Westgaard Bloodline

**Game Off: The Westgaard Bloodline serves as our primary villain in the Trefoil Academy of Magery Saga. They are not an option to ally with, and historically approval is not given to tether one's character concept to them.**

## WESTGAARD BLOODLINE

### Who Are They?

A bloodline is an extended family. The Westgaard Bloodline, in particular, is over 1,500 players strong.

Player Society defines geography different that regular mundane society. The Westgaard Bloodline holds vast estates on the Cinavetti Board (e.g. spans the Scandinavian countries). In particular, they have numerous estates are located in Denmark, Finland, and a little into Norway.

While there are naturally a range of personalities and alignments among individual members, the culture of the bloodline tends to encourage/reward certain behaviors and have negative consequences for others. (It is the nature versus nurture.)

Common characteristics/norms that are encouraged and seen out of the Westgaard Bloodline:

* Alignment: Chaotic Evil
* Ruthless and ambitious
* Perceived weakness is meant to be preyed upon. Mercy is merely a trap to lure one's prey closer
* Ends justify the means
* Believe in the usage of illegal magic - Magic is inherently neither good or bad, it is how you use it.
* Fanatical about destroying all the realms
* Condescending and arrogant to those who are perceived as weaker
* Backstab the other person before you are backstabbed first
* People exist to amuse you or a means for you to get what you want
* Illegal mages

The Westgaard Bloodline is not to be trusted. Those who underestimate them do so at their own peril.

They are the second largest and second most powerful bloodline on the Cinavetti Board. In addition, they are close allies with the Cinavetti Bloodline (largest) and the Kneppt Bloodline (3rd largest). They have many allies among the Ministry of Magic and with other bloodlines.

### The War With the Vek Bloodline

The Westgaard Bloodline are the sworn enemies of the Vek bloodline owing to their ancient betrayal and near-eradication of the Veks.

Please press "Expand" located directly to learn more about betrayals that started the feud.

Seeing other clans in trouble, the Vek Bloodline extended their aid and help them get through hard times. This was the forming of a close alliance between the Cinavetti, Kneppt, Vek Bloodlines,
With the help of their allies, the Cinavetti and Kneppt Bloodlines, the Vek Bloodline continued to expand and conquered most of what is present day Europe. Warlady Gendra De Na then organized and presided over the first governing council that consisted of the 12 largest clans aka bloodlines. Under the just leadership of Warlady Gendra De Na, peace, justic and stability was brought to a wildly chaotic land. Most welcomed their rule and benefits that it brought. The land soon began to prosper.
For several hundreds of years, under the leadership of the Vek Bloodline, the governing council sought to protect this world from invasion from other realms. Unknown to the Vek Bloodline, greed for power and jealousy had taken root in two of their oldest and now largest allies, the Cinavetti and Kneppts. Seeing the power that the Veks had, the Cinavettis in particular desired it and bided their time. Their opportunity soon came.
Raids from various realms were frequent. Although most were able to be successfully guarded against, a few would manage to slip past the defenses in the disputed territories. A remote village was destroyed during the course of one of these raids. When the Vek Bloodline arrived too late, they immediately moved to help with the recovery. That is when they discovered one of the surviving children had been left orphaned by the conflict. The ruling Vek family of the Vek Bloodline opted to adopt the boy and raise him as one of their own. The boy’s name was Ocavior Westgaard Vek.
Although he was treated well and just like the other children in his adopted Vek family, Ocavior Westgaard Vek never forgave the Vek Bloodline for not protecting and saving his village from Niflhiem. In his heart, he yearned for revenge.
Once grown, Ocavior Westgaard Vek saw an opportunity to achieve power and revenge at the same time. In exchange for their aid in obtaining recognition of a Westgaard Bloodline, Ocavior Westgaard Vek sold out the Vek Bloodline to the Cinavetti and Kneppt Bloodlines, Ocavior then orchestrated the brutal torture and killing of the entire Vek Bloodline (500 men, women, and children). When the Vek Bloodline called out to their long term aid, silence met their pleas. Betrayed from within and by their closest allies, the Vek Bloodline had been successfully dethroned.
Soon afterwards, Octavior and his allies discovered that a 10 year old Vek girl, Katari Vek, managed to escape the carnage. Although severely injured and traumatized from what she had witnessed, she managed to smuggle away the bloodline’s remaining heirloom in defiance. Heirlooms are a symbol of leadership that the bloodline rallies around, and victory can only be claimed when all the heirlooms are destroyed. The three betrayers were denied the opportunity to claim ultimate victory.
With Octavior Westgaard leading the manhunt for this agnes, Katari Vek went into hiding and vowed that one day justice would be served, and balance would be restored to the land. Since then the **Westgaards**, Kneppts and Cinavettis have continued to harry the Veks and have tried to annihilate them countless of times over the eons but the Veks have prevailed.
The Vek Bloodline feels honored bound to stand against the crimes caused by the **Westgaard Bloodline**. They have not forgotten that Octavior Westgaard had once been claimed as a Vek, and that he was their responsibility. They also seek justice for the countless innocent lives that have been loss because they refused to allow themselves be annihilated.

### Why Do The Westgaards Hate the Academy?

Trefoil Academy of Magery and Sorcery has and continues to provided sanctuary to those who refused to yield to the **Westgaard Bloodline**.

Initially drawn into the on-going blood feud, Trefoil Academy of Magery and Sorcery continues to stand for what is right. They continue to race against the **Westgaard Bloodline** in order to get a hold of the two Doomsday devices first. Lord Perttu Westgaard is searching for the Doomsday Devices in order to take over the world and bring about an apocalypse across all the realms. If he does get his hands on either device, he will reactivate it.

The Westgaard Bloodline has an extensive resume of direct attacks against the academy. The following is just a sampling of some of the crimes in recent history:

* Destroying the house gems
* Kidnapping, interrogating, torturing, ordering the murder of faculty members and any known associates
* Destroying *the* Sanity - the academy’s good luck charm. This was filmed and put to salsa music before being shown to the students. Then, on the academy’s birthday, the ashes of Sanity was wrapped in birthday paper and delivered to the horrified students
* Destroying a certain Scottish Castle that had provided refuge to the academy.
* Framing the academy for multiple crimes they did not commit so that other schools would not be willing to host the academy.
* Sic-ing the mage hunters on youth for a very painful death in order to bring about the apocalypse

### Why Do The Westgaards Wish To Start the Apocalypse?

The Westgaard Bloodline are fanatics. They are full of single-minded zeal for this cause.

Westgaard historians had noticed that the number of other world raids and even full assaults had increased ever since that activation. While the barrier thickness between the realms ebbs and flows to a degree, it is overall thinner than what it has been in the past. This makes sense since the World Tree was damaged when the first Doomsday Device was activated.
Like other bloodlines within Player Society, the Westgaard Bloodline does believe in primary purpose of the Game, which is to protect Gaia from being raided/invaded by the other realms. Over thousands of years, Player Society was forced to go underground as mages began to split off from their bloodlines and live independently from them. With the increasing number of mages do not know about the Game, the Westgaards have steadily become of the opinion that this realm has grown too soft and is unable to defend itself properly. Therefore, a “bucket of cold water” aka a drastic action is needed to shock people into the proper course of action.
If the World Tree is damaged, then the barriers between the different realms will fall. It might mean the end of all the realms and a tremendous loss of life, but out of chaos, the strongest will emerge. Gaia would need to defend itself or perish.

### Known Westgaards

* Lord Perttu Westgaard
* Lord Styrlak Westgaard
* Isidor Westgaard
* Mikko Westgaard
* Aidan Westgaard

### Westgaard Allies

The following bloodlines are allied with the Westgaards on the Cinavetti Board: Cinavetti (Tier 1 Rank 1), Kneppts (Tier 1 Rank 3), Haugen (Tier 1 Rank 5), and Mazon (Tier 1 Rank 7) bloodlines.

Other allies consist on other boards as well which is what allows the Westgaards to operate outside their “home” territory. One bloodline alliance is with the Engout Bloodline of the Engout Board. Another is the Kenemon Bloodline of the Engout Board.​​​​​​​