In the days of since taking a position in the Republic of Aquilla, after the fall of Griffonstone, the Ironclaw clan rose to a position of high power within the new republic, and even had several members stand in the council. Wealth, power and prestige were at their highest for the clan in those early days, but it was eventually that all this would end.

It was during the reign of Lord Ospery Ironclaw the 34th that the clan began to...fall apart. Lord Ospery was considered, and proven to be insane. He was prone to fits of rage and frothing at the beak, flying into fits where he would spasm on the ground and claw at the ground or attack anything near him with his claws. On more then two occasions he had seriously hurt or insulted important griffons due to his madness.

Lord Ospery was also notoriously plotting, always claiming it was his clans right to rule the Republic, an idea that his own sons and clan didn't agree with. They prided themselves on being loyal, and they were loyal to the republic. Luckily Ospery's madness made any plans he had backfire. Sadly his plans always ended up with him wasting money, eating away at the clans coffers.

It wasn't long before Ospery soon alienated himself from his whole clan during a heated argument with his two sons. In a fit of madness, Ospery took his cane to his eldest son, causing a deep wound upon his eldest sons temple. The younger one watched in horror as his brother fell unconscious, and Ospery after his attack had a moment of clarity and rushed to his son, cradling his unconscious body as he moaned and screamed, "My son! I have killed my own son!" It was in the last few moments before passing that the eldest son regained consciousness and muttered only a few words, "I die as a devoted son and most humble servant." Not soon after the eldest of Ospery's sons has passed away and the passing of his heir threw Ospery into a deep depression where he lashed out at anything, even his own family.

Ospery in his grief banished all his family from their home in the mountains near Rockwington. He drove them all out with hired mercenaries, and then used those mercs to keep any griffons away from Castle Iron. After that, nothing else is known and it is speculated that Ospery drowned himself in luxuries and mad ravings, squandering his families wealth till it was all but gone. Though never fully confirmed, it was said he passed away in the castle not a few years after the passing of his eldest son.

For the rest of the Ironclaws, things were only to grow worse. Banished from their ancestral home, and their patron leaving them with huge debts that took all their family wealth and more to pay off, the Ironclaws fell into a near destitution, living in the barest area of Talonopolis and beyond. Worse yet, the clan saw a mishap of its members passing away without warning. By the time it was all done, the clan had gone from twelve hundred members, to barely eighty five.

It was such a great upheaval for a clan that had once stood as a powerful force, and as the years went by, the Ironclaws and all their history and public knowledge slowly faded away. To the majority of griffonkind and beyond, the name Ironclaw was soon forgotten all together. Any knowledge of the family during the times after what it called The Fall is not written.

It would not be till modern times that the Ironclaws would emerge again as a public force.