Maurice d'Honaire
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Maurice d'Honaire (b. 688 BC) is the youngest son of Germaine d'Honaire and Alicia Corgiat d'Honaire as well as the uncle of Dominic d'Honaire. He married Alicia Norberte.[1]
Background
Maurice d'Honaire was the younger brother of Claude d'Honaire and Bernadette d'Honaire. Their father Germaine wished for his family to become more than servants to the Mordentish nobility; he wanted them to become nobles in their own right. He wanted Bernadette and Claude to become familiarized with culture and refinement as associated with the aristocracy, and for Maurice alone to pursue a career as a physician. Maurice failed to impress his father, as he seemed unable to connect with people or even to demonstrate a modicum of significant skill as a doctor. The family was rent in half when Bernadette married a giomorgo mystic named Hugues Mousel in 698 BC, preventing Germaine from seeing his family's ascension to true nobility through marriage into the Weathermay Family. Bernadette and Hugues migrated to Valachan, away from the rest of the d'Honaires. Germaine's bitterness and ill will towards the Mousels also tainted Claude's and Maurice's feelings towards them.[2]
In 707 BC following Germaine's death, Maurice followed his brother Claude in removing his family from their homeland into the Mists[3]. Claude believed this decision originated in his own mind, but this decision was in reality due to the subtle manipulations of then 7-year old Dominic d'Honaire. Young Dominic had driven his nanny to suicide and feared that Mordentish investigators would discover his involvement.[4] In any case, Claude led his family into the Mists, and they came out into the newly formed domain of Dementlieu,[3]. There the d'Honaire family - led by Claude and Maurice d'Honaire - gradually built fame and fortune. Claude became a favored advisor to Lord-Governor Marcel Guignol. Maurice gained financial success as a physician, treating ailments for the clueless nobility; most of these afflictions had no truth to them.[5]
However, more sinister reasons laid behind the d'Honaire's windfalls, for the Dark Powers had created Dementlieu as the domain for precociously evil Dominic. As he grew of age, his manipulative abilities became supernatural, granting him the powers of mental domination by simple act of will. Dominic's mind games earned his family a place of honor as a power behind the throne.[5]
Following the assassination attempt on the Mousel Family engineered by Dominic in 733 BC, Claude and Maurice served as convenient scapegoats for what happened as relations between the d'Honaire-Mousels of Mordent and the d'Honaires of Dementlieu declined. Although never proven, James Mousel, Bernadette's grandson, blamed them his two great uncles for the murder of his grandparents and character assassination of his father, and Dominic did not correct him.[6]
Children
Children with his wife, Alicia Norberte[7]:
- Paul d'Honaire (715 BC-present)
- Remy d'Honaire (723 BC-present)
- two other children in their teens
References
- ↑ Realm of Terror p.122
- ↑ Legacy of the Blood p. 25
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Domains of Dread p. 17, 33
- ↑ Gazetteer III p. 123
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Legacy of the Blood p. 26
- ↑ Legacy of the Blood p. 27
- ↑ Legacy of the Blood p. 29
Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue
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