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*[[670 BC]] [[False History]]: [[Klaus Boritsi]] is born<ref name=RoTp.121>[[Realm of Terror]] p.121</ref> in [[Borca]].
*[[670 BC]] [[False History]]: [[Klaus Boritsi]] is born<ref name=RoTp.121>[[Realm of Terror]] p.121</ref> in [[Borca]].
*[[677 BC]] [[Katina Dilisnya]] is born to Tara Yanoff and Fredrik Dilisnya.<ref name=RoTp.123>[[Realm of Terror]] p.123</ref>
*[[677 BC]] [[Katina Dilisnya]] is born to Tara Yanoff and Fredrik Dilisnya.<ref name=RoTp.123>[[Realm of Terror]] p.123</ref>
*[[677 BC]] [[Stepan Taryoyan]], future third husband to Camille Boristi and the only one to escape, is born.<ref name=RoTp.121>[[Realm of Terror]] p.121</ref>
*[[680 BC]] [[Edgar Leskovich]], later husband of [[Kristina Dilisnya]] is born.<ref name=RoTp.123>[[Realm of Terror]] p.123</ref>
*[[680 BC]] [[Edgar Leskovich]], later husband of [[Kristina Dilisnya]] is born.<ref name=RoTp.123>[[Realm of Terror]] p.123</ref>
*[[681 BC]] [[Hasslig Dilisnya]] is born to Tara Yanoff and Fredrik Dilisnya.<ref name=RoTp.123>[[Realm of Terror]] p.123</ref>
*[[681 BC]] [[Hasslig Dilisnya]] is born to Tara Yanoff and Fredrik Dilisnya.<ref name=RoTp.123>[[Realm of Terror]] p.123</ref>
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*[[684 BC]] Boris Dilisnya and others of [[Ivan Dilisnya]]'s [[family]] move from [[Barovia]] to Borca. Being a descendant of Leo Dilisnya, she feels only scorn for them.<ref name=RoTp.94>[[Realm of Terror]] p.94</ref>
*[[684 BC]] Boris Dilisnya and others of [[Ivan Dilisnya]]'s [[family]] move from [[Barovia]] to Borca. Being a descendant of Leo Dilisnya, she feels only scorn for them.<ref name=RoTp.94>[[Realm of Terror]] p.94</ref>
*[[687 BC]] [[Camille Dilisnya]] marries [[Klaus Boritsi]].
*[[687 BC]] [[Camille Dilisnya]] marries [[Klaus Boritsi]].
*[[[688 BC]] [[Abelardo Leoni]], future first husband of [[Ivana Boritsi[[, is born.<ref name=RoTp.121>[[Realm of Terror]] p.121</ref>
*[[689 BC]] [[Ivana Boritsi]] is born to [[Camille Dilisnya]] and [[Klaus Boritsi]].<ref name=RoTp.121>[[Realm of Terror]] p.121</ref><ref name=dodp56>[[Domains of Dread]] p.56</ref>
*[[689 BC]] [[Ivana Boritsi]] is born to [[Camille Dilisnya]] and [[Klaus Boritsi]].<ref name=RoTp.121>[[Realm of Terror]] p.121</ref><ref name=dodp56>[[Domains of Dread]] p.56</ref>
*[[689 BC]] [[Ivan Dilisnya]] is born to Stefania Septow and Boris Dilisnya.<ref name=RoTp.123>[[Realm of Terror]] p.123</ref>
*[[689 BC]] [[Ivan Dilisnya]] is born to Stefania Septow and Boris Dilisnya.<ref name=RoTp.123>[[Realm of Terror]] p.123</ref>
*[[693 BC]] [[Nikoli Chesniak]], future second husband of Ivana Boritsi, is born.<ref name=RoTp.121>[[Realm of Terror]] p.121</ref>
*[[694 BC]] [[Sulo Boritsi]] is born to [[Camille Dilisnya]] and [[Klaus Boritsi]].<ref name=RoTp.121>[[Realm of Terror]] p.121</ref>
*[[694 BC]] [[Sulo Boritsi]] is born to [[Camille Dilisnya]] and [[Klaus Boritsi]].<ref name=RoTp.121>[[Realm of Terror]] p.121</ref>
*[[695 BC]] Ivan Dilisnya begins [[torture|torturing]] [[animal]]s.<ref name=RoTp.94>[[Realm of Terror]] p.94</ref>
*[[695 BC]] Ivan Dilisnya begins [[torture|torturing]] [[animal]]s.<ref name=RoTp.94>[[Realm of Terror]] p.94</ref>
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*[[699 BC]] [[Lucia Ritter]] is born. She will eventually go on to become the wife of Count Sulo Boritsi.<ref name=RoTp.121>[[Realm of Terror]] p.121</ref>
*[[699 BC]] [[Lucia Ritter]] is born. She will eventually go on to become the wife of Count Sulo Boritsi.<ref name=RoTp.121>[[Realm of Terror]] p.121</ref>
*[[700 BC]] Kristina Dilisnya and Edgar Leskovich have a child. That same year, they are both [[killed]]<ref name=RoTp.123>[[Realm of Terror]] p.123</ref> by Ivan Dilisnya due to his [[jealous]]y of Edgar. Kristina is nursing the baby child, but a [[midwife]] sneaks the child away to safety.<ref name=RoTp.94>[[Realm of Terror]] p.94</ref>
*[[700 BC]] Kristina Dilisnya and Edgar Leskovich have a child. That same year, they are both [[killed]]<ref name=RoTp.123>[[Realm of Terror]] p.123</ref> by Ivan Dilisnya due to his [[jealous]]y of Edgar. Kristina is nursing the baby child, but a [[midwife]] sneaks the child away to safety.<ref name=RoTp.94>[[Realm of Terror]] p.94</ref>
*[[702 BC]] [[Alexander Manduchi]], future third husband of Ivana Boritsi, is born.<ref name=RoTp.121>[[Realm of Terror]] p.121</ref>
*[[703 BC]] Stefania Septow dies<ref name=RoTp.123>[[Realm of Terror]] p.123</ref> thanks to the poison of Ivan Dilisnya.<ref name=RoTp.94>[[Realm of Terror]] p.94</ref>
*[[703 BC]] Stefania Septow dies<ref name=RoTp.123>[[Realm of Terror]] p.123</ref> thanks to the poison of Ivan Dilisnya.<ref name=RoTp.94>[[Realm of Terror]] p.94</ref>
*[[706 BC]] [[Camille Dilisnya]] manipulates [[Ivana Boritsi]] into killing her lover [[Pieter]].<ref name=RCSDomDenp.57>[[Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens]] p.57</ref><ref name=dodp56>[[Domains of Dread]] p.56</ref>
*[[706 BC]] [[Camille Dilisnya]] manipulates [[Ivana Boritsi]] into killing her lover [[Pieter]].<ref name=RCSDomDenp.57>[[Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens]] p.57</ref><ref name=dodp56>[[Domains of Dread]] p.56</ref>
*[[708 BC]] Ivana Boritsi's [[unnamed]] illegitimate lover dies.<ref name=RoTp.121>[[Realm of Terror]] p.121</ref>
*[[711 BC]] Ivana Boritsi turns her friend [[Nostalia Romaine]] into the first [[ermordenung]], and used her to [[assassination|assassinate]] her mother<ref name=mciiniiip77>[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium I & II]] p. 77</ref> Ivana subsequently becomes the new [[ruler]] and [[darklord]] of [[Borca]].<ref name=RCSDomDenp.58>[[Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens]] p.58</ref><ref name=dodp56>[[Domains of Dread]] p.56</ref>
*[[711 BC]] Ivana Boritsi turns her friend [[Nostalia Romaine]] into the first [[ermordenung]], and used her to [[assassination|assassinate]] her mother<ref name=mciiniiip77>[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium I & II]] p. 77</ref> Ivana subsequently becomes the new [[ruler]] and [[darklord]] of [[Borca]].<ref name=RCSDomDenp.58>[[Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens]] p.58</ref><ref name=dodp56>[[Domains of Dread]] p.56</ref>
*[[712 BC]] Ivan Dilisnya marries Lucretia Marzeya.<ref name=RoTp.94>[[Realm of Terror]] p.94</ref>
*[[712 BC]] Ivan Dilisnya marries Lucretia Marzeya.<ref name=RoTp.94>[[Realm of Terror]] p.94</ref>
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*[[721 BC]] Boris Dilisnya dies.<ref name=RoTp.123>[[Realm of Terror]] p.123</ref>
*[[721 BC]] Boris Dilisnya dies.<ref name=RoTp.123>[[Realm of Terror]] p.123</ref>
*[[722 BC]] Tara Yanoff dies.<ref name=RoTp.123>[[Realm of Terror]] p.123</ref>
*[[722 BC]] Tara Yanoff dies.<ref name=RoTp.123>[[Realm of Terror]] p.123</ref>
*[[727 BC]] Anton Boritsi and Stepan Taroyan die.<ref name=RoTp.121>[[Realm of Terror]] p.121</ref>
*[[730 BC]] Fredrik Dilisnya dies.<ref name=RoTp.123>[[Realm of Terror]] p.123</ref>
*[[730 BC]] Fredrik Dilisnya dies.<ref name=RoTp.123>[[Realm of Terror]] p.123</ref>
*[[724 BC]] [[Oton Boritsi]] is born to Anton Boritsi and Katarina Piechota in Borca. He is their second child.
*[[724 BC]] [[Oton Boritsi]] is born to Anton Boritsi and Katarina Piechota in Borca. He is their second child.

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The Dilisnya family nearly 800 years ago were a family engaged in banking in one or more city-states. They were one of several successful mercantile families that used their wealth and influence to have themselves raised to the nobility of Prime Material Barovia when the nation was forged of independent city-states by the von Zarovich family in BC 1.[1]

Izabela Dilisnya, the aged matriarch of her line, was assassinated in 314 BC. The crime was blamed upon the Katsky and the Petrovna families. They had been locked in a dispute with the Dilisnyas over the rights to the prosperous (but now played out) silver mines of Mount Gries. There was also a century of accumulated ill-will between the families. The assassination touched off the War of Silver Knives. It was far less a war than a series of tit-for-tat assassinations that Count Barov von Zarovich ordered an end to in 316 BC. Peace was restored, but well before Izabela could be avenged sufficiently avenged so far as her son Pidlwik Dilisnya was concerned. He developed an intense hatred for the von Zaroviches that he passed on to his son, or in fact, stepson Leo Dilisnya. Leo plotted not merely to punish them. He plotted to make himself the ruler of Prime Material Barovia. The von Zaroviches would be wiped out. His ailing brother Reinhold would be installed as Count of Barovia. And after a year or two, Count Reinhold would appear to die of his stomach illness, which was in fact a result of poisoning by his brother. Leo would then succeed Reinhold as Count of Barovia.

The Wedding of Sergei von Zarovich was the moment when Leo struck. The massacre turned out to be somewhat wider than had been intended initially. It would claim his biological father Gunther, his brother Reinhold, his sister Gertrude, her husband Ivan Buchvold, together their three children, and his sister Oleka, together with three of her four children. Count Strahd von Zarovich appeared to be fatally wounded. And the couple to be married, Sergei von Zarovich and his bride Tatyana Federovna, were already dead, Strahd having murdered his brother Sergi and Tanyana having escaped Strahd by throwing herself from the castle wall. Leo was far from unpleased with the result. Unfortunately, Strahd, rather than expiring peaceably, rose up as one of the undead and routed the Leo's forces. The only Dilisnyas to escape Castle Ravenloft were Leo, Reinhold's wife Nadia Yakimov and her children. Contemporary Dilisnyas are the descendants of the one line, the other, both.

Leo and his remaining kin went to ground, rightly fearing the vengeance of the vampire that now ruled the realm. Flight to other lands proved to be impossible, for the Mists had cut off the land from its neighbours. The patriarch of the Dilisnyas hid himself away in a monastery and prepared himself for the night when Strahd would come. In 398 BC, the Count of Barovia at last came for his most wayward subject. The preparations proved to be insufficient, if just barely. Strahd ended Leo's life, but not his existence. He made him a vampire and then seal him away in a tomb on the Wachter Estate to be driven mad by hunger before eventually expiring of it.

The remaining Dilisnyas spent over two centuries hiding themselves from Count Strahd von Zarovich within the narrow confines of Barovia. The annexation of Mordent by the Mists in 579 BC opened an outlet for immigration to the west. That outlet widened with the incorporation of Gundarak in 593 BC and of Invidia in 603 BC. Lev Dilisnya, descended from Leo Dilisnya, was the son of one of the first Dilisnyas to establish himself and his family openly in the domain of Mordent. They were, however, viewed with a great deal of suspicion by the Mordentish. Lev married Elena Almeida and she bore him three children, Yakov Dilisnya and Oleska Dilisnya in 640 BC and Stepan Dilisnya in 650 BC. The family lived in a luxurious manor built by Lev's father in northern Mordent. Elena died in 651 BC. Within a year, Lev had taken Anna Kurdzeil as his second wife. She bore him two children, Richtor Dilisnya in 658 BC and Camille Dilisnya in 662 BC. There would be seven grandchildren, including Clifford Dilisnya and Virginia Dilisnya, both werewolves, and Anton Boritsi, Ivana Boritsi and Sulo Boritsi, not werewolves.

The subsequent fortune of the descendants of Leo Dilisnya would be shaped by Camille Dilisnya. She discovered that Siegfried Grymig, her husband, was having an affair Maria Diazi and poisoned them to death in what would soon prove to be the seminal event that gave birth to Borca. The Mordentish authorities failed to solve the mystery of the murders, although the truth of the matter is now an open secret. As a precaution however, Lev and Anna sent Camille to distant relatives in Invidia. En route, she was seized by the Mists and Borca was formed with her as its darklord. It is probable that Lev and Anna immigrated to Borca in the years following its formation in 684 BC, at once invited by Camille and drawn by the prospect of being raised to nobility. In 698 BC, the Dilisnya family gathered for the funeral of Camille's fourth husband, Oleh Fortich. Camille was persuaded that her family had been conspiring to kill her. She proceeded to poison to death the nigh entirety of her branch of the Dilisnyas, including Lev, Anna and all their other children.

Chronology

662 BC Oleh Fortich, future fourth husband of Camille Dilisnya, is born.[3]

Reference

Gazetteer I, p. 15.

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gazetteer I p.15
  2. 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 Realm of Terror p.123
  3. 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 3.27 3.28 3.29 3.30 3.31 3.32 3.33 3.34 3.35 Realm of Terror p.121
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Realm of Terror p.94
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Domains of Dread p.56
  6. Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens p.57
  7. Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium I & II p. 77
  8. 8.0 8.1 Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens p.58
  9. Realm of Terror p.66; This date in Realms of Terror contradicts the timeline date of Camille's death on p.121 of that same product in the Boritsi family tree. The latter seems to have been taken as canon by later products.
  10. Gazetteer IV, p. 36.
  11. Domains of Dread p.57