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The Boritsi family nearly 800 years ago were one of several successful mercantile families that used their wealth and influence to have themselves raised to the nobility of Prime Material Barovia when the nation was forged of independent city-states by the von Zarovich family in BC 1.^[1] Along with the Dilisnya Family, this marks them as one of the oldest noble families in the Land of Mists.^[2] Although an ancient family, Klaus Boritsi (670 BC-697 BC) is the first actual Boritsi to appear on the Boritsi family tree in the Realm of Terror boxed set (aka the Black Box), so little has been revealed about specific members of the Boritsi family prior to Klaus' entry upon the scene. His marriage to Camille Dilisnya (and subsequent murder by her) would change the course of the Boritsi family's history.^[3]

Historically, the family has been known for shrew skill in mercantile endeavors, such as the Boritsi Trading Company. The tendency towards soft-spoken mercantile ownership of everything in Borca, that changed with the death of Klaus Boritsi and the ascension of his wife Camille Dilisnya. Ruling with a harsh hand, Camille's preferred toil over trade, specifically, the toil of those on her land. The taxes she levied upon the nobles and other vassals were almost cruelly weighty, but those collected by her daughter Ivana Boritsi are even worse.^[4]

Despite Camille and later Ivana's turn away from trade and commerce, Ivana's siblings and their descendants persist in operating the Boritsi Trading Company much as before. Prior to the Great Upheaval, Sulo removed his family (save for his eldest children) from Borca to Bergovitsa, Nova Vaasa. There he has reached commercial success not only in that domain but also across the noctural sea. Sulo installed several offices in Armeikos on the isle of Liffe. Anton Boritsi was not as shrewd, and he perished in 739 BC under suspicious circumstances. He is survived by his wife and two children (Hellena Boritsi and Bevel Boritsi, whom run his operations in his stead. The work of both brother and their descendants have helped to distance the Bortisi name from the brutal regimes of Camille and Ivana, or at least show there is more to the name than tyranny.^[4]

The Boritsis are ones to take care of their friends, but they ensure great woe comes to those whom would transgress them.^[5]

Chronology

• 1 BC Following Prime Material Barovia's solidification as a nation state, the Boritsi Family is one of the families given noble status^[1]
• 662 BC Camille Dilisnya is born.^[3]
• 670 BC False History: Klaus Boritsi is born^[3] in Borca.
• 681 BC Camille Dilisnya becomes married to Siegfried Grymig
• 684 BC Borca forms with Camille Dilisnya as its darklord after she poisons her husband Siegfied Grymig and his mistress.^[3]
• 687 BC Camille Dilisnya marries Klaus Boritsi.
• 689 BC Ivana Boritsi is born to Camille Dilisnya and Klaus Boritsi.^[3][6]
• 694 BC Sulo Boritsi is born to Camille Dilisnya and Klaus Boritsi.^[3]
• 696 BC Anton Boritsi is born to Camille Dilisnya and Klaus Boritsi.^[3]
• 697 BC Klaus buys Danzig's Icon of Ezra and gives it to his daughter Ivana Boritsi.^[7]
• 697 BC Camille Dilisnya poisons Klaus Boritsi and his mistress.
• 697 BC Katarina Piechota is born. She will eventually go on to become the wife of Anton Boritsi.^[3]
• 698 BC Camille Dilisnya holds the Dinner of Death. It wipes out a large portion of the family tree.^[3]
• 699 BC Lucia Ritter is born. She will eventually go on to become the wife of Count Sulo Boritsi.^[3]
• 706 BC Ivana Boritsi discovers the powers of Danzig's Icon of Ezra. She prays in front of it to get a vision of how her love will work out for Pieter.^[8]
• 706 BC Camille Dilisnya manipulates Ivana Boritsi into killing her lover Pieter.^[9][6]
• 711 BC Ivana Boritsi turns her friend Nostalia Romaine into the first ermordenung, and used her to assassinate her mother^[10] Ivana subsequently becomes the new ruler and darklord of Borca.^[11][6]
• 716 BC Ivana Boritsi takes domination of Borca away from her mother Camille.^[12]
• 717 BC Ivana Boritsi gives birth to a child.^[3]
• 717 BC {: Starting on this approximate year, rumors start flying around about Ivana Boritisi giving birth to an illegitimate child
• 718 BC Lucia Ritter, the wife of Count Sulo Boritsi, bears him a child.^[3][13]
• 719 BC Katarina Piechota bears Anton Boritsi their first child.^[3]
• 724 BC Oton Boritsi is born to Anton Boritsi and Katarina Piechota in Borca. He is their second child.
• 729 BC Anton Boritsi dies. He is survived by his wife and children.^[3]
• 740 BC The Grand Conjunction occurs. Ivan Dilisnya panics but senses he can leave Dorvinia. He flees to Ivana Boritsi for comfort. Their close positions to each other result in the merging of their two domains as the Grand Conjuntion is concluded.^[11][14]
• 757 BC By this year, Oton Boritsi is 33. He has joined the Church of Ezra. He plans a conspiracy to seize power over the Church with the help of his fellow Scions of Yakov Dilisnya

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