Alexis Commenus/ Commenus Family/ alex994
The Commenus family did not begin from aristocratic origins, but came from the plebian class. They were originally a small time landowner on the outskirts of the city, but all that changed when a small child accidentally tripped over a rock in the middle of the field. The Child ran back and cried to his parents and the parents came out to move the rock. On closer investigation, the Father found that there were iron ore in the rock and his gut told him that there would be more iron ore around his farm. He used up all his life savings to buy the neighboring lands at an exorbitant price and then ordered diggings with the little life savings he had. After 1 month of searching, he was about to give up and call bankruptcy, but the day before he was broke, they found iron ore. In a huge abundance right under their house! The Iron ore made Alexiss great-grandfather rich off selling the iron ore to the Monarch in during the Great War for producing weapons and armor. With this huge monetary base, he set out to purchase the many workshops for pottery, eating utensils, and other iron goods. With his great contribution to the Monarch, he was given a sword by the Last King of the Galeion Dynasty, an Iron sword decorated with the emblems of the Royal House now a priceless heirloom of the Commenus Family. The years since the beginning of the Republic has been kind to the Family, some of the nearby forests have been bought to harvest them for their lumber. Even despite such great wealth, the current head of the Family never forgot his ancestors humble origins and built homes for the old, the orphans, and the disabled. What will the future be like for the Family?