House of Rahl
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The House of Rahl were the ancestoral rulers of the land of D'Hara in the New World. The Rahl's lordship over D'Hara appears to have come into effect sometime before the conclusion of the Great War. The head of the family, and of D'Hara, was styled as the Lord Rahl; the first known being Alric Rahl.
[edit] History
Near to the end of the Great War, the wizards of the Old World unleashed a new human weapon known as dream walkers. Dream walkers possessed the ability to control the minds of others, and as a protection for his people, Alric Rahl devised a powerful new magic that bonded them to him; so long as they were loyal to him, dream walkers could not enter his peoples minds. Part of the bond also ensured that the Lord Rahl always produced at least one gifted heir so that the bond would be carried on through the generations and ensure that the D'Haran people were always protected from the powers of a dream walker. However, as magic must always be in balance, an unforseen side affect of the bond ensuring that at least one gifted heir would always be born was that the Lord Rahl would occassionally also produce offspring who were pristinely ungifted.
After several generations, when it was uncovered the danger the pristinely ungifted posed to the future of magic, it became the policy of the House of Rahl to kill any offspring produced that carried this trait.
[edit] Family Tree
Alric Rahl │ │(many gernerations) │ │──────────────────────────────┐ │ Nathan Rahl │ │(many generations) │ │ Panis Rahl ┬ Darken Rahl's mother │ Richard Cypher's mother ┬ Darken Rahl ┬ Jennsen Rahl's mother │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Kahlan Amnell ─ Richard Rahl│ │Jennsen Rahl ┬ Tom │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ (many generations)│ Drefan Rahl Oba Rahl │(many generations) │ │ │ │ Jax Amnell Alexander Rahl
