The founder of this family was a man known as Barderan. In the early days of the Kirin Tor, this man's mentor and master, Marin Barov, was involved in the study of what he termed Mirror Magic. However, due to how he sought the power, he was trapped on the other side of the mirror, and became something else. Barderan, however, was able to defeat his former mentor, and attain mastery of this new kind of magic. Both the Kirin Tor and the early Barov family were impressed by this, and so Barderan founded this noble house.