Time to respond en masse, I hereby present The Great Response Bill for the approval of the Elder Council.
1) Paws. The Colvio-Niben line actually begins before Domitus Artorius. The family was originally Nibenese but fortunes brought them to Anvil where they settled down and embraced Colovian culture. This, in turn, meant that the burial rituals of the family began to take on the form of the Colovians, and became more Nordic in their derivation. Thus the Nibenese tradition of Ancestor Silks were abandoned and that great Nibenese example of a family tree lost to the aether.
With Domitus, however, having had his soul shriven from his body by the scourge of Molag Bal, he began to place greater value on the Ancestor Moth as wardens of the soul as a form of prevention against necromancy. Therefore, generations after the family had abandoned their Nibenese traditions, Domitus Artorius received a Moth-burial and thus the Artorius Ancestor Silk was reconstituted. Every Artorius since has received the same funeral rites, no matter how far removed they consider themselves from religious or the Niben, they all guard their souls with Moth and Silk. (Trivia: I actually have Mottephobia and am terrified of Moths, but love their cultural significance in TES)
2) Sotek. I would be grateful if you could show me around the site and help me organise my content. I look forward to working with you in the Story Corner and beyond. Woof Woof.
3) Caesar. Thank you for your kind words, they mean the world to me.
4) Edana. I seem to procrastinate best whenever I have exams to do, but I'm all free now.
5) BlueDremora. I'm not sure about working with a Daedra ;) But I'd be more than happy to consider some of your designs, I'm actually taking some submissions to find a costume designer/set designer for my Alessia play.
6) Zonnonn. I will eventually join the RP group :) but not until my play is all but done, the Artorius family is on the back burner until I am finished.
7) Paws Part 2: Electric Boogaloo. Thank you, it's just a test with iambic pentameter and blank verse. In Shakespeare plays educated characters tend to speak in one of those whilst lower class people tend to speak in prose, just playing with my options.