The House of Uchitel
A grand and stately manor that was once Drachma's proud center of learning named after its founder. In these hallowed halls were the blood curse concocted and the means by which to tame it. It now serves as the base of operations of The Drachman Hunters Order though most of it is abandoned.
In the long years that have passed the original cause for the curse is long forgotten though the reason for the order remains unforgettable.
The house is a large castle with sharp spires, clawing at the sky. It sits atop a waterfall with bridges extending out to either side. The southeastern bridge has crumbled into disrepair and while it's still possible to cross it individually moving an army across it would be impossible.
History
The house of Uchitel was founded by Dragomir Uchitel a veritable genius. He made a bargain with a powerful vampire lady to make creatures weapons and research for her in exchange for his house being protected by her in perpetuity. The house became a haven for the rich and therefore well educated one of the smartest being Caryll who lead the research on vampire blood or as it came to be called "The Old Blood". they pushed forward science by decades in the house experimenting and delving into forbidden secrets the house was built over an abandoned illithid hive and as they investigated the morphogenic experiments of the illithids the discovered how to change their own forms. The fluids they harvested from the illithid remnants they called the "eldritch" or "elder" blood. They experimented with the old blood and the eldritch blood in a search to find a way to free their country from the oppression of their overlords and in doing so discovered how to create hunters. Unfortunately during their search they created a number of monsters for the vampires, amongst them, lycanthropes and this is the reason that they can be found commonly in the Drachman Regency.
Other experiments were conducted including alchemical and mechanical. The workshop created the first powder weapons, they created quicksilver bullets that would wound vampires and the beasts created from their blood and they also created trick weapons used to destroy the vampires that they began to hunt. The Hunters came from Uchitel an order of elite warriors perfectly adapted to fight vampires and their spawn. They freed the north from vampiric rule but were never trusted and eventually a few scant years after being freed many of the hunters were killed out of fear that they sought to take over. Uchitel was attacked but never fell and what few hunters remained negotiated a peace treaty granting them the power to hunt vampires and beasts spawned by them with greater latitude but they may never hold any other job or office.
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