The Kazmierz family is a vampiric family made up of the dregs of the other families. The family is made of Von Carstians who have posed a threat to the leaders, but did not have enough supporters to do anything, Lahmia vampires which had failed the Queen of Silver Pinnacle one to many times, Necharchs which were unable to kill their masters, however by far the majority of members have the bloodline of Abborish. While the Kazmierz family holds no goals like that of the Lahamia or Von Carstians the Kazmierz do wish to carve an empire in the shadows of the old and new world. How the family goes about accomplishing this goal varies on the member, Necharchs may establish themselves as information brokers for nobles, Lahmia members may set themselves up as a noble or merchant family. While the members may vary their numbers do not, at the most their numbers are no more than 30 at the least no less than 10. While the family may be different one thing unites the founder and her children.
The Founding of The Family:
It was during end of the Red Dukes bloody war against King Lois that the family has it's roots. As the Red Duke slain, his army crumbled his vampiric supporters scattered. Marion was counts daughter, her family having answered the call of the king left the castle lightly guarded. It was as the castle slept that a vampire slip past the ill trained peasant guards, in life Marion's father had laughed as he proposed a marriage between the two. As she slept the vampire slaughtered her family, as she laid sleeping unaware of what occurred the vampire crept into her room with the if he could not have her in life he would have her in unlife.
As Marion awoke the next morning she was shocked to find herself in the families crypt, angered believing her sisters had played yet another cruel joke on her she set out to find a servant to question. Noticing the first rays of morning she set out for the kitchen to find a servant, but as she neared she found herself growing hungry at a metallic smell in the air. As she entered the room she found the kitchen turned into an abattoir, most of the staff hung from the ceiling their life's blood collecting in cauldrons, pots, and even a few helmets. She was shocked at how hungry the sight made her and before she realized what she was doing she began drinking from one of the cauldrons. Hearing the sound of laughter from the dining hall she set out hoping to find this was all some terrible nightmare.
As she entered the hall she found her sisters, youngest brother, and mother all sitting around the table with empty plates and a man that seemed familiar sitting at her father's place and an empty chair beside him. As the man spoke she remember his voice as that of a older noble boy that had squired for her father when she was a girl, however he had attempted to force himself on a several servants and was discharged after his refusal to repent. Despite herself she found that she could not disobey him as he commanded her to sit next to him. Her horror continued to mount as she realized that none of her family drew breath and a blank eyed servant brought a blood filled bowl before her and the man. She sat listening as the man continued to speak insisting that they would spend all of eternity together and that her father would finally bless their marriage when he arrived. Whatever spell the man had over was shattered as the doors to the dining hall flung open as a messenger burst in.
In the brief moment of self control she was able to pin the man's hand to the table with her mothers silver fork. In the second that followed she found herself flung across the room and the messenger stunned by what had just occurred. Before she could process what had occurred the enraged vampire was on her, noticing a monster attacking a maiden the young squire turned messenger did what any knight would. However before he could strike the monster he found his intestines spilling on to the floor, in the moment of distraction the newly made vampiress grabbed a hunting horn above her and plunged it into the beasts heart. As she threw the monster off of her she ran to the squire, finding him on the brink of death she was able to get his messenger shortly before he died, her father had been mortally wounded in the final charge of the battle and her brother had been slain. After she had dispatched the vampire, by removing it's head and setting it's remains on fire she gathered what she could and left her home unsure of where she would go, but knowing to stay would be suicide.
For Nealy two hundred years Marion wandered the old world unsure of what to do. She found the Lahamia and became disgusted with their petty backstabbing and manipulating. She approached the Necharchs and grew bored with their incessant studies. She found her kin the children of Abborish, but still she grew board as they practiced the ways of war but never sought to use them. It was traveling north seeking a challenge that she stumbled upon the ork infested Karak Ungor.
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