Vespers had ended on the Monday after Easter, 1282.  Constance Salvo was coming down the steps at the Church of the Holy Spirit, just outside Palermo, when she was approached by a Frenchman, Robert Maine.  The conversation between the two was not overheard by anyone else, but it did draw the attention of the crowd when Constance struck Robert across the face.  Later, that night, Constance told her husband, Pietro, that Robert had made several advances upon her.  The Salvo family was well tied into many different merchant and trade groups in the city, and performed many different services for them.  Pietro Salvo called together his family and those they did business with, and related to them what Robert had done.  Over the next several nights, the Sicilians of Palermo rose up against the French, killing not just every Frenchmen, but even those Sicilian women who had married them, and the children born of those marriages.

Unnamed report

The Sicilians have lost control of their own Requiem here in Sicily.  Of course, you can’t tell them that, they are an old, proud, bloodline.  But, look, the Norman Deava arrived in Palermo centuries ago, wormed their way throughout the city and eventually took its heart.  A decade ago, a dozen French knights managed to orchestrate a coup in Messina and took the heavily armed port city – to this night, no one really knows how.  All that is left is Syracuse, and the dying dynasty that controls it.  What that means, though, is that the most important island in all of Christendom is open to everyone regardless their station in life, particularly those clever enough and aggressive enough to muscle their way in. 

Jack Lord, Gangrel Privateer

As is our Tradition, the Kindred of Syracuse invite all of those in the Kingdom of Sicily to join us for an evening of feasting and celebration, of challenges and tournaments, music and theater.  It has been many years since we have all gathered under the light of the moon, and both reveled in our past and rejoice in our shared future.

Hiero IV of Syracuse, Ventrue Lord of Syracuse

A Vampire Requiem LARP

October 16th * 3pm - 9pm

Theatre Momentum

1800 W. Cornelia Ave

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