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The House di Orazio was one of modest foundations, with earliest records of the family being noted upon a self-made landowner, duly known as Orazio dei Torono. By his death in 199 A.C, Orazio dei Torono maintained a humble collection of land and properties under his belt, and with these he would establish a dynasty that'd eventually go on to manage much of the Vultaro peninsula's coal supply, and even eventually dabble in the likes of Regalian politics. Despite their status now as commoners, the family always bounces back, one way or another.
Social Standing: Blue-blooded commoners.
Political Alignment: Azzizzari Hiltfrontists.
Matriarch: Jovanka di Orazio.
Colors: Green, White, and Gold.
Lineage: Drahl.
Theme: Affluent & Classy Azzizzari Moderates.
Anthem: Ode to Torono.
Religion: Vultarin Church of Unionism.
Culture: Azzizzari & Dressolini.
Values: Culture, Respect, Dignity, & Class.
Business & Trades: Coal Mining.
Origins: Torono City, Vultaro.
Orazio di Torono was a simple man, as Orazio family histories would dictate. Born the son of a simple merchant in the city of Torono, Orazio dei Torono was recorded to have received a practical education in basic arithmetic and accounting/trade. Being the designated heir for this small-time company of trade, Orazio dei Torono was led into something of a linear life. However, recent re-delegation of the territories north of the earldom of Torono begged settlement in the desolate mountain. cliffs, and hills. Conveniently, ducal beckons for re-settlement coincided perfectly with Orazio dei Torono's maturity into adulthood. A marriage arranged by Orazio's father with another small merchant family brought forth a sizable dowry, a sum of Regals that would spark a rather extravagant scheme.
The urbanized regions of Torono hardly had a problem in administration. Local mayors, burghers, and municipal delegates delivered and enacted ducal order with efficiency. However, in the northern territories of Lucino, matters were contrasted. Taxes from the various villages and small towns were hardly collected, and when they were, they were never sufficient in amount. Ducal authority of the House de Morra waned so easily northwards, and the ever-present need for ever tax coin prompted the search for a solution. By ducal decree, land boundaries were redrawn and further divided into plots of land available for cheap purchase, a prospect that greatly interested the young, flamboyant Orazio dei Torono. With his marital dowry passed to him by his father, Orazio made the risky gamble of purchasing swaths of land in Lucino, namely the northern mountain sides and cliffs. Inhabited by a few vineyard tenants, the lands and their attached properties barely made a profit, as was so haughtily pointed out by Orazio's father and in-laws. In the end, Orazio dei Torono inherited his father's business fortunes and was able to support himself, his wife, and three sons.
By law, all assets held by Orazio dei Torono were passed to his first son, Francesco dei Torono, as primogeniture inheritance demanded. It was Francesco di Torono who would give proper rise to the House di Orazio. In a display of his grandiose ambition, Francesco dei Torono transformed the commoner surname shared by many of Torono to a bold, aristocrat-styled name. Any and all legal identification of Orazio dei Torono's family was duly changed to di Orazio in remembrance of the beloved father. Thus, the House di Orazio was born with Francesco di Orazio at the helm.
Francesco di Orazio's blazing ambition to expand what little profit he had and improve his familial position drove him to investigate this seemingly worthless land his father had purchased on a whim. With the assistance of a few stewards and even some contractors, the land's overall value was assessed along with its attached properties and tenants. However, along this analysis came the discovery of copious coal veins within caves, ravines, and even exposed cliffside. The Vultaro peninsula had been a producer of coal for the empire since its rise, however, the business mostly found roots in northern Vultaro, where the dukes of Dressolini and Vultaro made their fortune. The prospect of coal in the southern end of the peninsula had been an endeavor well sought after, though many patrician and noble families found their due in mercantile trade instead. The rich amount of coal set upon the lands possessed by the House di Orazio would spark their sudden rise to prominence amongst their peers, export and sale of this black gold competing with the shaky monopolies of the north.
Generations onward, the House di Orazio steadily grew in wealth and numbers. Cousins sired more children, and mainline di Orazio's were strategically married among other land-owning families in Lucino, leading to dowries in land absorption, bankruptcy bailouts, and general expansion. By the year 231 A.C. the House di Orazio was on par with their liege lords, the House de Morra. Their amassed wealth would prompt the attention of the House de Morra, a small series of marriages and loans and favors thrown back and forth.In the year 235 A.C., the House di Orazio was "gifted" the earldom of Lucino in a dowry exchange with the suddenly less-than-prosperous de Morra. Thus brought the House di Orazio's step into peerage, and with their acquisition of the earldom, the House's ambition and vigor only sharpened.
Whilst the House di Orazio duly maintained their title, the House de Morra only began to sink lower and lower. Inter-family conflict over succession, inheritance, and other such vendettas tore the family apart in a tragic series of assassinations, murder attempts, and other such scarring acts of blood against blood. This time of familial chaos is dubbed,"L'Orrore", or,"The Horrors". While The Horrors ravaged the ducal house, the House di Orazio stepped in for the decade of chaos, managing the duchy from behind the curtains while they allowed the House de Morra to eat away at itself.
By the turn of the century in 300 A.C., the House de Morra was extinguished to just one mainline male, Bernardo Gabriel de Morra, nephew to the current Regentess Georgiana di Orazio. Being the only mainline male heir and having not sired any sons, Bernardo's sudden death prompted an immediate emergency flag for succession. From here judicial professionals were employed by Georgiana di Orazio, elder sister of Bernardo Gabriel de Morra's father and thereby aunt of Bernardo. Georgiana's lawyers cited that the nearest male heir, while not legally of the House de Morra, was the son of her passed son, her grandson Francesco Raoul di Orazio, a boy of eleven. Citing her weak, thin claims on the ducal seat, she managed the position of regent until her grandson came of age, and thus the House di Orazio came to ascend into their ducal position. However, the Qadir war sucked these titles away from the Family. The di Orazios failed to betray the state and take an oath to the Sultanate, and their lands were redistributed to new families. Them Georgiana and Francesco were captured and kept in Greygate Prison, where they both caught a deadly disease and died.
The crises at hand sent the family into turmoil. The family went into retreat or hid around the archipelago. In Torono, the family retreated to living in the Scolgiera estate, which was essentially transformed into a fort sitting in the Vultarian mountains. In the city proper, Piero took over the head of the family, and retreated into a small safehouse in the city. The revolution ensued, and the city was returned to Ailor control. However, the di Orazio family has been formally hurt and and removed from its former glory days. After the Qadir Occupation, Piero di Orazio and his younger sons continued to run the family from the Regalian city proper, rather than the mountainous cliffs of their homeland, Torono. At this time, the rest of the family stayed in Torono, managing the di Orazio coal business which had a sudden boom as Regalia prepared with its next war on Arlora.
The di Orazio's seemed to disappear from the city proper as the Bone Horror Apocalypse began, a slew of family deaths, city-wide troubles, and Piero's advancing age sending them packing back to Torono with their heads hanging low. They quietly endured Lo Occupation from their homelands, only able to offer meager financial support as they too took a massive hit as the economy plummeted. Despite the Emperor's successful retaking of the city proper, things would not begin to look bright for the di Orazio's until the coronation of Emperor Cedromar I; the militant Emperor spelled out fortune and glory in bright neon letters for the new generation of di Orazio's, who had just come to age. One by one, Piero's oldest son Giovanni and all of his children came back to the Crown Island, looking to bring up the name and legacy of the di Orazio's once again.
After a time of success, with the family holding two counties and a lofty position in the Admiralty. However this fortune was not meant to last, with the family drifting on the fringes of relevancy later as time passed, to the point where the family lost their titles during the New Model Noble programme started under the reign of Emperor Cedromar I, and the family slowly filed out of Regalia proper back home, seemingly content with their wealth as coal magnates. With the return of Pellegrino into the fold after renouncing his family and striking it out on his own after disagreements with Piero, the former artilleryman began rebuilding the former glory of the family by investing in new mines, better infrastructure in Torono, and improving living standards. He then went about wresting control of the family from Giovanni through means not dissimilar to the former regent Georgiana's methods of taking House de Morra's titles. Legal paperwork and numerous affidavits and what seemed to be Piero's will all but anointed Pellegrino as the new Patriarch of the family, who immediately set about regaining his family's status as members of the peerage, and ensuring careful relations with the Iron Duke of Vultaro. Present day, the family has returned to the Holy City of Lights to strike it out for themselves as people worthy of being remembered. Pellegrino however tired of the day-to-day responsibilities of being Patriarch, and groomed a young child of Alessandro di Orazio to become the new successor, that being the ambitious Jovanka di Orazio, who currently now leads the family as Matriarch into a bright future.
- Vicenza di Orazio - 76 - Bitter Lover, Fashionista - Available
- Angelo di Orazio - 69 - Instroduzione of the Istituzione di Scherma - Available
- Zappacosta di Orazio - 78 - Stern Traditionalist, Viticulturist - Deceased
- Gisa di Orazio née von Giegedreher - 72 - Daughter of Calemberger Luthiers - Deceased
- Pellegrino di Orazio - 55 - Caffeine addicted artillery officer - [ @MrScafuto ]
- Alessandro di Orazio - 43 - Helerian Guard, Ladies Man - Deceased
- Efisio Maria di Orazio - 40 - Boisterous Feer-Drakken Archblood - Available
- Edoardo di Orazio - 34 - Glory Hunting Ranger - Available
- Camilla (dei Moreno) di Orazio - 34 - Occasional War Criminal and Beloved Daughter of Pellegrino - [ @Ailethi ]
- Capriana di Orazio - 29 - Courtly Lady & Historian - Available
- Isabella di Orazio - 27 - Artsy, Wine Drinking Painter - Available
- Jovanka di Orazio - 23 - Long Lost Daen, Curious Matriarch - [ @Zubile ]
- Teodora di Orazio - 22 - Alchemist, Chatterbox - Available
Piero di Orazio - 71 - Former Patriarch, Senile Tactician - Deceased
Simona di Orazio - 76 - Loving Grandmother, Chef - Available
- Giovanni di Orazio - 55- Former patriarch - Deceased
- Aurelia di Orazio - 54 - Giovanni's first wife - Deceased
- Carlotta di Orazio - 45 - Career Politician, Gossip - Available
- Luigi di Orazio - 49 - Tactician, Powerseeker - Available
- Sabrina di Orazio - 47 - Luigi's Wife, Matrona of Orazei Coal Corporation, Silent & Brooding - Available
- Sonia di Orazio - 30 - Inquisitive, Lawyer - Available
- Valentino di Orazio - 29 - Man of the Military, Smooth Talker - Available
- Gasparini di Orazio - 25 - Protective Brother, Skilled Villiers Knight - Available
- Luca di Orazio - 24 - Curate-in-training - Available
- Siena di Orazio - 22 - Coin-operated Entrepreneur - Available
- Stefano di Orazio - 19 - Lover of Books & Knowledge - Available
The jewel of the House di Orazio. A large manor opulently decorated with fine woods, stones, and other precious luxuries, the property also maintains wide swaths of land. With the Scolgiera is the seat of the House di Orazio, it goes without saying it is their most prized possession. Sitting comfortably on the mountain ranges between the earldoms of Lucino and Torono, the Scolgiera finds itself atop the centuries old mines owned by Orazio dei Torono. Though the property lacks any coal or valuable mineral below it, it still serves as a symbol of the House di Orazio's power and innate pride.
Perched precariously on a cliff near the roaring waters of southern Torono, the Diamante della Costa is a more recent acquisition of the House di Orazio, having been purchased not a decade ago. Being but a liege away from the city of Lucino, the Diamante della Costa tends to serve as the place of residence for the Orazio lineage who wish to escape their personal townhouses in the city proper. Boasting small tracts of land around it, there are a few gardens and even a small forest of sorts nearby, prompting a lovely sport of hunt or perhaps just a brief appreciation of nature.
Having stood as prominent miners of the mineral since the end of the first century of the empire, the House di Orazio's hold on the coal industry tightened to an iron grip with the fall of the House Lampero, and kowtowing upon their return. Having bought out their bankrupt mines and companies, the House di Orazio stands as one of the major producers of coal in the Regalian Empire.
Advocates of the leisure sport since it's rise in popularity during the Bella Agitazione period, the House di Orazio founded an institution of Dressolini Fencing after their own Angelo di Orazio reached the rank of Instroduzione in his earlier years. While it does provide a steady source of income for the family, it also is a source of pride for the di Orazio's to see their students win Vultarin tournaments and bring fame to their L'Orazio Istituzioni di Scherma.
Previously held by Pellegrino di Orazio
Previously held by Giovanni di Orazio
Previously held by Pellegrino (Venanzi) di Orazio
Previously held by Valentino di Orazio
Previously held by Francesco Raoul di Orazio (with regent) & Piero di Orazio
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