Other Factions

Whereas the Pisanob and Ghiberti are driven to develop Necromancy to control their territories, the drive of the Rosselini is derived from nothing less than raw passion itself.

The Rosselini are often looked upon by the other Giovanni families with a certain degree of caution. Many distance themselves from the sadistic lengths that the Rosselini go to in order to command wraiths. Where the debate continues among the main Giovanni family about the level of force Necromancers should employ when dealing with wraiths, it simply falls on deaf ears when directed towards the Rosselini family. Their rationale is that wraiths should fear the Necromancer as much as possible. Having mastered the art of subjugating wraiths through sheer terror, the Rosselini have become among the most proficient of Necromancers, second only to

the Giovanni family itself. For now, tyranny and fear are tools that they employ very effectively to control the dead.

The sickening truth behind their excessive brutality towards the dead is that they like it. Once, when the family was still mortal, it saw itself as being in competition with the Necromancers of Venice (the then-mortal Giovanni) for supremacy over the realms of the dead. Much like a jockey whipping his horse to go faster, the Rosselini pushed the wraiths in their command harder and harder in an effort to get ahead of the Giovanni. Over time, this original intention has been lost and perverted. Now, the practice of Necromancy, while it is horrific to those who hold to Humanity, is nearly an aphrodisiac for the Rosselini. The act of transgression of social laws and convention and the freedom to do as they wish and obtain power from the act, are the most liberating and soul stirring experience they can hope to achieve in their existence. They seek to indulge in it as much as possible. Unsurprisingly, many of their most gifted Necromancers find themselves walking the Path of the Bones, like their Giovanni cousins. Others, who are blinkered in their indulgence of their sadistic arts, often crash and burn in a spectacular fashion. More than one has been torn apart by a horde of Spectres that they have generated through their own sadistic torture.