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.

Note: Not to be confused with Lineage in the general senses (genealogy or historic mathic property chains), nor with The Lineage, a cloister community at Orithena.

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.

Origins and legacy

• Deep roots are ascribed to the tradition: some avout speak of a heritage that “goes back to the time of Metekoranes.”
• The present arrangement is described as a Sæcular dowment—a legally and financially structured trust—thought to have been established around the time of the Third Sack, linking it closely to mathic concerns while operating outside the Discipline.

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 informed observers—to be in charge there as well.
• Forals: An old Sæcular family closely tied to the Lineage’s properties and interests.
• Ignetha Foral: A high‑ranking Sæcular official observed acting on “Lineage business” during recent diplomacy aboard the Daban Urnud.
• Magnath Foral: Seen serving as Heritor of Elkhazg and participating in the same diplomatic context.

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.
• Organization: Characterized as a Sæcular dowment with bylaws and financial governance; seen by some as a “Sæcular incarnation” of an older Lineage tradition.

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. In current accounts it is represented in high‑level negotiations by members of the Foral family, including Ignetha and Magnath Foral, during proceedings held aboard the Daban Urnud.