Because of these factors, Wax allied himself with House Harms by entering into an engagement with Steris Harms. Waxillium inherited a house on very shaky financial footing, but although his uncle's actions had offended many of the other houses in the city, House Ladrian still retained some notoriety. In faking their death, Edwarn's wife also perished. Edwarn, alongside Telsin, faked their deaths around 341 PC, causing Wax to return to Elendel and take up the mantle of the sixteenth High Lord of House Ladrian. However, Hinston died of a disease, and Edwarn was forced to choose Waxillium Ladrian as the next High Lord after all.

When his son Hinston was born, Edwarn began laying plans to hand the house over to him. At some point, Waxillium's father and mother perished in what was reported as an accident, Telsin claims that this was due to the actions of Harmony's agents. Edwarn raised his brother's children to inherit the house after him, as he had no heir himself. He sullied the reputation of the house by his personal actions towards the other houses of Elendel and wasted money by mismanaging the house's business dealings while he was focused on gambling. It was historically a powerful house, though the actions of Edwarn Ladrian as the fifteenth High Lord brought the house to near destitution. The house grew in size over the next three hundred years from a few thousand people to some twenty thousand as of 341 PC. Following the Catacendre, Edgard Ladrian established House Ladrian with Allrianne Cett.

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