Archived-House Volmark
None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
House Profile
Clan: Nosferatu
Founder: Godomar the Frank
Current Head: Archived-Godric Volmark
Words: Terror Will Rise
Sigil: Black Leviathan on Red Field
Themes: Redemption, Fear, Conquest
Primary Covenants: Lancea Sanctum, Invictus
Soul of the Leviathan
About the House Volmak
House Volmark is a noble Nosferatu lineage comprised predominantly of Invictus and Lancea Sanctum. This proud household came to power during the Caroloingain Renaissance in the late 8th Century Europe. It began in the Nobility of the Frankish courts (in modern day Germany), but has since spread across the European continent and into the Middle East, the Americas, Asia and Australasia.
House Volmark embraces those who were born into greatness but were stricken by tragedy. More often these mortals are undone by their own pride. The Household believes that when a powerful man loses everything he faces his greatest fears. It is though this terror and the fear of God that the descendants of house Volmark are taught to achieve greatness once more in death.
This household has a strong neo-catholic religious bent and nearly all its members are devout to God and the teachings of the Lancea Sanctum. Those of a more political or economic bent tend to value exploration and the conquest of land spreading fear as they go.
The Lords of house Volmark have learnt the value of vassalage and household allegiances. For this reason, over the years they have taken on a number Vampiric wards from other prestigious houses. If a Kindred’s devotion and ambition is strong enough these Non-Nosferatu wards can sometimes find their way into the ranks of House Volmark.
Body of the Leviathan
The members of House Volmark
- Godomar the Frank
- Lost to the Fog of Torpor
Wards of House Volmark
Wrath of the Leviathan
Relations with Other Lineages groups ect.
The Leviathan and the Wolf - House Volmark and House Valdyr
Since as long as any one can remember house Volmark and house Valdyr have been adversaries if not at open war with one another. Kindred Histories have speculate a number of causes for this conflict. Some suggest that it can be traced right back to heroic origins of the Houses and an enmity between Godomar the Frank and Hróðvitnir of mythic proportions. Other suggestions have drawn parallels between the Leviathan of house Volmark's and Jörmungandr with House Valdyr representing either the wolf Fenrir or Thor, who fought in many battles against the world serpent. Similar comparisons have made reference to Chritian theology with the Leviathan representing the monstrous, overt evil and the wolf in sheep's clothing representing the evil that denies it's damnation.
Other sources protest these theories disputing that the reality of the conflict stemmed from a much more mundane collision of two competing powerful groups. This school of through references the various clashes between Germanic Christians and Pagan Norsmen. Clashes between the Carolingian Empire and the Viking tribes could have been the first point of conflict between the two groups and relates well to the sources that suggest Godomar was a vassal of Charles the Great.
Despite the true origin of the conflict it is well known that the two houses have fought against each other in numerous battles, some of which extended through mortal conflicts such as the counter reformation, the seven years war, the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War, the Opium Wars, the Franco-Prussian War and World War One.
During the 20thC the Treaty of Fang a Fear was signed by the active elders of both Houses. The treaty promoted a peace pact between the two groups and has since not been breached. Conflicts have come to a cease fire between the two Houses, some accredit this to a new modernised western world, others suggest it was the will of powerful elders pulling the string.
The following is a recent version of the Pax -
Unto the blood of House Volmark and House Valdyr and to those that would treat with them is the following declaration made.
There now exists a Pax of Fear and Fang. As with the Traditions and all statements of import, let there be clarity and simplicity that none may misinterpret these words. Henceforth; Kindred of House Volmark and House Valdyr shall not commit Violence against one another. Violence against the signatories shall be punished by the head of the transgressors family.
This Pax is bound in Prestation so that none can force them to do otherwise.
Where disputes over these terms arises including but not limited to what constitutes as violence, who is considered a member of the Houses and the details of Prestation they are to be resolved by the Head of the House Volmark their named successor, the Head of the House Valdyr or their named successor and the Judex of this Pax;(titles) Aurialanus or his named successor.
Signed
Alder Godric Volmark Earl of Aachen, Meister of the Leviathan (Guild of the Octopus), Lord Paramount of House Volmark, Summus Hospitalarius of the Order of the Black Cross
- - His Successor Alder Batavia Volmark Senator, Lady Volmark, Alpha Childe of Godric Volmark, "Countess" (Earl) of the Undercity, Summus Marescalcus of the Order of the Black Cross
War-chief Berengaria Valdyr
- - Her Successor xxxx
Marquis Primus Battuo Aurialanus, The Pendragon, Master Sydney's Elysia, Judex and Covenant Head of the assembled Invictus of Australia.
- - His Successor xxxx
An alternate wording exists:
Unto the blood of House Volmark and House Valdyr and to those that would treat with them is the following declaration made.
There now exists a Pax of Fear and Fang.
As with the Traditions and all statements of import, let there be clarity and simplicity that none may misinterpret these words.
Henceforth; Kindred House Volmark and House Valdyr shall not commit Violence against one another or the Judex of this Pax.
Violence against the signatories lines shall be punished by the head of the transgressors family.
This Pax is bound in Prestation so that none can force them to do otherwise.
Where dispute over these terms arises including but not limited to; what constitutes Violence, who is considered a member of the Houses and the details of Prestation are to be resolved by the Head of the House Volmark or their named successor, the Head of the House Valdyr or their named successor and the Judex of this Pax or his named successor.
Differences in the versions may be attributable to the original being prepared in multiple languages and then being translated at different times.
Journey of the Leviathan
'Timeline of Major Events' Timeline of House Volmark & (Possibly significant) Historical Events
700's
- 749 – Pepin the Short is crowned King of the Franks
- 750 -880 (Aprox) - Carolingian Renaissance
- Godomar the Frank Embraced
- 770’s Charles the Great anoints his legendary Paladins, Godomar is among them
- House Volmark is Formed
800's
- 800 – Charlemagne is Crowned Holly Roman Emperor
- 802 - Godomar is sent on a legendary conquest against the Vikings
- 804 – Saxons Finally Conquered by Charlemagne
- 843 – Carolingian Empire is divided into West Francia (France) and East Fancia (Germany).
- 870 - Treaty of Mersen divides the Carolingian Empire further Lothar II receives the Rhielands
900's
- 936 - Otto I the Great was crowned as king at Aachen
- 955 - Otto I defeats Hungarians at Battle of Lechfeld
- 962 - Otto I crowned Imperator Romanorum; Holy Roman Empire formed
- 996 - Bruno of Carinthia (972 – 999) becomes Pope Gregory V; he is the grandson of the Emperor Otto I and the first German pope
1000's
- Rumours of Godomar Fighting amongst the Paladins of Arthurian Legend along with others characters from Charlemagne’s 12 Peers
- 1046-57 - A series of reform-minded popes come from Germany: Pope Clement II in 1046; Pope Dumasus II in 1048; Pope Leo IX in 1049; Pope Victor IIin 1055; and Pope Stephen IX in 1057
- 1090 – Islamic Forces attack the Byzantine Empire
- 1095 – Pope Urban II calls a crusade against the Islamic Empire at the Council of Clermont
1100's
- 1147 – Saint Bernard of Clairvaux calls for the Second Crusade
- 1147 – 1149 – Conrad III King of Germany, Holly Roman Emperor fights a number of unsuccessful conquests during the Second Crusade
- 1187 - Pope Gregory VIII Calls for the Third Crusade
- 1190 – Teutonic Knights are founded
- 1190 - Frederick I Barbarossa King of the Germans and Holly Roman Emperor dies en route to the Holly Land. Few Germans reach the Holly land.
- 1198 – 1290 - Livonian Crusade
1200's
- 1204 – Sacking of Constantinople, major cause for the great schism between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church
- 1212 – The Children’s Crusade – A band of several thousand young boys lead by a German boy named Nicolas from Rhineland set out across the Alps. Few returned and Nicolas’ father was hanged for encouraging him.
- 1215 – Signing of the Magna Carta
- 1228 – 1229 – Frederick II King of the Germans and Holly Roman Emperor set out to Egypt and negotiated Christian Control of Jerusalem despite being excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church. He was Crowned King of Jerusalem on his deathbed.
1300's
1400's
- 1410 – Teutonic Knights fell into decline
- 1420s – Teutonic Knights from Rhineland begun fighting Teutonic Knights from Austria and Bavaria
1500's
- 1517 – Martin Luther Publishes his 95 thesis (Beginning of the Protestant Reformation)
- 1521 - Diet of Worms addresses Luther and the effects on the Protestant Reformation
- 1522 - Pope Adrian VI consecrated
- 1545-1563 – Council of Trent convoked by Pope Paul III (Beginning of the Counter Reformation)
- 1560 – Godric Volmark Embraced in the Rhinelands Germany
- 1571 – Battle of Lepanto
1600's
- 1607 – Jamestown, Virginia, First American Colony
- 1609 – Formation of the Catholic League
- 1610 – Godric Volmark Becomes Head of House Volmark
- 1618-1648– Thirty Years War (End of the Counter Reformation)
- 1629 - Edict of Restitution
- 1635 – Batavia is Embraced
- 1642 - Battle of Breitenfeild
1700's
- 1710 - Algol is Embraced
- 1719 - Leibnitz founds the Berlin Academy of Sciences
- 1788 – First Fleet Arrives in Australia
- 1788 - La Perouse enters Botany Bay and his chaplain, Abbe Mones, celebrates the first Mass within Australian territory
- 1789 - 1799 French revolution; welcomed at first as a liberation in Germany, but then rejected in the name of emergent nationalism.
- 1792 - 1802 French Revolutionary Wars
- 1792 - Catholic settlers in Parramatta petition Governor Phillip for a chaplin
- 1796 - France gains control of left (west) bank of Rhine River from Prussia
- 1797-1828 - Frederick William III king of Prussia; weak and vacillating, he tried to be neutral in the Napoleonic Wars
1800's
- 1800 - Fr James Dixon and two other priests arrested as part of the 1798 Irish Rebellion are transported to New South Wales as convicts 1803 - First official public Mass is held under strict Government supervision and is celebrated by prisoner priest, Fr Dixon 1804 - Castle Hill Rebellion results in Fr Dixon's permit to conduct Mass being withdrawn
- 1804 - 1815 - Napoleonic Wars
- 1806 - Napoleon shuts down the Holy Roman Empire - Confederation of the Rhine formed
- 1809 - Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the dissolution of the Teutonic Knights.
- 1813 - Battle of the Nations at Leipzig: Napoleon decisively defeated
- 1819 - Fr John Therry and Fr Philip Conolly, Australia's first official priests, arrive in Sydney. Fr Therry opens the first Catholic school in Parramatta and lobbies Governor Macquarie for land on which to build the settlement's first Catholic church
- 1833-1836 - William Bernard Ullathorne is instrumental in influencing Pope Gregory XVI to establish the hierarchy in Australia. Ullathorne was in Australia as vicar-general to Bishop William Morris whose jurisdiction extended over the Australian missions.
- 1871 - German Empire (Second Reich) merges all German states except Austria - King Wilhelm I of Prussia becomes German Emperor ("Kaiser"); his policies are largely controlled by Bismarck
- 1871-80 - Bismarck launches Kulturkampf to weaken the Catholic Church and bring it under his control; half the bishops are imprisoned or driven to exile. But 37% of the people are Catholic and they form their Centre Party. Bismarck finally reverses when secularists and Socialists take the opportunity to attack all religion. The Catholics then support Bismarck's policies.
- 1866 – Saint Mary MacKillop founds the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart, She is later canonised as the only Australian Saint.
1900's
- 1906 – Mater Hospital founded as a private house in Brisbane Australia
- 1911 – Funding transforms Mater House into a full scale hospital. Godric Volmark is one of the primary benefactors.
- 1912 - Charles Volmark (Nick Wittman) embraced.
- 1914 Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- 1914 - 1918 World War I
2000's
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