Di'Romila

House di'Romila was a minor ancient Euluskan Imperial noble family. They were responsible for the Palatinate of Shrike's Roost, a small town in the western Danderillon just across the lake from Jarren's Well. 
== Overview ==
=== Zara's Marriage ===
They were a perfectly normal and small noble family for quite a lot of history - reclusive, but fine. However, in the mid 1450s, the Cessalian noblewoman Zaravetta 'Zara' de'Ferrva married into the family, marrying her wife Palatine Ynaretta di'Romila. Both of them, unbeknownst to them, suffered from a hereditary blood disease that would, after tens more generations of inbreeding and isolationism, develop into vampirism. In the late sixteenth century, long after the fall of the Empire, the di'Romila family had become a reclusive and mysterious vampire noble family, who lived in a small castle on the edge of the Firth due east of Jarren's Well.
=== Collapse Era ===
In the 250s C, the family consisted just of the old, blind, frail Gail (Geël) his genius scheming daughter Vishara (Vixara), and his hot-headed hedonistic son Octavian (Okteiviën). Gail was crippled and blind since an encounter with a vampire-hunter early in the prior decade. In 251 C, the family recruited a fledgling group of condottiere soon known as the Wildecards.. The Wildecards killed a party of vampire hunters led by the knight Aurelia Corova, then set off bound for Aomodos. They travelled down the Western Corridor of the Danderillon, fighting off Zhila's werewolves and Yâlagh's headhunters, passing through Bard's Crossing, and causing a massacre at Cranberry Brook where the siblings ate lots of villagers. At Accipiter, a new member of the group, Billy Boftan, tried to confront Octavian to find the purported money they would be paid with; Octavian ripped out his trachea and made Billy's friends dispose of the body. 
When the caravan fled Accipiter and came to the Anoq basin, they were set upon by several united groups of bounty hunters and pursuers. Gail was found by Silvia d'Abavël, a Wildegard rider. Emet and Rhydia of the party tried to convince Silvia that Gail was a dangerous beast, but this then forced her hand into killing him with a silver knife to the brainstem. Octavian and Vishara fled, and blamed Rhydia for their father's death. They were escorted on by a few unarrested members of the group, but they then ruminated in Aomodos for some time in anger, seeking revenge for their father's death, especially upon Rhydia.
Gail's body was exhumed by the hemomancer Nael rem Arvus and his skull was turned into a speaking-skull that could recall legendary lore.
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