House Elemdar is a noble house of Clairnia, ruling a barony of its own. Its baron is remembered, in one quiet tragedy, as a kind man: when the appraiser Angela Ballard and the linguist Thomas Jackson came to his court to study an ancient cursed artifact and were killed by it, the baron did what he could to comfort their orphaned son, Corian - though he kept a careful distance, bound by the terms of the parents’ will.