The oldest elven house
still standing.

A trading house of Skyrim, seated in the shadow of the Adamantine Tower. The family ruled a province from that tower once. It rules nothing now. We produce, we trade, and we serve no faction on this continent.

Read the Bank's charter Sign a Scrip The Sinderill Enter the Tower

Three thousand years on Balfiera

The family ruled High Rock from the Adamantine Tower on Balfiera, an island in the Iliac Bay older than the Empire itself. Clan Direnni is the oldest elven house still standing on Tamriel. The House keeps the Tower. It does not own it.

Altmer, not Dominion

The Direnni have never answered to Alinor, and the Thalmor regard them as a failed house that went native. The Direnni regard the Thalmor as new money. Alinor has no claim on Balfiera.

The Dumonte of Gavaudon

An old Breton house in Stormhaven, central High Rock, with documented Direnni blood. They keep the name Dumonte. They do not become Kin of the Tower by marriage, oath, or service.

We produce and we trade.

Fixed public prices, one open ledger, trade with all, weekly clearing of debts between members. Lineage does not transfer.

Who the house answers to

Medora DirenniHead of the family
Sorceress of the Adamantine Tower. The house is hers. She has not left the Tower.
The Heir of BalfieraHer son, in Skyrim
Sent north to keep the house's ledger and its authority over prices and contracts. He created the Direnni Bank and owns it, opening it in Skyrim himself. He must earn the keeping.

The Direnni Bank

The Direnni Bank is the Heir of Balfiera's, opened in Skyrim. Accounts for holds, businesses and individuals; deposits, withdrawals, internal transfers, interest accrued daily, and a statement that shows who moved what and when. Your business is done in person: a banker opens a counter session, you accept it, and outside a session the Bank is shut — which is what a bank is.

The charter, with today's rates

Direnni Bazaar

The Direnni Bazaar is a house market under the Direnni Bank.

A clerk admits a person before they may see the board or place an order.

A person may post a buy order or a sell order in whole septims.

An order rests until it is filled or cancelled.

A buy that meets a sell is filled at the Bazaar.

Septims may be paid from a Direnni Bank account or handed to the clerk.

Goods are handed to the clerk with a sell order, and collected from the clerk when a buy is filled.

Standing in the house

Kin of the TowerAltmer of Direnni blood
Dumonte of GavaudonAn old Breton house of Stormhaven
RetainersSworn to the Heir, of any race

A Retainer is sworn rather than born, of any race, and may hold any office.

The published roster

The house words

Alinor has no claim on Balfiera.
A debt weighed is a debt paid.
We won one war and have avoided every one since.

Skyrim, 4E 211

The Dragon Crisis and the civil war are both over. Recovery is not assured.

Dragons ran through the holds during the war, then the attacks stopped. Unconfirmed reports put remnants flying east toward Eastmarch and over the Velothi Mountains. There has been no confirmed sighting since.
The Legion won at great cost in men and supplies. The holds are fractured, short of coin, and thinly guarded.
Ulfric Stormcloak and Galmar Stone-Fist are dead. The rebellion has no army. Officers scattered. Many soldiers hid, left, or burned their uniforms. Some still praise Talos and want the mid-Third-Era order back.
Banditry is heavier than before, because the holds could not protect or answer their people.
The East Empire Company took most of its business out of Skyrim. The province could no longer meet the old terms. The market gap is open. It is not decided whether local houses fill it or another great company does. That gap is why the House is here, and why it trades with everyone at one public price.
The Thalmor are quieter on the ground and still politically present. They get busier only if they decide an ideology has to be imposed. They are not buying up the province.
There is no High King. The Empire's grip is loose, and some holds are looking after themselves. Rumors of older dangers are rumors. The House does not repeat them as fact.

The house, briefly

Three thousand years
The family rules High Rock from the Adamantine Tower on Balfiera — an island in the Iliac Bay older than the Empire itself. The House keeps the Tower. It does not own it.
1E 482
Aiden Direnni breaks the Alessian invasion at Glenumbra Moors. That is the one war. It is history. It is not a title, a branch name, or a present-day faction.
The intermarriage
They marry into the humans of High Rock so thoroughly that their descendants become the Bretons. Among those lines stands the Dumonte of Gavaudon.
The withdrawal
Mainland rule passes to Breton vassals. The Direnni withdraw to their island. Ryain, Aiden, and Raven are of that history. We won one war and have avoided every one since.
4E 211
The Heir of Balfiera is in Skyrim. He keeps the ledger and must earn the keeping. The House is here because a market is open, and it trades with everyone at one public price.