Ascart House

The Ascart House is a military house, one of the Theocracy’s Five Eminent Noble Houses, known even outside the Theocracy. Their insignia is an eye hovering above candlelight.

The Ascart House is not blessed with fertility and so patriarchs rarely ever had siblings. This makes the House value each member much more and there is no dirty rivalry that is present in other noble houses.

Out of the Five Eminent Noble Houses, it has the best intelligence network. It can rally 3000 Origin Level 6 soldiers through the militia. During the founding of the Theocracy and the events of the March Turmoil, it obtained a large amount of territory. This made it the leader, in a sense, of the Five Eminent Noble Houses.

It owns the famous Labyrinth Manor in the Holy Capital Loron. The family heirloom is a gemstone that saved Ponte and Victoria during the events of the March Turmoil.

The House is shrouded in mystery. Once every few centuries, someone from the Ascart House comes that defies all common sense.

The Arde Clan had split into seven different clans. The Ascart House consists of a major part of the 7 pieces. This is why the Ascart Bloodline is the Kingmaker bloodline.

Ascart Fiefdom
The Ascart Fiefdom, despite being considered the bottom compared to the other Eminent Noble Houses' fiefdoms, is the largest making the Ascart House the de facto leader of the Five Eminent Noble Houses. It consists of land that was given by the Xeclyde House a thousand years ago as well as land that transferred ownership from the Elric House after the March Turmoil Incident. The Ascart Fiefdom is humid and it consisted mostly of mountainous terrain filled with huge swathes of forest, was a nightmare to develop and so the previous patriarchs ignored it and focused on the military aspect of the House. For this reason, the economic activity of the Ascart Fiefdom had only been limited to their plains, which made up only 30% of their landmass. The remaining 70% has been unused for so long to the point that the people of the Fiefdom became proud of being so successful despite not using their full capabilities. It was mentioned that past the mountainous region is the Rosa Merchant Confederacy.

The Ascart City, one of most distinguished cities of the Saint Mesit Theocracy is famous for being the safest city amongst the cities owned by the Five Eminent Noble Houses though it is also the least prosperous. Nevertheless, the merchants enjoy the safety and evaluate the city highly.

There are several villages in the fiefdom.

Once Roel became the proxy fief lord of the Ascart Fiefdom, he brought about many changes that helped improve the fiefdom significantly even bringing the attention and praise of the Sorofya Merchant Association.

He introduced the Three Axes Plan:


 * 1) Reorganize public security. Roel got rid of thieves, murderers, human traffickers and other criminals that plagued the street and stressed the community. Money confiscated from criminals were redistributed to the victims.
 * 2) Ascart Fiefdom Road Network Construction Proposal. Roel used  the Affection Points Shop to achieve his goal of building up a well-connected transport network between the cities, towns, and villages within the Ascart Fiefdom. Similar to globalization of the modern world, the Ascart City's connection with surrounding villages helped the fiefdom economically and it was all at nearly zero cost.
 * 3) Public Sanitation. The sewage system was acceptable but the disposal of trash was not safe for the populace. Once again, with the help of the System, Roel was able to achieve his goal of setting up an incinerator in order to burn the garbage. This greatly improved the standards of living of the people.

Roel also started supporting poor villages by sending merchants to loan money and support their business.

Though the Ascart House was already known for it's military might, Roel, as the Holy Son of the Unyielding Cult and Strength Cult greatly improved the combat prowess of the House. Some members of the cults have been blessed by Grandar and Peytra. Their rate of transcendental progression has been greatly improved. Cynthia, for example, is said to be able to reach Origin Level 2 in her lifetime.

Bloodline Origin Attribute
The Ascart Family has a bloodline Origin Attribute, Crown. Since Carlione Ascart went berserk at the beginning of the Third Epoch, the family lost it's method of awakening. There have been two people before Roel who awakened the Crown Origin Attribute. These are Winstor and Ro Ascart.

The Crown Attribute progresses as the possessor reads true pieces of history. It also allows the user and someone else to experience a piece of history first-hand. This is known as the Witness State.

The past two possessors of the Origin Attribute have left the House in search for more historical knowledge in order to grow stronger. Though this may be unrelated, Roel also noted that the two possessors are surrounded by powerful women and usually several of them.

March Turmoil
For details, See Saint Mesit Theocracy's History on the March Turmoil.

The Ascart House's Ponte Ascart helped Victoria Xeclyde in the past when she sought Ponte for help concerning her brother Wade.

The Ascart's were the only ones who helped Victoria while others helped Wade or were neutral. This allowed the House to be close to the Xeclydes.

Rosa-Austine Empire Civil War
For details, See Saint Mesit Theocracy's Relationship with Rosa Merchant Confederacy.

The Theocracy could not directly help the Rosaians as the feud was considered to be a civil war and it was taboo for a nation to involve themselves with the matters of another nation. The Ascart House was a different story though. Blanc Ascart led his troops to fight against the Austine Empire and helped liberate Rosa. Tindi Sorofya, the patriarch of the Sorofya House at the time, and Blanc felt a real bond and signed a marriage contract between the two houses.

Carter, Blanc's son, was not able to fulfill the marriage contract due to gender clashes as both Houses had birthed a male offstring. Therefore, the contract was meant for the next generation, Roel's generation.

Notable Members

 * Roel Ascart
 * Alicia Ascart
 * Carter Ascart
 * Ponte Ascart
 * Winstor Ascart
 * Ro Ascart
 * Caroline Ascart
 * Blanc Ascart

Trivia

 * The Ascart House has a vault with many old artifacts, Even the patriarch could not tell if a certain item was or was not in the vault.
 * [Chapter 30] The Ascart House including all of it's property and territory would be worth 10 million gold coins. Liquid assets can give several hundred thousand gold coins.
 * The most favored family of Xia, she always see them like her own blood related child unlike other race and family.
 * Crown Origin truth is part Xia soul that planted by her toward her favored child with intention making that child become her heir to rule the world after passing more part of her power.
 * Ascart created by Xia by using "goodside power". That's also the reason Ascart descendant righteous personality came from although this influence is not absolute but just like tendency.
 * Kingmaker clan, is the Ascart Family name in the distant ancient past. Their role is to crown the king of race which gained respect from all race, this is one of Xia scheme toward her favorite child so when he ascend to the throne of world ruler, all those race will support him.
 * Crown Origin have one terrible side effect, that is their lifespan comparable to that human, the reason is that their soul get corroded by that very crown origin, if not their life span will comparable to that those Mystical race. That Xia one most biggest regret.
 * Savior Power which rule over the sun originally intended to be inherited by Ascart Ancestor but unexpected accident during inheritation happened making "Xia sudden departure", happen.