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The Noble House of Sutherbrooke, Electors on The Wonder Wheel and Lords of Brooklyn.
• Rulers of The Coney Isle, Defenders of Sheepshead Bay, Keepers of Broad Channel & Jamaica Bay, and Princes of The Rockaways.
House Sutherbrooke has long-ago given up any holdings or land in The Rockaways, but were allowed to retain their ancestral titles as a concession during the Imperial Conquest of Queens.

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House Sutherbrooke rules over the borough of Brooklyn, though they are mostly consolidated to her southern ports and outlying islands.

History
From the dustiest, forgotten annals of yesteryear to the political landscape of the present day, the history of Brooklyn and her leadership has always been one rife with bloodshed. While other boroughs and slivers of their land were slowly swallowed up by self-proclaimed kings, dukes, and emperors, the borders of Brooklyn are said to have remained unmoved since their founding hundreds of years ago. For most of modern history, Brooklyn instead faced hardships within her own walls between feuding factions; Namely, the noble houses of Norbrooke, Westerbrooke, Easterbrooke and Sutherbrooke, who each held dominion over their respective portions of Brooklyn.

These four regions are said to have battled for generations with little progress on any of their four fronts -- The tides of battles would turn in matters of days, keeps taken in wartime were typically taken back within months, and borders pushed back during would-be conquests would find themselves returned within the year. These pyrrhic victories did little for Brooklyn other than whittle her population and resources down to where they were unable to resist the Imperial Conquest, resulting in a brief war within the borough known as the War for Brooklyn. Though the fledgling Empire was an entirely new threat to the rest of Brooklyn, the House of Sutherbrooke had relatively warm relations with the Empire by the start of the war, previously ceding territories in The Rockaways taken from Queens in exchange for a budding trade agreement.

During the War for Brooklyn, the House of Sutherbrooke arranged for secret negotiations with Emperor Charles Albanie, allowing the imperial fleet to consolidate ships within Jamaica Bay and safe passage through the South Brooklyn Channel, in exchange for South Brooklyn's ports being unmolested and support for House Sutherbrooke's rulership of Brooklyn should their combined forces be successful in the war. Over the course of the year, the imperially-backed Sutherbrooke forces did just that, smashing the unorganized pagan tribes of East Brooklyn, routing the North Brooklyn infantry, and defeating the Westerbrookes in a naval invasion. When the warring was done, the three Lords of Brooklyn laid down their arms and knelt to the Sutherbrookes, rising instead as Earls of Eastern, Northern, and Western Brooklyn, and solidifying Brooklyn's rule once and for all.
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