House of Barrow

The House of Barrow is the third House to hold that name, and the current land-owners of the Barrow Plains region of the Arathi Highlands. The current patriarch of the House is Bruce d'Barrow, 9th Baron of Barrowhold, born 551KY. Responsible for protecting the ancient burial grounds of the Plains from Forsaken corpse-raiders, the House maintains an abnormally large Household Guard and semi-permanent raised army. While this has served admirably to prevent the long-lost dead from being used in the Forsaken's war on the Kingdom of Stromgarde, it has left the family in dire financial straits and increasingly unable to address the social issues gripping the province - or to prevent the rise of a collectivist faction of anarchists under Holzer Woodrell.

The Barrow Plains
A surprisingly large area for such a minor house, the Barrow Plains is largely an uninhabited and sombre expanse of ancient tombs, burial mounds, and mass graves from the Troll Wars. The bulk of the population are concentrated in the White Monastery, home to an isolationist order of Arathorian grave-keeping monks, and in the Barrowhold, a fortified township surrounded by farmlands located in the rough centre of the Plains.

Linked Families

 * House of Fiendeyrr, by the 497KY marriage of Clarise d'Barrow to Maximilian d'Fiendeyrr, 3rd Baron d'Fiendeyrr.
 * House of Arevass, by the 516KY marriage of Charles d'Arevass to Sarah d'Barrow.

Previous Families of the Same Name

 * First House of Barrow: Extinguished during the Thane Uprising, the First House of Barrow had held the land for approximately four hundred years.
 * Second House of Barrow: Extinguished in the second century, the Second House of Barrow had held the land for only seventy-five years prior to their dismissal for failing to prevent a Necromancer from wreaking havoc in the Barrow Plains in the conflict known at the time as the 'Great Uprising of the Dead' and now referred to as the 'Skirmish of Dead Heroes'.