Disforza

**House di'Sforza**, also written **Disforza** was a famous Imperial house. Founded long ago by **Francesco of Sforza**, who was one of the original lords of the Emperíja, they enjoyed power for a time in the peninsula, the Fallo and Waterdeep. Their ancestral home was around the bustling port of Sanctum. The family was not notable until the 1500s, where it became embroiled in countless tales.

## The Sinner's Generation (Pre-Fall)

Just before the family's fall, they were very well-liked. Colombo's reconquest of the holy city of Imola was famed, in 1511, just months before their outcasting. At the time, the central family was as follows:

* The patriarch, General Colombo Disforza. A bearlike beast of a man, he was a well-respected military leader. He came to lead the family after his father Dorro died in 1501.
* His wife, Prella Seausca Disforza, an elegant Vortais elven woman

The extended family also included Colombo's brother, the revered scribe and accountant Gianluca Disforza and his wife Arronda-Maiä Maria Disforza.

The family's two homes were their main one in Sanctum and Disforza Manor outside Waterdeep.

## The Hidden Generation

Then there were their children, who had to hide, run, and deal with the shame of their parents.

* Anaïs Disforza, the eldest. A knight and war mage, she stood on the Signoria (parliament) in the capital in her father's stead
* Machavellio Disforza, the middle child. With his father's wit and looks, he was a cunning student of politics
* Isilen Disforza, the youngest. Very simple-minded, but an incredible shot with a bow.
* There was also another bastard child, the product of Colombo's affair with a laundry maid. **Warning: That link contains spoilers for the ongoing Disforza Conspiracy: An Indratera Story campaign.**

## Fall

In the year 1511, news ostensibly came to light that the family had plotted to kill the Archon of the Church (effectively the pope). For their crimes, the family was branded as traitors. Colombo, Prella and Arronda-Maiä were hanged in the main square of Luskan. Machavellio, Anaïs and Isilen separately went on the run, whilst Gianluca was captured and sent to work in Fort Helena as an *accountant*, a fate surely worse than death.

There were rumours that the family did not actually plot as they were accused. Some believed that the Calinezzi family, led at the time by Jacopo Calinezzi, had something to do with it. *Who knows?*

## Liberation and the Family's Resurgence

Max became a bandit for a time but was caught in 1513 under a fake name and exiled aboard the Eagle Cried Hope as a petty prisoner.

Alongside the Lakayan Liberators, he plotted and schemed and whipped up the Bayut, Uiyet, Larawak and Verdis tribes into a revolution. His doing so was cutthroat and calculated. This culminated in the Battle of Fort Helena and the establishment of the Lakayan Federation.

Max married the Davison Enforcer who had been hired by the Empire to stop his attempts, Leona Adler-Disforza. The pair, alongside the rescued Gianluca, led the Federation to greatness and rekindled the family.

## The Oracular Generation

The children of Lee and Max were quite interesting too, two of whom were tied up in the Oracles' plots.

* Mercio Disforza, twin of Érmione, born in 1514. He became a Commodore of the Lakayan Navy, a respectable fellow, and died at sea.
* Érmione Disforza, twin of Mercio. She became an important politician in Lakay's cabinet, and a member of high society. She ended up becoming a financial benefactor of the shadowy terror organisation known as the Oracles, but was murdered in the late 1550s and consequently impersonated by Marija Grimes.
* Francisco Léon Disforza, the youngest son. The least favourite, he rebelled by leaving to Datria and becoming a military officer in the 10th Imperial Datrian Dragoons. He sat on Waterdeep's parliament and helped retake the city from the Oracles alongside the Night Watch.

## The Erudite Generation

Francisco and his wife Laureäna d'Acampo had two children in 1561.

* Cosimo Disforza
* Olympia Disforza. A keen linguist, historian and anthropologist, she also worked at a museum in Halcyon. She married the farmer Heather Gray.