Noble house with the largest fishing fleet in the city, also known to "borrow" goods from rival houses at sea.
Owners of the largest fleet of ships in the region, House Atianna officially earns a living with fishing and indeed they are an important source of seafood for the city. Their endeavours go beyond fish however, and their fishing fleets have been known to "borrow" goods from rival houses at sea – that is, they engage in piracy and plunder. House Atianna controls the Western Docks, where goods are transferred from sea vessels onto river vessels and vice versa. Black Atianna Beluvial Atianna (formally Selena Atianna) Cyrus Lee are three names that most would be aware of. Marcus being the leader of the house overall, while Storm Atianna leads the house in Duirt. From time to time, her mother Beluvial and father Black might visit while Cyrus travels the ocean waves and periodically docks in the harbour.
House Atianna rose from men (and women) who "privateered" on the ocean, and have in recent generations gone legit. This places them at odds with more established families who question their nobility.
The head of the house, Marcus Atianna is said to be business-like, resolute and a bit nepotistic. Like all Silverite houses, House Atianna does not claim specific territories, but rather has mercantile interests all over the republic.
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Ships Articles code of conduct on the Atianna line:
*I. The fund of all payments under the articles is the stock of what is gotten by the expedition, following the same law as other vessels, that is, "No prey, no pay."
* II, Reimbursement is provided the Captain for the use of the ship, and the salary of the carpenter, or shipwright, who mended, careened, and rigged the vessel (the latter usually about 150 pieces of in gold). A sum for provisions and victuals is specified, usually 200 pieces of gold. A salary and compensation is specified for the surgeon and his medicine chest, usually 250 pieces of gold.
* III. A standard compensation is provided for maimed and mutilated buccaneers. "Thus they order for the loss of a right arm six hundred pieces in gold, or six slaves; for the loss of a left arm five hundred in gold, or five slaves; for a leg five hundred in gold, or five slaves; for an eye one hundred in, or one slave; for a finger of the hand, fifty in gold.
* IV. That every man shall obey his commander in all respects, as if the ship was his own, and as if he received monthly wages.
* V. That every man shall keep his watch night and day; and at the hour of eight in the evening every one shall retire from gaming and drinking, in order to attend his respective station.
* VI. If any Gold, Jewels, Silver, &c. be found on board of any prize or prizes to the value of a piece of gold, and the finder does not deliver it to the Quarter Master in the space of 24 hours he shall suffer what punishment the Captain and the Majority of the Company shall think fit.
*VII. The Captain and Quartermaster to receive two shares of a prize: the master, boatswain, and gunner, one share and a half, and other officers one and quarter.
* VIII. No striking one another on board, but every man's quarrels to be ended on shore, at sword and pistol. (The quarter-master of the ship, when the parties will not come to any reconciliation, accompanies them on shore with what assistance he thinks proper, and turns the disputant back to back, at so many paces distance; at the word of command, they turn and fire immediately, (or else the piece is knocked out of their hands). If both miss, they come to their cutlasses, and then he is declared the victor who draws the first blood.)
* IX. Every man to be called fairly in turn, by list, on board of prizes because, (over and above their proper share) they were on these occasions allowed a shift of clothes: but if they defrauded the company to the value of a dollar in plate, jewels, or money, marooning was their punishment. If the robbery was only betwixt one another, they contented themselves with slitting the ears and nose of him that was guilty, and set him on shore, not in an uninhabited place, but somewhere, where he was sure to encounter hardships.
* X. Every man has a vote in affairs of moment; has equal title to the fresh provisions, or strong liquors, at any time seized, and may use them at pleasure, unless a scarcity (not an uncommon thing among them) makes it necessary, for the good of all, to vote a retrenchment.