House Eagleclaw

History
Originally, centuries ago, the Eagleclaw Dynasty were only Dukes of Readewetter, and Lords of Starclaw, Winterbell, and Osnabeak. When the Eagleclaw family fully conquered all of Strawberry, they became Dukes of Strawberry, and bent the knee to the regime of the Grover family and their Griffonian Empire.

The Duchy of Strawberry soon became one of the Grover family's most critical allies, fighting in their wars to reshape Griffonia. In the 940s or 950s, for their service, Grover III's eldest daughter was married off to the Duke of Eagleclaw, and the people of Strawberry became even more loyal to the Grover family. From this marriage would spring Gabriela Eagleclaw, along with her brother Edmure, a little-known griffon who kept out of Strawberry politics.

During the Republican Revolution, Gabriela Eagleclaw, then only about 18, was quick to side with the Imperial forces of Archon Eros VII, along with the young emperor and what remained of his regency council. Strawberry participated in many great battles near the south of their Duchy, Bronzehill, and Griffenheim itself.

After the war, Gabriela Eagleclaw was cemented as a strong, young, and capable ruler. An ambitious, powerful griffon with a great friendship for Grover V, her cousin, she became a force to be reckoned with in the political stage. Often times absent from Strawberry entirely, Gabriela focused her efforts in Griffenheim, where she schemed and plotted with the nobility. She became one of the leaders of the nobility in Griffenheim and beyond, which put her at odds with the Archon her family had supported to drive out the Republicans. The Archon despised the squabbling, petty, nobility, and became one of Gabriela's greatest enemies.

Gabriela is also 2nd in line to the Imperial throne, as Gabriela's mother was Grover IV's sister, and the line of Grover V left only one heir. With such a powerful position on both the social ladder, the nobility of Griffenheim, and the Imperial line of succession, the House of Eagleclaw is perhaps the second most powerful noble house in the entire Empire - Gabriela has her work cut out for her.

Members in 1007 ALB

 * Duchess Gabriela Eagleclaw, an ambitious, powerful member of the Griffonian nobility and current Duchess of Strawberry, cousin to Grover V, Regina Eagleclaw, and Gene Eagleclaw
 * Edmure Eageclaw, Gabriela's younger brother, not very political, inactive in the scene of Strawberry
 * Prelate Julius Eagleclaw, Gabriela's uncle and Prelate of Osnabeak
 * Baroness Regina Eagleclaw, Gabriela's cousin and trusted friend, a harmonic reformist, possibly daughter to Julius
 * Gene Eagleclaw, Gabriela's cousin and a military officer and reformer, likes tank doctrines, possibly son to Julius