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The way it works is that there's a royal house, and many more houses that control various parts of Mînbar. As you can imagine, everyone's constantly trying to gain control of the throne, so the courts of Mînbar are filled with intrigue and conflict. Eventually, there came a king named Arnakhôr II - the Mad-King. He began running the realm into the ground, and started going crazy. He was killing people at random, and when he killed the entire royal-family of the most militaristic great house (except for the head's son, Aglarân, because for whatever reason Arnakhôr thought he was inoscent, because, you know, crazy people), Aglarân sparked a military rebellion, which became a huge civil war. Victory was upon the military usurpers, but in one last desperate effort, Arnakhôr called in help from his distant cousin - Denethor. The rebels still won against the combined loyalist and Gondorian forces, but in the process, amidst the the chaos of the capital being torn apart by the loyalist forces composed of the City-Watch and Gondorians, and the rebeling military, Aglarân was slain. The military won, but there was no next in line, as Aglarân's entire family was killed, and he had no children. So, the closest of his relatives they could find were very distant cousins - Veantur and Miriel, who were crowned just in time for the War of the Ring to start. They hold a strong grudge against Gondor for their helping the loyalists, not to mention that there was a several thousand year old bitter, brutal cultural rivalry before that. But on the flip side, they hate Sauron.