Lord Charles Penton

The Pentons are often connected to the Trentannian Royal family and they indeed are their closer cousins. However they hold little to no holdings and actual power in Trentannia - instead the house was at first given a rule over the new colonies in Neridea.

It was Charles that fully manifested the large gap between the families and who openly declared his desire to be free of his cousin's rule. Due to his wealth and power as well as his connections to the King, his voice had to be heard. And since Trentannia was severely weakened after the war it was impossible to keep the Colonies at bay - with such a strong leader, the anti-tarantian movement got upper hand and ultimately led to the independence.

Besides independence of the colonies, this also gave tremendous power to Pentons - many viewed as a main motivation behind Charles' moves - and the house is to become synonym with the rule of former trentannian colonies.

The Emperor

Since one century ago, the Pentons and Grishanks (former noble family of Quechina) were often joined by marriage. Thus there was blood of old Imperial Quechina in Charles Penton. In many ways he intended to model the new country after the old Empire. Most notably, the title of Emperor itself has no real historical equivalent in Trentannia, instead it is purely based on the aristocratic traditions of Carreons.