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==Origins==
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]].<ref name=GazIp15>[[Gazetteer I]] p.15</ref>
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]].<ref name=GazIp15>[[Gazetteer I]] p.15</ref>


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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|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 [[Dilisnya Family|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.
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|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 [[Dilisnya Family|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.


Ironically, in contemporary times, the Dilisnyas can be found all over the [[Land of Mists]] except in the land of their bloodlines birth, [[Barovia]]. For example, in [[Invidia]], Dilisnyas serve both [[Malocchio]]'s [[mercenary]] forces and the [[Gundarkite]] [[rebel]]s. [[Vistani]] even hire them to wreak vengeance upon those in that domain that have wronged them. They are also equally at home in the intrigues of [[Richemulot]] or the [[criminal]] fringe of [[Port-a-Lucine]]. A Dilisnyas made aware of their background collectively have an almost uncanny ability to find each other, but such knowledge may come at the cost of knowing new enemies.<ref name=LotBp.40-41>[[Legacy of the Blood]] p.40-41</ref>  
 
==The Dilisnyas Today==
Ironically, in contemporary times, the Dilisnyas can be found all over the [[Land of Mists]] except in the land of their bloodlines birth, [[Barovia]]. For example, in [[Invidia]], Dilisnyas serve both [[Malocchio]]'s [[mercenary]] forces and the [[Gundarakite]] [[rebel]]s. [[Vistani]] even hire them to wreak vengeance upon those in that domain that have wronged them. They are also equally at home in the intrigues of [[Richemulot]] or the [[criminal]] fringe of [[Port-a-Lucine]]. A Dilisnyas made aware of their background collectively have an almost uncanny ability to find each other, but such knowledge may come at the cost of knowing new enemies.<ref name=LotBp.40-41>[[Legacy of the Blood]] p.40-41</ref>  


==Chronology==
==Chronology==

Revision as of 19:26, 9 January 2016

Origins

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.[1] 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.


The Dilisnyas Today

Ironically, in contemporary times, the Dilisnyas can be found all over the Land of Mists except in the land of their bloodlines birth, Barovia. For example, in Invidia, Dilisnyas serve both Malocchio's mercenary forces and the Gundarakite rebels. Vistani even hire them to wreak vengeance upon those in that domain that have wronged them. They are also equally at home in the intrigues of Richemulot or the criminal fringe of Port-a-Lucine. A Dilisnyas made aware of their background collectively have an almost uncanny ability to find each other, but such knowledge may come at the cost of knowing new enemies.[2]

Chronology

Reference

Gazetteer I, p. 15.

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Gazetteer I p.15
  2. ↑ Legacy of the Blood p.40-41
  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 Realm of Terror p.123
  4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 4.18 4.19 4.20 4.21 4.22 4.23 4.24 4.25 4.26 4.27 4.28 4.29 4.30 4.31 4.32 4.33 4.34 4.35 Realm of Terror p.121
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Realm of Terror p.94
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Domains of Dread p.56
  7. ↑ Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens p.57
  8. ↑ Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium I & II p. 77
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens p.58
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ Gazetteer IV, p. 36.
  12. ↑ Domains of Dread p.57

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