Lei, the founder of Porter's Bar, was bought up in a culture that demanded respect for the spirits on the ancestors, and she continued that tradition when she settled in Porter's Bar.  She set up a small shrine  where a light could burn and she could give occasional thanks to the spirits of her ancestors for their help and assistance.

It was her  fourth child, Lanwe, who developed the  shrine.  When his  mother died, and his father left with her body, Lanwe turned to the small ancestral shrine for comfort.  Almost immediately he  started to  feel relief and succour and vowed to dedicate his  life to the memory of his mother and his other ancestors.

At first he was regarded as  having a problem, and it was assumed he needed more time to recover from his mother's death -  but over time he  started to develop a calmness and wisdom  that him envied and almost venerated by his peers.

Over the next two generations, it  became normal for all children of the royal family to study at the shrine of the ancestors and take  guidance from the teachers and their writings.  From there it was but a short step to believing that  the royal advisors should be  chosen from the teachers and students at the shrine.

Now-a-days junior priests of the Cult of the Royal Ancestors manage the day-to-day functions of the royal household, while the senior priests  are all Royal Advisors.