Tell us about your IC Family! I have heard some are insanely huge, others are quite famous for certain things, and others well... Just shouldn't be joined supposedly... Or have you started your own Family? Regret being adopted?

Boz's family is not close at all, he has relatives all over from Mhaldor to Shallam. Big family too, so he doesn't keep track. His mother is Shallamese now, after splitting with his father, who is still Ashtani. Trendor is a pretty cool brother, and Triptika is good too. Good people, but they're never around..

Eurulis' family is the Lighthawks. This family is all over the place, though it's roots come from a Nature-Good family who holds knighthood in high regard. Matriarchally run, women have all the power in this family, though I keep things running as a sort of steward. It's generally quiet now, and I've recently reasserted the old rules on the Matriarch's permission (No Chaos supporters may hold the Lighthawk title in their name, same with Evil people, those who do are generally considered a disgrace, so on and so on). Not many issues for the family at this point.

Van Helsings -

Started with Glyc. Pretty sure he was Ashtani and Occultist at first, not entirely sure as he's a leafy plant now. I'm going to assume Ashtan is the focal point of the Van Helsings that eventually spread to Mhaldor via Taraus. I dunno where her side of the Van Helsings called home, but eventually Taku went to Hashan where Draqoom was born. From there Draqoom spread his seed and created the Hashani Van Helsings. Most of them defected to Ashtan/Mhaldor or went after similar classes (Mostly Necromantic). Just recently Draqoom moved to Shallam to start a Shallamese Van Helsing tribe starting with Aduyan and spreading into Fauscht now.

The Van Helsings I know and love beat the hell outta each other, fight amongst themselves constantly, but always put Van Helsing before all else when in times of need.

The Rosseaus can suck it. In fact, anything Tekla can suck it far as Draqoom is concerned. Very few Rosseaus are included in Draqooms 'preferred' list, the rest he just dismisses as no blood relation.

The Etienne family was created by Leinad and Elora, and for quite a while, the family remained purely Cyrenian. There were even a few disputes about adopting kids not of Cyrene. Then bro quit Cyrene because...well, he was never really that attached to Cyrene. Then I went Babelonian, lots of family issues regarding that. We sort of have an understanding though. We avoid each other on the battlefield as much as possible. We've been fairly successful at it too. Etienne are still mostly Cyrenian.

Taelie is a Ya'dira, the family name of Delh. Not sure where she got it, but Taelie's father is Daleo, and she tries to speak to him whenever he's around. She's Cyrenian, with two totally Ashtani parents, but there was an understanding made when she was adopted to avoid Taelie and her husband in Cyrene should he ever be called to battle. (It's never come up, thank goodness.)
The family member she's probably closest with however is her Great-Granddaddy, Nubbins. He recently decided to start easing his way into the big nap though.
Now, she hangs out mostly with the family she's beginning with her husband Pyke Starwell, one of the hundreds of children of Candace Darkstar. Hearty family history there. They have one son, Pyrak, who is in the CIJ with them. She was fourteen when he was born, but they don't talk about that often, ohthescandal.

Amunet is part of Beldaran's ridiculous lineage, which has gone through so many surnames I've quit trying to figure it all out. She has completely separated herself from her family and is generally loathed by all of them, especially her grandmother, Chammilla, and aunt, Nawtika. The feeling is mutual.

Additionally, Amunet can't stand most of her children. Currently, she only acknowledges the existence of two: Sollis and Mahala. Children who leave the Occultists are generally disowned. In that vein, she regrets not having drowned Bluef at birth. One of her long-term goals is to rectify that problem by any means necessary.

Amu considers the Occultists and the Order of Oblivion to be her family. Blood ties mean absolutely nothing to her in light of her dedication to Chaos.

Oh dear, Beldaran and her five million children, which I happen to be a part of as well...

I am a member of several families -- although none of these families are blood-based. The Aristatas and Lichlords (original and Karloptimux knock-off) have interesting histories. The surname I took was from a primarily Mhaldorian-primarily warrior family founded by Caine. It is nearly dormant now.

Berenene is a fa Toren. At the moment, there is only one fa Toren.

Quoren doesn't have an adventurer family. He's the son of two Arcadian University professors. (Philosophy and Lowlander Studies, fyi.) It's sort of been fun, playing out the effect growing up in such a rarefied academic environment had on him. Plus I managed to avoid the family horror stories, so it's all good.

Pretty much everyone hates the Cortens. Even though Orophin is only a member via a blood oath, I guess he fits in pretty well with the stereotype. All of his blood family (which isn't really that large) is all inactive so... not much to be known for.

The D'Ischai are Hashani but had ties with Ashtan in the beginning. They began with Rejlii, whose daughter is Merik. She and Ryukishi are Korben's grandparents.

However, by extension, you are an Ironson, even if it's not by birth. I can probably, in a couple days, think up some Ironson Horror Stories.

Laiila was originally an Eruu'Yul - Fez is her dad. She's been through a whole host of surnames due to various different goings on - marriage, being cast out of the Eruu'Yuls, divorce, mother's surname, grandfather's surname, husband's surname, nothing, husband's new surname, nothing and now Aesculus.

The Aesculus family is a small bunch, but I'm great friends with everyone in it. Most of Laiila's children are dormant, but she has two grandchildren who she loves with all her heart and spends all her money on. Andraco and Ailne.

Snareman started the Kindfire name when he was 19 never knowing it would grow to what it is. Several of his children (mostly male) have disowned him because of his inactivity and probably because he has gained a few kids through the years. While he has stopped trying to reproduce, his children now bloodline several kids of their own. The Kindfires started in Cyrene gaining a few from Mhaldor and then Eleusis and Shallam. After a while there was able to be found somebody from Snareman's bloodline in every city. Kindfires are kind of want to be great by nature. Some of them buy lots of arties and do combat, others go politics. While most of Snareman's children tend to go dormant, the ones that aren't, Snareman keeps in great contact with and usually can tell you the city/class/race of each of his kids without honours or anything else aiding him. The family is big, but he keeps tabs on his kids and didn't just get them for the numbers.

Now the other side of Snareman's family is the Tyr'acel. Jaemon and Laila are Snareman's parents and he actually met them through a friend and decided they would be his parents. Laila and Jaemon were both enemies of Cyrene when he was a citizen and become their child which caused a bit of trouble for relationships for Snareman as somebody decided to not marry him because the two sets of parents didn't agree with each other. Snareman does talk frequently to his siblings that he sees, mostly Ravenkiller, Fort, and others.

Moonflair is part of Snareman's bloodline through Jack and Rinoa(?) But he has only worn that name on rare occations and isn't much informed on that side of his family.



I'm touched, I was almost sure you were going to say that the Kindfires are your sworn enemy.

The Eruu'Yul line went down the toilet after Ork left and Sandriel started breeding idiot forestals. What began as a reputable Occultist lineage ended up an Eleusian joke.

ok let's see. 7-8 years ago Mayapple and Vasool started the Xanatovs. It began with just us two as siblings, and then soon children, mostly hers. Since 2002 it has grown to about 300 people I think, more than half dormant now, and the family is now 7 generations from my character or Mayapple's to the newest generation. Great great great great grandchildren? Who the hell knows...

Xanatovs have had members in just about most orders, every city, most every guild and house at one point or another. Been OH's of several different orders prominently Kitt and Mayapple, and leaders of several guilds/houses, I think even one or two later went dormant and became a divine, but I won't speculate as to who, if you know then you know. From an OOC perspective no real reason for starting the family name other than to add some depth to my character, from an IC perspective Vasool is vastly proud of his family even though some are ideological enemies.

It's always enjoyable to be speaking to Khaz over family chat, playing the part of the relative, then being pounded by him while raiding his city later. The seperate RP distinctions with the people add to the enjoyment for me.

The main reason I enjoy my family is it allows me to interact with people I would otherwise never have had a reason to speak to. Sometimes for good sometimes for a *facepalm* moment, but no matter what it pays off RP wise!

When Requa was younger, a fair few families showed interest in her but she eventually decided that she belonged to the Vorondil family, a moderate sized one that was comprised of quite a few Shallamese. Her dad used to brag that all his children were Sentaari, until they had a Cyrenian child who later went Serpent in Ashtan.

Requa liked being the youngest until she discovered the existence of some younger brothers, which she tolerated because she was still the youngest daughter. But then, another was born, and Requa found it very hard to accept. When that daughter married a thief and eloped to Ashtan, she couldn't help but feel that her opinion was justified. That daughter later went dormant.

Requa was very attached to her family in her younger years, being very close to her siblings and getting very upset whenever drama happened, always trying to be the mediator. However, as she grew older, most of her siblings went dormant, and Requa moved out of the Sentaari House, along with a few other sisters. The Cyrenian lineage grew from there. Her elder sister moved to Ashtan and married the Overseer for a brief time, resulting in a few Ashtani Vorondils. The family as a whole isn't very close, due to dormancy and for Requa personally, the divorce of her parents. Requa remains closest to her dad, Greys.

The Jinx side of Requa's family is a pretty big one, and Requa doesn't know anything about them apart from the fact that her grandmother on that side is the Imperiate. She also discovered, much to her chagrin, that Sabiru was in fact her great-uncle.

Oh this should be interesting...

Le'Dominae- Stemming from my great grandfather, Cooper, down to my son- Xaiden. The Le'Dominae family is full of character, as my Grandmother hates men, My fathers gay, and I was born out of experimental curiousity. The family originally stemmed from Shallam, but most are now dormant. The active members are primarially Ashtani or Cyrenian, with a few rogue. Were quite the brood.

I don't even -ing know for Daeki. He's related to pretty much everyone! All I know is that I just use a different surname and that's it. 99% of the time I wish I never accepted being adopted.

The Tav'Elaon name starts with my father Graven, and my Mother Lydia. We started as a cheerful family. A devoted forestal Druid mother, My Father and I involved with the Ashura and devoted. However genetics has proven my family to be pretty unstable for its relatively small size. Father snapped on Ashtan and went mostly nutter killing anyone in his path. Mother attempted to hold it together and followed my father due to love througout his tribulations and changes. I decided to be chaotic and of course that got me real far....

Well I will break it down, Fauscht likes to meddle where things shouldn't be meddled.

I lived as a rogue occultist after my episodes of whatever the hell....ousted from Ashtan tried to live in Hashan and preferred to chew on metal shavings than deal with its citizens and left there just as quick as I arrived..

*insert the light saving me RP here*

Moved to Shallam and actually am having the best time I think I have ever had. Shallam has a certain redeeming quality to people that I actually respect. Who knows I havent been there that long. Since moving to Shallam and through my own parents preferring me dead the Van Helsing clan has taken me in as a child of their own. Its nice to have an adopted family.

In my years of whiskey induced depression and bouts of curiousity against my own homosexuality I spawned multiple children all with different mothers, ranging from..... actually all my kids regardless of alignment citywise are all kind of the same in personalities with thier own little quirks and they are fantastic and loyal to their father. I was pretty damn lucky. All the childrens mothers are my dearest achaean female friends.

I would say I am pretty damn lucky with the family I have. Now I have grandkids though because my dear son Roh likes the ladies almost as much as a handsome warrior distracts his father from functioning.

The majority of my Family is Ashtani, Shallamese, or Rogue.

What a messed up family. And how didn't I know you had a son...yeesh

The Stormcrow family was the second one that Landon was invited to join. The first was the Le-Yeut family, featuring Vorleth most prominently. The second invitation came from Covenant directly, with an offer to be bloodlined by a mostly dormant Ishiva (the bloodlining by Landon's father Telion never came to pass - he remained dormant). From there, adoptions of Solar Stormcrow and Angelclaw Stormcrow, followed by the now-suicided Sparrowynn Stormcrow completed the nuclear family.

Notable relatives include:
Kellenia Lena D'argen Stormcrow (wife, former Heirophant)
Tigrayne Lena D'argen (mother-in-law, former Druid guildmistress)
Covenant Stormcrow (grandfather, former Sentinel guildmaster and Speaker of Eleusis)
Deonymous (brother-in-law, former Heirophant)
Merlin D'argen (father-in-law, forestal troublemaker)
Telion Stormcrow (father, first Sentinel Guardian)
Solar Stormcrow (daughter, former Sultaness of Shallam)
Auralys Stormcrow (granddaughter, served as a Vizier in Shallam's government)

Those are the big ones I can remember. I'm sure there are many, many more.

I have no IC family. It's worked out pretty well for me so far.

Rosaceae is part of the Vas'amaen family. I don't really know much about how they started. She's very close to her mother, Cristine, and to her brother, Diath. She loves all of her grandparents and great grandparents. She likes to run and surprise them with hugs alongside Diath. She tends to find really distant relatives to pal around with. Most of the family is from Eleusis, with the exception of a few of us from Hashan and I believe one or two from Shallam, maybe one Mhaldorian. This is only the close family though.
The strongest ties have to be with her mother and brother.. She goes through hard times dealing with being an Infernal and having a family who are mostly Eleusian and dislike Evil.

This is so very unsurprising, as is Diath being your IG brother.

Well, to be honest, it's not like Rosaceae is Evil. She isn't even Diet Evil. If I were the Dread Ecclesiarch, I'd anathematize her ass so quickly it would set a record. Evil doesn't beg for cookies, nor does it -ing cuddle.

I am now going to jump on the "I Love Amunet" bandwagon.

As if I weren't already on it.

Hehe.. I like that.

I Can't Believe It's Not Evil.

I would've except that Lutrius married one. So I'll have to settle with Snareman being probably my rival? Dunno why but we always get tangled up in the same goals...

I like that too.

The eight kids were extremely close early on. Racing through Cyrene playing tag, wrestling when Leinad wasn't around to remind us of decorum. Leinad was and is an extremely good father. Don't think I could have found a better one.

Some fairly large family dramas started to divide us, then quite a few (read - mostly those with alts) went dormant. It is mostly Rynn, Zaric and I now. And my children. Rynn and Zaric haven't bred much.

Lis misses her sister Sevin every day and sister Casana. Tinga took a turn for the unfathomable and never looked back.

She's extremely excited that Zaric may be Cyrenian again and shakes her head sadly when Rynn is mentioned. Poor misguided soul.

Vasool basically said it all for me. I love being a Xanatov, they're lots of fun.

The Drakes are just crazy as hell. Gawi's constantly spawning and we're all constantly joking around about it.

Trilliana's surname right now is Inamora due to being in Lady Selene's Order. Once I get to Scholar in the House, I'll probably use Xanatov, or if I'm married by then I'll be a Dawyn (oh lords the craziness of the Dawyns)

All in all, Trilliana and her bazillion siblings were mostly close. Nayuu was the closest she was closest too and he's now dormant.

No, YOU are a disgrace.

Are you still bitter over that?

In short, yes.

The Le'Murzen family is really really interesting (at least on Caleth's side, Nita's children are mostly dormant)

Katia and Balynne on one end.

A million Cyrenian snugglebunnies on the other.

Otha somewhere in the middle, but part of Nita's lineage and not Caleth's.



Sex-change?

Lol, no. Orina still logs in once in a blue moon. I'm just kinda the guy who's actually doing any kind of leading at all, because I don't think anyone else cares.