Category:D'Honaire Family

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The d'Honaire family were an initially Mordentish family of mostly healers so well-known and favored that, despite not technically being Mordentish nobility, they were able to accrue wealth and property. Locked inside this weird niche between noble and commoner, the d'Honaires never sought political power until Germain d'Honaire came along. Unlike his predecessors, Germain focused his research and treatment on maladies of the mind, becoming a skilled mesmerist. He also ascribe different future in society he wanted his children to have.^[1]

Germain's wishes for most of his children would turn out not to be. He had wanted Maurice d'Honaire to continue his practice, but Maurice was much too cold-hearted for such a feat. On the other hand, Bernadette d'Honaire, whom Germain expected to learn the ways of the nobility marry into the Weathermay Family, outright defied his wishes by going into medicine and marrying the giomorgo mystic Hugues Mousel. This turn of events effectively rent the family in half, with the d'Honaires on the one side of estrangement and the Mousel]s on the other. The animosity the d'Honaires felt did not cease or mellow after Germain's death in 707 BC. Bernadette and the other Mousels remained in Mordent whereas the rest of the d'Honaire clan migrated to the land of Dementlieu, a new formed domain of the Land of Mists.^[1]

in 733 BC, the slim-to-none relations turned into outright hostility when some murderers hired by Dominic d'Honaire made an assassination attempt on the Mousels. Both Hues and Bernadette met their demise as the hands of the assassins. However, their adult son Francois Mousel was able to escape thanks to the timely intervention of his son, James Mousel. Following this event, there was basically no contact between the two branches. Only with the correspondence of James and Celeste d'Honaire-Loverde would any level of discourse be achieved by approximately 756 BC to 757 BC.^[2]

The d'Honaires tend to be crafty thinkers who employ strategy and guile before brute force to solve problems.^[3] Unfortunately, a growing level of sociopathy rise with each new brood of the d'Honaires.^[4] Two main branches still exist, the Mousels of Mordent and Dementlieuse d'Honaires. A hypothetic third, "lost branch" might exist, if Angelique d'Honaire and her husband Bertrand Shroeder were able to survive the treacherous sea voyage they set out on in 719 BC.^[5]

Chronology

• 579 BC Dr. Germain d'Honaire, a mesmerist and grandfather to Dominic d'Honaire is in Mordent when it enters Ravenloft.^[6][7][8]
• 634 BC Germain d'Honaire is born.^[9]
• 650 BC Alicia Corgiat, future wife of Germaine d'Honaire, is born.^[9]
• 678 BC Bernadette d'Honaire is born to Alicia Corgiat d'Honaire and Germaie d'Honaire.^[9]
• 678 BC Hugues Mousel, future husband of Bernadette d'Honaire, is born.^[9]
• 679 BC Claude d'Honaire is born to Alicia Corgiat d'Honaire and Germaie d'Honaire.^[9]
• 688 BC Bernadette d'Honaire is born to Alicia Corgiat d'Honaire and Germaie d'Honaire.^[9]
• 689 BC Ernestine Pasier, the future first wife of Claude d'Honaire, is born.^[10]
• 694 BC Alicia Norberte, future wife of Maurice d'Honaire is born.^[9]
• 698 BC Louise Girod, future second wife of Dominic d'Honaire, is born.^[9]
• 698 BC Joelle Fontaine, future wife of Francois Mousel, is born.^[9]
• 698 BC Bernadette d'Honaire marries Hugues Mousel, a giomorgo mystic, defying her father, Germain d'Honaire's wishes for her to wed into the Weathermay Family. This defiance alienates Germain, and through him, the rest of the D'Honaire Family from Bernadette.^[1]
• 699 BC Claude d'Honaire and Babette Batista d'Honaire have a child of unspecified name.^[9]
• 699 BC Francois Mousel is born to Bernadette d'Honaire Mousel and Hughes Mousel.^[9]
• 700 BC Raymond Bioume, future husband of Madeleine Mousel, is born.^[9]
• 700 BC Dominic d'Honaire is born to Ernestine Pasier d'Honaire and Claude d'Honaire, but Ernestine dies in childbirth.^[9]
• 701 BC Claude d'Honaire and Babette Batista d'Honaire have a second child.^[9] This child is Angelique d'Honaire.^[3]
• 702 BC Madeleine Mousel is born to Bernadette d'Honaire Mousel and Hughes Mousel.^[9]
• 703 BC Louise Pecquet, future first wife of Dominic d'Honaire, is born.^[9]
• 703 BC Julienne d'Honaire is born to Babette Batista d'Honaire and Claude d'Honaire.^[9]
• 707 BC Germaine d'Honaire dies.^[9][1]
• 707 BC The domain of Dementlieu appears, and the d'Honaire family emigrates there.^[11] Unlike her brothers, Bernadette remains in Mordent and returns to Mordentshire, living in the old d'Honaie mansion and practicing healing and mesmerism.
• 707 BC Bernard Loverde, future husband of Julienne d'Honaire, is born.^[9]
• 713 BC A new, elusive, and mysterious crime lord known as the Brain starts manipulating Port-a-Lucine.^[12]
• 715 BC Maurice d'Honaire and Alicia Norbert d'Honaire have a child.^[9] This child is Paul d'Honaire.^[13]
• 719 BC Against the family's wishes, Angelique d'Honaire weds Betrand Shroeder. Claude d'Honaire flies in a rage and puts a bounty on their heads. The pair receive passage to Martira Bay, but they mysteriously disappear along the way.^[3] Their fate has yet to be determined, but some possibilities have been suggested.^[14]
• 720 BC Bernadette gives the Mordent estate to her son, Francois Mousel. He transforms it into the Mousel Sanitarium for Mental Health and begins practicing a combination of Germain and Bernadette's techniques.^[1]
• 721 BC Francois Mousel and Joelle Fontaine Mousel have a child of unspecified name.^[9]
• 722 BC Dominic d'Honaire II is born to Louise Pecquet d'Honaire and Dominic d'Honaire.^[9]
• 723 BC Maurice d'Honaire and Alicia Norbert d'Honaire have a second child.^[9] This child is Remy d'Honaire.^[13]
• 724 BC Two children of unspecified names are born to Dominic d'Honaire and Louise Pecquet d'Honaire.^[9]
• 725 BC Julienne d'Honaire and Bernard Loverde have a child of unspecified name.^[9]
• 725 BC Claude d'Honaire and Babette Batista d'Honaire have a child of unspecified name.^[9]
• 726 BC Gerard d'Honaire is born Julienne d'Honaire and Bernard Loverde ^[9]
• 727 BC Claude d'Honaire becomes terribly weakened by disease, leading to his replacement by Dominic D'Honaire as chief adviser to the Lord-Governor.^[15] Dominic arranged his father's sickness to prevent Claude from becoming governor, preferring the family to keep their roles as advisors under figurehead leaders rather than assume the titles themselves.^[16]
• 729 BC Domnic d'Honaire and Louse Pecquet d'Honaire produce another child of unspecified name, but Louise dies.^[9]
• 730 BC By this time, Dominic d'Honaire has achieved dominance over Dementlieu thanks to his Obendients and machinations.^[16]
• 730 BC Dominic d'honaire attempts to dominate Paul d'Honaire, whom defiantly wants to become a soldier instead of a mesmerist like Germain was. Paul runs away at the age of 15.^[2]
• 731 BC Madeleine d'Honaire Bioume and Raymond Bioume have a child of unspecified name.^[9]
• 733 BC Paul d'Honaire outrages the family by returning as a soldier married a Falkovnian refugee named Kara. Dominic blearily accepts this as he dominates Kara and controls Paul by proxy.
• 733 BC Gerard d'Honaire visits his relatives Bernadette and Francois Mousel.^[2]
• 733 BC Bernadette, Hugues Mousel, and Gerard die^[9]. They are are assassinated by murderers hired by Dominic's Obedients (and thus, through them, Dominic himself.) James Mousel, Francois' son, intervenes to save his father.^[2]
• 734 BC Dominic d'Honaire and Louise Girod d'Honaire have a child of unspecified name.^[9]
• 739 BC Celeste d'Honaire-Loverde is born to Julienne d'Honaire and Bernard Loverde^[17]
• 740 BC Claude d'Honaire and Babette Batista d'Honaaire have a fourth child, this one of unspecified name.^[13]
• 752 BC Having developed the Analytical Method with his son James, Francois Mousel retires. James goes on to become even more of a pioneer in his field, though he continually faces critical rejection from the intellectuals of Dementlieu.^[2]
• 756 BC-757 BC James Mousel begins correspondence with the young Celeste d'Honaire, whom shows a great admiration for his work. After she pays him a visit, he gently pushes her to work with Dr. Vilhelm Mikki back in Chateaufaux. In James' attempts to smooth relations over with Dominic, he inadvertently complicates things^[2]
• 757 BC Thought its agents, the Brain delivers a threat to Julienne and her family. She rushes to Dominic for advice. He makes arrangements with Jacqueline Renier to secure them transport and refuge in Pont-a-Museau.^[3]

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