The Scouring of Briochi

During the Pirate War, a drow named Captain Kievos Stonecutter convinced Dagan Vennet to usurp his mother's throne by murdering his parents, sister, and nephew. Kievos spent the past few years building up supporters in Briochi and among the drow, in the attempts of creating a puppet state with Dagan as Lord. While actually orchestrated by Kievos, Dagan and his supportive younger brother Vankul were manipulated into believing they were the masterminds of this plan for power.

## 12th of Last Moon, 1051

Dagan and Vankul sneaked into their parents' chambers as they slept. Dagan drew a blade across Rivka's throat and in her brief moment of struggle, Casim was woken. While Dagan and Casim struggled over the blade, Vankul took the opportunity to strangle Casim with a bed sheet. He wasn't strong enough to keep Casim neutralized, but he was enough of a distraction for Dagan to shove the blade through Casim's chest.

Next, they went to Gwenaelle's chambers, expecting to find her and her husband Rykzer with their sleeping child. Instead, there was only the sleeping five-year-old Freyr. Some form of morality finally hit Vankul and he tried to talk Dagan out of the murder of a child. The pair argued in hushed tones before finally, Dagan shoved Vankul out of the way and lunged to kill his sleeping nephew.

However, Rykzer had been slipping up behind them as they argued and quickly yanked Dagan's arm back. Dagan spun and plunged the blade between Rykzer's ribs. In the ensuing struggle, Dagan repetitively stabbed his brother-in-law until the half-drow finally slumped to the ground. Freyr screamed from his bed and a servant appeared at the door - seeing the carnage, they fled. Dagan told Vankul to kill the boy, and gave chase to the servant.

The servant had already alerted the guards, and the murder of the Lord and Lady Vennet had been discovered. Dagan turned back to collect Vankul, only to find his brother already on his heels. Vankul's hands were covered in blood and he insisted he had killed their nephew Freyr. The plan busted, they fell back to regroup with Captain Kievos and their supporters.

The captain told the boys the plan in the city wasn't working out. Their rebels were being torn apart by the city guard and there was word of Bluejackets incoming. He suggested abandoning the plan would be the best idea. Dagan, now a murderer and kinslayer, saw no alternative. They could also see that Kievos was sporting a very nasty facial burn and a damaged eye, he had take a serious blow with whoever he was fighting, and this only increased the urgency to escape while the captain's men could still buy time.

During their rush to the boat out of Briochi, there was a thunderous noise of a musket and Vankul fell as Dagan and Kievos ran, Dagan quickly back to his brother to find that his chest now had a hole in it, and there was a quickly growing pool of blood under his little brother's body. Before another thought could be had, Kievos was grabbing Dagan screaming that Vankul was gone, and they had to go, Reynis Dul-Sansiska was here and she was going to kill them both. Dagan ignored the captain and hefted his brother's body, what would have been a touching scene was very quickly soured, as he used his brother's body to shield from the next two sniper shots that tore more of Vankul's flesh apart in Dagan's place. Kievos didn't question it, because Reynis was abandoning her perch and rushing their position, and he could hear his men screaming that their lines had been broken and the Bluejackets were rushing in. Before he knew it he was running just ahead of Dagan, who was running with his brother's mutilated body guarding him from a stream of arrows attempting to punch through Vankul's body into his elder brother. Reynis was closing in fast but they made it to the boat, and Kievos was able to fire off a shot from his pistol to briefly stop Reynis from pursuit, keeping her from closing enough distance to stop the ship from casting off.

Later, Freyr would describe what had happened in his parents' chambers. When Dagan left the room, Vankul made Freyr promise to lay down and not scream - that someone would come find him soon. He then used Rykzer's blood to cover his hands and left the room.

**(WIP)** Dagan flees to Coeur with a massive hate boner for Drow and Blackthornes.

Gwenaelle Vennet is named Lady Vennet of Briochi.