The Mason Household
((This is a two-sided list from a large well-kept book stored in the Bree storage and officially only the mayor of Bree has access to it))
Bree is home to the Masons since 2782 when the honest fisherman Drake Mason, aged twenty, settled in Bree for unknown reasons and set up a small fishing company that turned into a profiting corporation within about five years. On the summer of 2791 there was a decisive sabotage of supplies and the Bree watch found and punished the causers, but the company was hit too badly and its profits were falling. On the winter of 2795 it went bankrupt. Seemingly Drake has decided to leave the life of a businessman and married Victoria Lelland, a middle-class shopkeeper. Drake and Victoria had twins – Jake and Rosella.
Both Jake and Rosella were taught the fishing methods and sources said they were fishing together every morning and Victoria helped them with the selling in the afternoon. Drake would also occasionally help them, but since Jake and Rosella were four years old he began to leave Bree for both short and long periods, unknown to anybody where he was heading. When Jake was twenty years old he married Joanna Gulfbridge – unemployed - and raised one child, Richard. Rosella married to Frank Edward Barnington, a high-class businessman, but he was ambushed and killed in the fall of 2829 on a trip to Trestlebridge. They also had one child – Daniel – who after the death of his father left Bree and never returned.
Richard Mason kept the fisherman tradition going and was very successful. When he reached eighteen years of age he left Bree for unknown reasons, but sources said he went to live in a campsite near Ost Guruth, most likely because of the better fishing opportunities – which are there no more nowadays. He returned on the spring of 2851 and exactly seven years later he married Lillian Longbridge – unemployed. They had four children, one of which died at the age of eight months for unknown causes.
Their oldest child was their daughter, Lillian, who apparently showed no eagerness for fishing and preferred freedom in every aspect. Stanley and Edward were more similar to their father and loved to fish. Stanley Mason married Natalie Wright – unemployed – at the age of twenty-five. They had two daughters – Georgia and Chelsea – both of which didn’t share much eagerness for fishing and instead became near-prostitutes. When they grew up, they left prostitution and got themselves married – Georgia to Jack Graham – blacksmith - and Chelsea to Anton Richfield – travelling merchant. Edward Mason married Leila Barnington and raised a son – Jonathan.
Sources said Jonathan hesitated about the fishing tradition and was more into drinking. On the fall of 2897 his father, Edward Mason, violated him and was sent on trial. He was sentenced to five years in prison, Jonathan lived with his mother until he was nineteen and then moved in with his friend – Elizabeth Thornton – whom he married in the summer of 2908. They had six children – (oldest to youngest) Amy, Davick, Rosella, Derrick, Craig and Lillian.
Sources said there was lot of hatred between the brothers and Derrick – eleven - and Craig – twelve - ran away, never to return. Amy, Rosella and Lillian seemingly never married, but stayed together until their late deaths. Davick was physically strong and protected his sisters until they left the household, then on the summer of 2927 he joined the Bree watch and served there until the spring of 2935, when he was found suspicious of robbing the Bree armoury. He was not found guilty, but he refused to return and stayed unemployed. At the age of thirty he married Helen Westington – the mayor’s secretary. They had a son – Rocar, and sources said he was nearly identical to his father in appearance.
Rocar again showed no interest in fishing, but unlike his father he took the path of crime. In the winter of 2954 he stole an important document from the mayor’s desk, but the mayor forgave him. On the following spring Rocar supposedly murdered a shopkeeper and was banished from Bree for ten years, against the will of his parents. He returned at the age of twenty-five, exactly ten years after the incident, and married Hilary Gulfbridge – barmaid, supposedly from the same family as Joanna Gulfbridge (see paragraph two). They had two sons – Haldrag and Maxmilian.
Haldrag was similar to his father and at the age of eight he was banished from Bree after being caught in an attempt to murder a child. His father was furious and decided to leave with him. Rocar and Haldrag Mason never returned to Bree afterwards. Maxmillian was more similar to his mother and his grandfather and he was the one who restored the fishing tradition within the family. At the age of twenty-eight he married Elliot Newward – travelling saleswoman – and on the fall of 2993 the last known descendant of Drake Mason was born. Maxmillian and Elliot were seemingly in a quarrel over their son’s name – father wanted his son to be named Drake, mother wished to name him Traggan. Maxmillian gave in and they named him Traggan, but he is known to be using both names.
Traggan was interested in fishing, but at the age of seventeen he began to cause fuss around the town. In the winter of 3010 he stole the diary of the Bree-town watch captain and a year later he attacked a senior at the Prancing Pony inn, supposedly while under the effects of alcohol. He was put on trial, but many people stood up for him and so he was cleared of all charges. Since then he has never violated the law.
