The Eddings
The Eddings were the first family banished from the View, and they have spent every year since then making sure Phoenix Brighton regrets the decision.
Once a prominent Pure Blood community, their leader served as Brighton's right hand in the mountain villages above Crush Valley. The exile is most commonly attributed to a single scandal: a Pure Blood union that produced a Remnant child, calling the entire family's bloodline purity into question. Brighton cast them down to the Slums without hesitation.
What Brighton did not anticipate was resilience. The Eddings used their remaining wealth, their labor, and their ingenuity to build the Slums into something functional. They proved that worth comes from work, not lineage. The stark "E" tattoo over a mountaintop silhouette, carried on the right shoulder of most family members, marks both identity and intent. The Eddings have evolved from disgraced Pure Bloods into a conglomerate of tough, rough-edged individuals willing to bust heads or rocks to accomplish their goals.
And those goals have sharpened. From their position high above the View, the Eddings are quietly gathering resources. Whispers in the tunnels speak of bombs being planted in the vast network of passages beneath the mountains, positioned to trigger an avalanche that would crush the View and everything underneath it, including Crush Valley itself. Brighton cast them out. They intend to bring the mountain down on his head.
Once a prominent Pure Blood community, their leader served as Brighton's right hand in the mountain villages above Crush Valley. The exile is most commonly attributed to a single scandal: a Pure Blood union that produced a Remnant child, calling the entire family's bloodline purity into question. Brighton cast them down to the Slums without hesitation.
What Brighton did not anticipate was resilience. The Eddings used their remaining wealth, their labor, and their ingenuity to build the Slums into something functional. They proved that worth comes from work, not lineage. The stark "E" tattoo over a mountaintop silhouette, carried on the right shoulder of most family members, marks both identity and intent. The Eddings have evolved from disgraced Pure Bloods into a conglomerate of tough, rough-edged individuals willing to bust heads or rocks to accomplish their goals.
And those goals have sharpened. From their position high above the View, the Eddings are quietly gathering resources. Whispers in the tunnels speak of bombs being planted in the vast network of passages beneath the mountains, positioned to trigger an avalanche that would crush the View and everything underneath it, including Crush Valley itself. Brighton cast them out. They intend to bring the mountain down on his head.
History
The Eddings were once among the most prominent Pure Blood families in the View, their leader serving as Phoenix Brighton's right hand. Their fall came swiftly. A Pure Blood tryst reportedly produced a Remnant child, casting the family's bloodline purity into doubt. Brighton exiled the entire family to the Slums, where they were expected to fade into obscurity. Instead, the Eddings built the Slums' infrastructure from nothing, transforming disgrace into a foundation for something far more dangerous than Brighton intended.
