The Kova family still reigns in Kharvoss, the heavily militarized and well-defended city in the heart of the lowland forests. Kharvoss inherited its name from a tyrant who dominated it for years, and upon that legacy the house of Kova maintains its rule to this day — while many dwarves labor for the city, masterful with tools and weapons, and the troops of Jovel defend it.
The Dynasty That Endured
The Kova represent the dynastic continuity of Kharvoss: the authority that persists despite the city's tyrannical past, and alongside the military power of the Orc King. They are the reigning face of a settlement raised at great cost by pioneers who suffered to reach the dense, deadly forest of the lowlands.
Kharvoss never lost its martial character. It is a city where craft, steel, and soldiery are the measure of everything — and the Kova preside over all of it, a crown kept steady between a tyrant's name below and an orc's army beside it. That they have endured at all, in a city with such a past, says as much about the family as any chronicle could.
Known Ties
- Kharvoss — the city where they reign
- Jovel — the Orc King whose troops defend the city
- The Countess — said, without confirmation, to have come from Kharvoss as a child
Mysteries
The exact relationship between the house of Kova and the Orc King Jovel — alliance, subordination, or a tense coexistence — has never been established. There is also the rumor that the Countess of Cripta had some tie to Kharvoss in her childhood, "but people say a great many things": nothing that links her directly to the Kova has ever been confirmed.