Lineage

The name “Lineage” is used for a very old, privately held complex of financial interests credited with maintaining control of significant sites for centuries.

First mention and context

During a stay at Elkhazg, a host explains that the complex is no longer a math and that its stewardship passed into private hands long ago. From details given there, visitors infer that Elkhazg “had been taken over by a long‑lived complex of financial interests,” likely the same organization that “ran” Ecba. In conversation, one speaker refers to its internal workings (bylaws, org chart, financial statements) as the “tedious history of the Lineage,” indicating that the term functions as a proper name for the entity.

Relationships and affiliations

• Elkhazg: Operates under a private arrangement; the resident Heritor, Magnath Foral, serves as host and liaison.
• Ecba: The same long‑running financial complex is believed—by those present at Elkhazg—to be in charge there as well.
• The Foral family: The Heritor’s name connects Elkhazg to the Forals, an old Sæcular family with longstanding ties to mathic affairs.

Characteristics

• Longevity: Described as capable of owning or administering properties for very long spans, surviving political and institutional changes.
• Discretion: Its operations are presented indirectly through hosts and caretakers rather than by public institutional disclosure.

Notes and distinctions

• Not to be confused with The Lineage, a cloister community at Orithena that uses math‑like forms while expressly operating outside the Discipline.

Current status

Active as a private steward or owner of heritage sites such as Elkhazg; widely perceived—by informed observers—to be the same entity that oversees operations at Ecba.