
  certainly no place names seem to support any 
  form of long-term historical highland settlement 
  in the Clatspur range.  Even today it is the 
  Vosser peoples who occupy most of the 
  mountain valleys of this range, especially along 
  the Kershane pass.  This has been the cause of 
  much tension and even conflict, as the Vossers 
  dislike the over-bearing ways of the Roodbergs.   
   
  The Roodbergs quickly urbanized after the 
  invasions.  They were well placed to accept the 
  mantle of over-lordship of Eastern Perrenland 
  during the rule of the Aerdi Kingdom of 
  Furyondy.  Roodberg nobles today are proud to 
  list off the marriages and alliances that placed 
  them in such a prominent position over other 
  Perrenlanders.  Some even follow the custom of 
  enlisting their children in foreign service with a 
  Furyondian noble, a continuation of the old 
  fostering custom well know amongst the Aerdi. 
   
  To say that the Roodbergs joined freely into the 
  rebellion of 320 CY that eventually broke the two 
  centuries of rule of the Kingdom of Furyondy’s is 
  out of context.  It is my suspicion that the decay 
  that was rife in the institutions and nobility of the 
  Kingdom of Furyondy that contributed to the loss 
  of much of it territory was reflected in microcosm 
  in the Roodbergs.  Their duplicity in seeing 
  Perrenland free of Aerdi rule but themselves 
  established as an independent Canton of a yet 
  to be unified Perrenland is well documented in 
  their own oral and written history.  They have 
  ruled over and expanded the canton of 
  Clatspurgen quite ruthlessly from that hilltop 
  fastness of the Rood Berg in the past three 
  centuries. 
   
  The Roodbergs are one of the founding clans 
  behind the Covenant of Concantenation by the 
  eight dominant clans of Perrenland that formed 
  Perrenland in 400 CY.  The Roodbergs are also 
  renowned for their resistance to the invasion of 
  Iggwilv in the 480s.  It was their stubborn 
  resistance to her armies that allowed the 
  resistance movement to eventually drive her out.  
  The Roodbergs thus are quite proud of their role 
  in the growth of Perrenland after this date, and it 
  has helped remove much of the animosity 
  towards them from other clans for their Aerdi 
  traditions.   
   
  The Roodbergs follow the laws of Perrenland 
  very closely and their Pfaltzgraf has often been 
  seen as the defender of traditional laws in the 
  House of Pfaltzgrafs.  The Old Kerk has never 
  been paid more than lip service by the 
  Roodbergs, as Zilchus seem to be their most 
  favoured god now that they have become a 
  more mercantile clan.  The Roodbergs have a 
  history as a war like people and Hextor has 
  always held a certain appeal to them and 
  shrines to the scourge of battle exist in many 
  Roodberg settlements.  Clan Roodberg is a 
  good example of Perrenland’s diversity through 
  unification.  
  
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