House Straton

House Straton is a major noble family in Blackwall Hold. They hold regent over the Barony of Solon and are seated in the castle of Solon Redoubt.

The family is one of the oldest in the hold, dating back to its original settlement by Tirrenor in 303 ACR. The family gained a great deal of wealth from mining and steel manufacture and are the owners of Straton Steelworks, the most respected weapons manufacturer in Tirrenor.

The family was once the high family of the hold, residing in the Iron Keep of Stoneshade as well as Solon, but after the last Straton Thane, Gerald, was killed in 492, a succession conflict was begun entitled the War of the Three Thanes. House Kallistratos came out on top of the conflict and from thereon House Straton has sworn fealty to the new high family.

House Straton still maintain a great deal of political power in the hold as of the present (546 ACR), arguably the second most powerful in the hold. The current patriarch is Ser Darius Straton, the Baron of Solon and lord of Solon Redoubt. His daughter, Eliza Staton, is the Thaness of Blackwall, married to Thane Nilos Kallistratos.