Dorseys

The **Dorseys** are a fallen house of the Hundred Families, banished by Saul Buchanan from his nation.

## History

A recent addition to the long list of plain gangs operating in Colorado and Kansas, the Dorseys were formerly an upstanding house of the Hundred Families and part of the Patriarch's domain. That is, until they decided to challenge the rule of Saul Buchanan about twenty years prior. The reason? They had an argument over how fast should democracy come to Colorado Springs. They wanted it now. Saul wanted to wait. His strongest supporters turned into his fiercest enemies, but what was supposed to be an uprising turned into a slaughter.

After fleeing to the Plains to escape the Patriarch’s wrath, Nelius Dorsey molded what was left of his extended family into a vicious gang of hunters and raiders. Their banishment has resulted in a rapid descent into a gang of murderous, apocalypse-worshipping hillbillies in a single generation. Hillbillies quite fond of donning headdresses made from animals. Most consider them to have been destroyed utterly by the Patriarch. However, the Dorseys believe they are harbingers of the Deluge of Blood, a great cataclysm that will wipe away the last remnants of the old world, and are very much interested in proving the Hundred Families wrong.

## Members

### Family members

* Erastus Dorsey
* Jarett Dorsey
* Emogene Dorsey
* Roxana Dorsey

## Organization

The Dorsey’s being an extended clan they treat all their members as part of one big family clan. Like the Scar Collectors, they have a colored theam. but brown and white show up a lot in Dorsey equipment; brown for their furs, white for the bones they wear. Their leader Nelius is viewed as a father figure by every Dorsey, even the ones not related to him by (actual) blood. They joined the savage council they work closely with liberty and compose her intire elite guard. Due to no small part because of their vicious nature, even by plains gang standards. They crave blood which they often cover themselves in from recently mutilated animals.

They are very religious but their interpretation of Christian scripture branches from the local belief that the nuclear apocalypse was a second Deluge of Fire by adding a third Deluge, this one of blood, which they're going to bring about themselves by massacring anyone within reach. They dress like ancient pagans in furs and dried bones, and anoint themselves in the blood and fresh entrails of their victims. Their chants are taken from old Christian Baptist hymnal lyrics, albeit twisted to focus more on "the blood" than the actual religious themes behind them.

## Relations with the outside

* Hundred Families

Formerly one of the Hundred Families, the Dorseys were chased out of the city after an attempted coup against the Patriarch. The hundred families think that they’ve been wiped out. The Dorseys deeply resent them for this and are eager to take revenge, to which they've come to attach a near Religious connotation. At least one known as The Beast Master has taken and killed many hostages.

* Patriarch‘s marshals

The Dorsey’s were once the Patriarch's strongest supporters but then they asked for old-school, American-style general elections. The Patriarch - given that he's a "Tin Tyrant" dictator and not nearly as noble as he pretends - ordered Lucia's father, Percival Wesson, to disrupt one of their meetings; Percival Wesson, who was fanatically loyal to the Patriarch, started shooting, and the Dorseys were driven out.

* the plains gangs

After being driven out and forced into banditry, the Dorseys were brought into Liberty’s savage council to get revenge on the patriarch's marshals and the hundred families. However, they where bloodthirsty and uncooperative, going so far as to ignore Liberty’s warnings not to provoke the Rangers which would ultimately lead to the end of the savage council. Despite this, Liberty seemed to value them as her personal guard is made up entirely out of Dorseys.

## Technology

The Dorsey’s Don't favor one weapon type or another compared to the other gangs. The only exception is that they are never seen using energy weapons, probably to fit in with their "low-tech backwoods hillbilly" theme.