Silver Moon Clan

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The Silver Moon Clan is an guild of Huntsmen and Huntresses, primarily composed of Faunus from the Silvermane and Moonfang families. They are the main subjects of KyranKandosa2's Silver Moon Chronicles.

Silvermane Family:

 * Founder: Fenris Silvermane, Deceased
 * Former:
 * Alberta Moonfang(Married Lucian Moonfang), Deceased
 * Arcturus Moonfang(Future Clan Leader, formerly Arcturus Silvermane III), Alive
 * Current:
 * Alexander Silvermane(Former Clan Leader, Father of Rufus Silvermane, adopted Lucian Moonfang), Deceased
 * Rufus Silvermane(Father of Arcturus I, Orion, and Alberta), Deceased
 * Lupa Silvermane(Mother of Arcturus !, Orion, and Alberta), Deceased
 * Arcturus Silvermane I, Deceased
 * Orion Silvermane(Former Clan Leader, Ancestor of Arcturus II and Crassus), Deceased
 * Arcturus Silvermane II(Former Clan Leader, Grandfather of Crassus Silvermane), Deceased
 * Crassus Silvermane(Current Clan Leader, Father of Bernard), Alive
 * Flora Silvermane(Mother of Bernard), Alive
 * Bernard Silvermane(Father of Arcturus III, Albus, Bailey, and Mackenzie), Deceased
 * Albus Silvermane(Twin of Arcturus III), Alive
 * Bailey Silvermane, Alive
 * Mackenzie Silvermane, Deceased

Moonfang Family:

 * Founder: Lucian Moonfang, Deceased
 * Former:
 * Columbiana Silvermane(Married Bernard Silvermane, mother of Arcturus III, Albus, Bailey, and Mackenzie), Deceased
 * Current:
 * Gregory Moonfang(Future Clan Leader), Alive
 * Ursula Moonfang(Married Gregory), Alive
 * Bjorn Stark(Ursula's first child), Alive
 * Balina Savannah(Ursula's adopted daughter), Alive
 * Orion Moonfang(Son of Gregory and Ursula, twin of Arctos), Alive
 * Arctos Moonfang(Son of Gregory and Ursula, twin of Orion), Alive

Initiates:

 * Artorius Stark, Deceased
 * Rowan Forest, Alive
 * Rambert Von Snowden, Alive
 * Adena Byrd, Alive
 * Elysia Byrd, Alive
 * Kieran Castellano, Alive
 * Roderick Martin, Alive
 * Electra Demeter, Alive
 * Sahara Fennec, Alive

Known History:
One of the oldest known Hunter families, the Silver Moon Clan was founded fifteen generations ago, by the silver-haired Grey Wolf Faunus Fenris Silvermane, who was the first Huntsman of his family. Fenris operated primarily in Vale's northeastern frontier, where they have lived, worked, and died for the majority of their history. The next notable event was during the time of Alexander Silvermane, four generations after Fenris. Returning from what was to be his final mission as a Huntsman, Alexander put down a group of bandits in the process of murdering a traveling family of Red Wolf Faunus. Only an toddler, called Lucian by his mother before her death, survived. Taking the new orphan with him, Alexander hurried back to Bastion, the ancestral home of the Silver Moon Clan, which was also under attack at the time. Alexander's only son, Rufus, and Rufus' wife, Lupa, had died in the defense of the village. During this battle, his oldest grandson, Arcturus I, had also given his life at age 15 to kill three bandits who threatened his siblings, the toddlers Orion and Alberta. After repelling the bandit assault, Alexander stopped Hunting to raise Lucian and his grandchildren while rebuilding the village of Bastion. Taking Alexander's teaching that a warrior was defined by his weapon literally, Lucian took his surname from of his basket-hilted katars, Moonfang, and founded the second core family of the Silver Moon Clan after marrying his foster sister Alberta. Five generations ago, the Silver Moon Clan participated in the Great War on the side of the Pro-Individualists, which wiped out their allies and left them with only two active members, the then-current wielders of their ancestral weapons. The Silver Moon Clan only truly began to rebuild when it's fourteenth generation, Gregory Moonfang, his sister Columbiana, and Bernard Silvermane, wishing to make a greater impact on the world than fighting on the frontier would allow, attended Beacon Academy at the same time as Raven Byrd and her cousin, Albert Von Snowden. After their graduation, the Silver Moon Clan relocated to Patch, preferring the relative seclusion of the island to the city of Vale. 25 years prior to Canon, Bernard and Columbiana married, having their first children, twins Arcturus III and Albus, soon after. Three years later, their sister Bailey was born. At this time, Gregory, who'd become the Signal Academy Forgemaster, took in and adopted the family of his recently deceased partner, Artorius Stark, marrying his widow Ursula and raising the toddlers Bjorn Stark and Balina Savannah as his own. At age four, the four oldest children of the 15th generation, Arcturus III, Albus, Bjorn, and Balina, began their education as warriors. Two years later, the quartet had their Auras unlocked by their parents, and Bjorn's twin half-brothers, Wolf Faunus Orion and Bear Faunus Arctos, were born. When the quartet were seven, tragedy struck the Clan. During a party to celebrate Columbiana's pregnancy with her second daughter, Mackenzie, she and her husband Bernard had lowered their Auras, and were murdered in front of the Clan by an hitman with a sniper rifle. The hitman escaped, and the Clan circled their wagons, with the Moonfangs moving in permanently with the Silvermanes. Gregory continued to track his sister's killer, and eventually brought him down in Vacuo, where he also rescued another of the rogue Huntsman's victims, combat school student and Fennec Fox Faunus Sahara Fennec, encouraging her to grow and heal by giving her the goal of attending Beacon and leaving her with his locket, his bounty for the kill, and some of the Clan's training techniques. Though Signal Academy was nearby, Arcturus and Albus preferred to continue to be taught as their parents had, by their family. Bjorn and Balina stayed with them in their studies with Crassus and Flora Silvermane. At age 14, this training began to include Grimm-hunting patrols around the island. Once they were age 17, the quartet applied for and were accepted into Beacon, while their younger siblings, Bailey, Orion, and Arctos, followed by attending Signal.

Armed:
Historically, the Silvermane family prefers to arm themselves swords, shields, and gunblades. They tend to favor the falcata, khopesh, and other weapons which join the cutting surface of a sword with the striking power of an axe. Likewise, the Moonfang family tends to prefer weaponized gauntlets and punch-blade weapons like the katar and it's larger cousin, the pata.

Clan Lockets:
Each Clan member carries an locket with the Clan heraldry, a heater shield backed by a torch and halberd chained together at the pommels, engraved on the outer cover. The inside face of the cover displays the owner's personal symbol. Originally, these lockets contained a simple compass, rather than a picture. Now, they are a bit bigger, using an much smaller compass towards the bottom, to make room for an hybrid digital/analog watch. These lockets are issued to Clan initiates as part of their initiation ceremony. An Clansman can mark allies and potential initiates by giving them their locket to carry, so they can identify themselves to other Clan members.

Clan Reliquary:
An relatively new custom, the Silver Moon Clan maintains a Reliquary, an mueseum/armory containing copies of each previous version of their legacy weapons, as well as the weapons of fallen Clansmen. It also has portions dedicated to housing their lockets and journals. The collected information of these journals has been compiled into two books, the Clan Chronicle, which details the Clan's history, and the Clan Codex, which details information on the Grimm, training techniques, and other lore relevant to Huntsmen and Huntresses. These are also kept in the Reliquary.

Legacy Weapons:
Some of the Clan's oldest customs regard the inheritance of weapons. Typically, the candidates for inheriting a legacy weapon must bear the blood and surname of the original wielder. As names can be changed, as was the case with Arcturus Silvermane III becoming Arcturus Moonfang, the oldest candidate with blood claim in each generation is the first choice. If an legacy weapon is to be upgraded or otherwise modified to fit the new wielder better, the Clan makes an copy of that weapon's current configuration, to be placed in the mueseum/armory referred to as the Clan Reliquary, and makes the new version out of the metal of the original. Though this was previously impossible due to frontier conditions, the Clan has used the preserved writings of previous members to reconstruct replicas of every version of their legacy weapons, down to the originals.
 * StormDirge: Originally an falcata sword and targe shield set charged with Dust, these are the oldest legacy weapons the Clan possesses, as they were first wielded by the founder of the Silvermane family, Fenris Silvermane. StormDirge is now carried by Bailey Silvermane, in the form of a Multi-Action Dust Falcata(Storm) and an semi-collapsible, gauntlet-mounted Gunblade Buckler(Dirge), which is shaped much like a heater shield rotated 90 degrees.
 * Moonfang: The namesake of the Moonfang Family, these weapons were originally an pair of Dust-infused, basket-hilted katars, eventually evolving into a set of weaponized gauntlets with improving technology and access to resources. The current wielder is Arcturus Moonfang, who uses them in the same configuration his mother Columbiana did, as a pair of elbow-length gauntlets with a multi-action Dust mechanism just below the elbow to charge the hand and it's segmented retractable claws with Dust.
 * Tombstone and Epitaph: The youngest legacy weapon set in the Clan's possession, it remains relatively unchanged from the design used by the original wielder, Artorius Stark. Epitaph is an bladed bullpup assault rifle chambered for 7.62-caliber, typically fed by either a magazine or an belt fitted into the receiver by an adapter magazine and stored in a backpack. Tombstone is a ballistics shield mounted on the upper arm opposite the user's gun hand. In it's second mode, it expands, attaches to the gauntlet, and articulates at the elbow, allowing the lower section's bladed edge and built-in automatic shotgun to be used. It's current wielder is Artorius' only biological child, Bjorn Stark.