Archived-House Grimm
House Profile
Clan: Mekhet
Founder: Marius The Fruitful
Current Heads:
- Archived-Drake Grimm "The Broker"
- Archived-Sakura Grimm The Knife in the Dark
Words: The Darkness Sees All...
Sigil: Black mirror image trees on a grey sky, forming the Yin and Yang symbol.
Themes: Knowledge, Redemption, Family
Primary Covenants: Invictus, Ordo Dracul, Carthian
About the Grimm Family
About House Grimm
House Grimm is a noble Mekhet lineage comprised predominantly of Invictus, Lancea Sanctum and Ordo Dracul. This proud family believes that their bloodline originated when their progenitor, Marius Grimm, was embraced by The Reaper of Death himself.
Marius did as he was commanded by the Reaper and created a powerful but small family out of Florentine nobles. The family emerged from obscurity in Europe around 1280 AD and quickly came to power as the main players in the White Guelph political power in Florence. The White Guelphs were a political alliance that were opposed to papal power meddling in politics and was involved in complex opposition to the Ghibellines, who were backed by the Holy Roman Emperor.
Marius grew in power and wealth in the Florentine court, known as a wise but strange man that kept late hours and slept the day away, but small things such as this could be forgiven of the rich and powerful. Marius wanted to stretch the Grimm bloodline as far as possible, but to do that needed wealth. His gambling ways still hung with him so as much as he would gain he would eventually lose.
So to try and increase his wealth, he told his retainers to go and ravage the Conte Guido Novello, home of his rival Arezzo, and to sack the fortified palace called Bibbiena Civitella. When the Arentine forces heard of the sacking, they quickly assembled an army and marched out to counter the threat.
The ensuing battle became known as the Battle of Campaldino and despite heavy losses (most notably all of Marius's childer) it secured Guelph dominance in Florence, though internecine fighting among the White and Black Florentine Guelphs resulted in wide spread civic disturbances and the exile of many, including notable medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri and sadly, Marius.
Marius, though still wealthy was in exile and decided to travel the world, assembling a new family from talented kine in different nations. The result of which is the modern incarnation of the Grimm family. Marius after many centuries in service to the reaper decided to fall into torpor to avoid having to feed off his family for sustenance. Though the modern family is based originally in Europe, they have recently come to Australia because of the political climate to expand their reach.
Origins of House Grimm
The story goes that the year 1100 AD, Marius was on the road between Italy and Florence, returning home to his Florentine family to recoup his losses and return to the fold after losing his personal fortune in his ongoing relationship with Gambling.
As night approached, he made camp beside the forest in sight of the road. He settled himself on a large log and began to build a fire to protect himself from the chilling cold that was seeping into his bones. As he was trying to get the fire started, a poisonous Asp, slinked out of the log, its rest disturbed by Marius, and bit him. In those days, the road was dangerous and lonely, another caravan might not come down this road for days, maybe even weeks, so Marius knew that this spelt death for him. He crawled to a large Hollow tree and propped himself up on it so that at the very least, he wouldn't need to meet death on his back.
No sooner had this thought crossed his mind than a clicking, wheezing chuckle sounded behind his back, within the hollowed out tree. "Oh so you wish to meet death with your honour intact do you?" The wheezing voice intoned close to his ear. "Well my Marius, you have met death now. Where is your your brave face, hmmmmm?"
Marius felt a cold almost skeletal hand grip him on the shoulder to bring Marius's ear closer to the voice. "You have impressed me little one, tell me...do you long for death? What would you give to escape your death and remain here?"
Marius's strength was now being sapped from his limbs by the potent poison of the asp, he weakly whispered to the creature behind him, "I would give much to escape death, but not all."
The creature behind him wheezed "I am the reaper, and I will bargain you for your life, If you serve me for as long as you walk this earth, I will save you. You will be turned into an eternal creature in service to me.
With Marius's last breath, as the poison was pushing him off the mortal coil, he whispered "Yes"
With that, the reaper dragged him deep inside the tree hollow, sank his fangs into Marius's neck and drank deep of his poisoned blood. Then lifting its arm to Marius's mouth he let a drop of black oozing blood into Marius' mouth.
Marius, now embraced as a vampire, awoke and turned to look at his saviour, to find himself looking at a cowled skeletal figure holding a hand scythe. The Reaper wheezed "You are now a vampire, a member of the bloodline of death and sleep. I ask of you now to undertake the first of many services to me, create a powerful bloodline, one that acts in balance with each other, neither evil nor just, neither greedy nor foolish."
Marius stayed in the tree hollow for three nights, learning the ways of Kindred society and what the reaper called "The Secrets of Death and Entropy". When he emerged from the tree hollow, he walked towards the nearest town, ready to serve the reaper and create a powerful bloodline.
Genealogy of the Grimm Family
The members of House Grimm
The Reaper of Death - Unknown Kindred
- Marius The Fruitful - In Torpor
- Archived-Drake Grimm - 'The Broker'
- Archived-Ambrose Grimm - 'The Silent Death'
- Archived-Azazel Grimm - 'The Whispered Truth'
- Archived-Marcus Grimm - 'The Broken'
- Archived-Horatio Gordon - 'The Aimed Strike'
- Archived-Anita Crowley - 'The Wanderer'
- Archived-Sakura Grimm - 'The Knife in the Dark'
- Archived-Margaret Grimm - 'The Shiver on your Neck'
- Archived-Mark Anderson - The Trusted Shield
- Archived-Drake Grimm - 'The Broker'
Wards of House Grimm
The Grimm Family throughout History
'Timeline of Major Events' Timeline of House Grimm & (Possibly significant) Historical Events
1100 - 1200's
- 1112 – Marius is born into the proud Grimm House, a rich mortal family that made it's fortune in Trading and Shipping.
- 1143 - Marius makes a series of bad decisions and bets with his gambling and looses his personal fortune, deciding to return to his family in shame, hoping to live off their generosity until he is back on his feet.
- 1143 - Marius is bitten by a snake on the journey back to his family and is embraced by "The Reaper of Death"
- 1143 - Marius is commanded to create a bloodline by the reaper
- 1254 - Marius shows up in Florence with a large amount of personal wealth.
- 1259 - Marius starts to embrace Childer from the nobles of Florence.
- 1275 - Marius is accepted into the White Guelph political power in Florence and begins to make it his own
- 1280 - Marius controls most of the White Guelph through political power, money and catspaws
- 1289 - Marius tells his retainers to go and ravage the Conte Guido Novello, and the fortified palace of Bibbiena Civitella to steal it's wealth.
- 1289 - The Arentine forces hear of the sacking and quickly assemble an army and march out to counter the threat.
- 1289 - The Battle of Campaldino in which Marius's Childer are all killed.
1300 - 1500's
- 1301 - Marius along with a number of member of the White Guelph political party are exiled from Florence.
- 1302 - Marius decides to embrace from different countries and expand the bloodline beyond Florence.
- 1359 - Marius liquidates all his wealth and begins his travels around the world setting up the family.
1600 - 1900's
- 1604 - Marius meets Drake and embraces him
- 1815 - Netherlands Marius finds a dying girl Sakura on the street with one eye in tact he see's she is far from home, Japan he embraces/ saves her and teaches her the way of the western world they become lovers for a time.
1900 - Current
- 2014 - Drake and Sakura decide to move the family to Australia after reports from some of their childer living there about the state of the court and the country.
- 2014 - Using their vampiric contacts they find out that the territory for the Mekhet is Milton and get their retainers to organise a suitable haven.
- 2014: - Using the families expansive resources they buy a 10 story ex government building in Milton, changing the ground level into an upper class dance club and restaurant called "The Trees Hollow" and extensively renovating it to be sophisticated and modern.
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