The Noble Wars

The Noble Wars were a series of battles between the noble families of Drachenveil after King Octavion died. Octavion never had a successor and most of his family was dead. Many noble families died out in the heavy fighting. The two strongest families, the Yurscut family and the Tarowski family along with two smaller families came out of the Nobility Wars and declared a truce dividing up the city between the four families. Eventually the two lower houses were married together to protect them from the other two houses. Tensions remained strong for the twenty years of piece until Tarowski's attempted takeover of Drachenveil for himself. The Lazarus Coven of vampires fought alongside the Tarowski family in to take down the Yurscut house, but were betrayed and very nearly destroyed by a force lead by Orion Tawrowski. It is important to note that the families in the war bore little similarity the families in the civil war 2 decades later. The Yurscut family was very power hungry and much more greedy and the Tarowski family, while not the most friendly was not seeking totalitarian power over Drachenveil as that was not seen as proper, or even feasible with all the different idealogies in the city.