#Inktober Day 17 - Swollen / Royal


The decadent outer reaches of the spirit realms are home to a number of ancient dynasties that have ruled vast exiled empires for longer than recorded history. Constantly fighting among themselves, riddled with inbreeding, and dangerous beyond belief, these corrupt and savage nobles are heartless and  barely resemble the humanity from which they are descended.

There are seven major dynastic houses waging perpetual war, drawing influence from celestials and infernals, mortal dreamers and eldritch horrors from beyond the edges of the known, they channel the power of a hundred sources into a thousand Machiavellian schemes. Each dynastic house has power unimaginable to those in the mortal realm, they are only vaguely understood by their affiliation to the concepts of the seven deadly sins.

The House of Gluttony is known for it's rampant consumption, whether food, money, or anything else, they use things up, discarding the waste regardless of any impact it might have on the rest of the world. Those with a deeper understanding of such things claim that the House of Gluttony created capitalism... others claim they merely subverted it to their own ends.

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