Category:Godefroy Family
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The Godefroy family is one of the great in Mordent and the former leaders of Mordentshire.[1] The Godefroys held at one time the most power, social influence, and wealth of the noble families, but their fortunes ended when Lord Wilfred Godefroy sank into depravity and murdered his wife and child a year before committing suicide to escape their ghostly wrath.[2] With his demise and the ending of the Godefroy surname, rule of Mordent and ownership of Mordentshire's land was given to the Weathermay Family, to which the Weathermays still possess to this day.[3]
The family crest of the Godefroy family is a griffon bearing a staff of wheat in one of is claws and a club in the other.[1]
The Family Today[4]
The last person to bear the Godefroy surname was Lord Wilfred. Though he (and his wife and daughter) linger on as ghosts at the House on Gryphon Hill, Wilfred had no living descendants. This is not to say that there can be no characters, player characters or non-player characters, who have Godefroy blood flowing in their veins, for Wilfred's relatives married into other families such as the Foxgrove Family and Weathermay Family.
The Godefroys display close affinities to the spirit world and as such may appear to jump from topic to topic in conversation. They are more often driven by intuitive insight rather than strictly observational rationality, as they tend to be doubters of what their senses see. Though they tend towards physical illness and fragility, the Godefroys demonstrate a certain inexplicable aura of attraction about them, though this tends to become discomforting through extended contact. A Godefroy is a magnet for ghosts and other spirits. A Godefroy is cursed to see the ghost of any person the Godefroy slays come back to haunt them. Likewise, Godefroys are cursed to rise as a ghost following their own deaths.
Chronology
- 137 BC or before: Mordentshire is settled.[5]
- 180 BC Jacques Renier brings his family here and takes leadership of the then hamlet of Mordentshire. He eventually builds Gryphon Manor.[5]
- 510 BC Lord Wilfred Godefroy is born.[6]
- 550 BC Estelle Weathermay is born to Byron Weathermay and Katherine Sutherwaite Weathermay.[6]
- 557 BC By no later than this year has Lord Wilfred Godefroy inherited Gryphon Manor.[7]
- 568 BC Lilia Godefroy is born to Estelle Weathermay and Lord Wilfred Godefroy.[6][7]
- 578 BC Lord Wilfred Godefroy canes Estelle Godefroy to death. When Lilia Godefroy tries to intervene, he murders her too.[7]
- 579 BC New Year's Day Lord Wilfred Godefroy commits suicide.[5] With the death of the last Godefroy to bear the surname, the Godefroy land and rule of the realm goes to the Weathermay Family.[3]
- 579 BC October[8] Strahd and Azalin create a portal to Mordent[9], where The Alchemist conducts strange research on changing the soul.[10] The Mists snatch up Mordent before either Strahd or Azalin can make good their escape, leaving them with only hazy dream-like recollections of what happened.[9] With no greater evil left in Mordent, Godefroy is "promoted" to darklord and witnesses his power greatly increased. He revels in this increased power for but a brief time before his wife and daughter rise from the grave to haunt and torment him.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gazetteer III p. 51
- ↑ Gazetteer III p. 45-46
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gazetteer III p. 56
- ↑ Legacy of the Blood: Great Families of the Core p. 64-65
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gazetteer III p.45
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Realm of Terror p.128
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Gazetteer III p.130
- ↑ Gazetteer III p.47
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Gazetteer II p.135
- ↑ I10: Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill
Subcategories
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- Godefroy Family Feat (3 P)
Pages in category "Godefroy Family"
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