"Memento Noctis, Memento Mortuorum."
The Mourning Court is a great nation in central and eastern Eteru, and occupies the entirety of the Alfuin Badlands as well as the Mornrot Fields. Despite being one of the largest nations on Abmarah, the population of the Court is rather small. The Court is home to numerous races, but is customarily led by Sunless Drow. The Veiled Queen of the Court is considered to be the spiritual leader of Môrism, her consecrated bloodline believed to have the last remaining silk weaved by Serenox herself.
The continent of Eteru once had an Underdark like any other land, until part of the surface collapsed into the Underdark during the cataclysmic Omniborn Crisis. This turned much of the continent into badlands, and exposed the drow there to the harsh surface. Their society, known as the Mourning Court, developed a new culture of venerating the moons and scorning the sun now known as Môrism.
The Court is ruled by a seven powerful 'Mourning Houses', with the strongest being the royal House of Mudara belonging to the consecrated bloodline of the Veiled Queen. These houses together form a council known as the Noxtribunal. Commoners of the nation would rarely call themselves 'courtiers' or 'of the Court', with those demonyms reserved for the nobility. Commoners would usually refer to themselves with regional demonyms instead.
The Mourning Houses of the Noxtribunal are:
The Mourning House of Mudara from Mothhai.
The Mourning House of Môrnox from Pel-Zûn.
The Mourning House of Ithilai from Lancai.
The Mourning House of [TBD] from Faur-Zûn.
The Mourning House of [TBD] from Hwanda.
The Mourning House of [TBD] from Thêli.
The Mourning House of [TBD] from Lobanni.
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Since the founding of the nation, there have been a few Veiled Queens.
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