Category:Dilisnya Family

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.

The Dilisnya family had spent over two centuries hiding itself from the wrath of 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, Lev, Anna and all there other children included.

Reference

Gazetteer I, p. 15.