Rossetti Family

The Rossetti Family is one of the noble houses of the trade city of Calabras. Originally a powerful family with many holdings, their power shrank when the last male head of the family, Vieri Rossetti, was killed by an assassin. His wife, Conciata Rossetti, a powerful elven mage and shrewd in the ways of power games, took control of the family. She kept the family strong and kept their interests going, however she wanted her husband back. To this end, she studied necromantic spells until she discovered a ritual to bring one back to life. In an attempt to bring Vieri back, the spell backfired and killed all the living people in the district. Conciata herself was cursed to be an undead, and her husband was still dead. She eventually became known as the Pale Mistress, and retreated from much of the ongoings in the city. Most of the family operations are now handled by the few surviving members of the family who were not in the district when the ritual was cast. The Pale Mistress herself is now used mainly as a means to animate corpses to serve the houses and guilds. While the family's holdings are not as great as they once were, none of the guilds or noble houses dare to move against her lest they risk her undead wrath.