House Locke was a hastily made status as the daughter of a wealthy merchant was married to a lesser member of the royal family of Lordaeron (House Menethil). Reginald Locke, said merchant, was elevated to the status of Baron, later being promoted further in the peerage of Lodaeron as the marriage between his daughter and the Menethil lord flourished. However, Reginald fell ill of what was descriped as a "sickly gut" and his eldest son Cornelius, a knight of some reknown, was established as the first Duke of Rose's Point, a dilapidated duchy in Northern Lordaeron upon his father's untimely death.