They're the pride-into-arrogance sort. On one hand, when a family's survived for ten or fifteen generations, it's impressive, but when they use that status to prevent those first, second, or third generation families from gaining any foothold in the world, then there's a problem.

[A problem Waver's gone through first hand. He tries to make sure his voice is even through out, but there's a snappishness at the end that's hard to moderate.]