Dunlop

The brothers were each born of a different mother in a house of murder and casual cruelty, and they soon proved themselves to be true Dunlops. Richard murdered his first servant at age five, and William developed a talent for knives. Arthur seemed more interested in art and music than mayhem and thus prompted his father to drown his mother on suspicions of infidelity. He need not have worried; when Arthur was 12, he led his family into a secret cave where they found seven missing servants and peasants carved into an elaborate work of rotting flesh-sculpture. The lads helped their father maintain the family territory by procuring victims and suppressing dissent as they grew to manhood. When Count Dunlop Embraced his children to repel the family’s enemies, the three brothers fought at his side. The count maintained control of the house for the next 50 years through force, but each son tested his power eventually. The count attacked them, staked them and entombed each in turn behind a stone wall. The three sons remained trapped for two centuries while their father grew in power. When Dunlop awoke them at last, he was able to Dominate them fully. The sons have discovered that they share their father’s malady, but have not aged as quickly because of their time in torpor. Count Dunlop has forced his childer into torpor several times over the centuries. The longest period they have been awake has been 80 years, during the 15th century, which make the sons partial contemporaries of the characters. The three have currently been awake for only two decades and are having difficulties adjusting to the modern world.

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