<style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US style='tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:138.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:138.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><br> House Kathandros is not affiliated with any of the more modern Camarilla and Sabbat Clans, but has it's roots firmly anchored in the lands of Old Greece and the Balkan Foothills. House Kathandros was only formed, in name, several hundred years ago by Uli Palaelogus Kaethandragses. Uli himself is an Ex-Byzantine Kataphrakt Cavalry Officer, was off on campaign for Emperor Konstantinos XI when Constantinople fell. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:138.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyText style='tab-stops:138.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Overcome with anger, Uli and his cohort of Thracian Cataphracts assembeled on the field with the warrior known as Dracula to meet the Ottoman Turks in the lands of Transylvania. The Battle itself was won, with a loss of over 90% of Uli's loyal Cataphracts. When Dracula made his pact with Satan and the Unholy Uli was moping up the last remnants of the enemy, he returned to Castle Dracula nearly a week after the Count had been corrupted.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:138.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyText style='tab-stops:138.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Bitten by Dracula himself, Uli in turned bit the remaining hundred or so Cataphracts making up the survivors of his cohort, vowing in their own blood to avenge the massacre at Constantinople, their little band set out back for Thrace to retake what was theirs by name and rights. In a bloody battle with an enormously larger Turkish Force, Uli and his force utterly demolished over a thousand Turkish soldiers, and then proceeded towards Constantinople, known as the 'Blood Riders' by their Turkish Foe.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:138.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:138.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>However at Constantinople they met a different fate, as powerful as they were, the Vampiric Byzantines could not stand up to being blown apart by cannon fire, and sometimes by chance the occasional wooden spear pierced their heart. In the end they were driven off, but the moat of the great city and it's doorsteps ran red with the blood of it's founders, and by a chance of fate, Uli himself struck down the Turkish Commander, Balthogu in single combat.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:138.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:138.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>It was said to be an Omen.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:138.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:138.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>With the last ten of his loyal men living, Uli and his Cataphracts rode away from the Turkish Half Moon and past the lands of Dracula, and into Hungary and Lithuania and the lands beyond. Casting off the dead Byzantine name of Kaethandragses, he took a more Hungarian sounding one, Kathandros. He and his Cohort began living in Hungary, the last remnants of a dead civilization as he formed the House of Kathandros, he and his coven turned what they could, drinking what they needed to survive, as Uli never forgot his crusade against the Turks.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:138.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:138.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>In approximately 1600, the House of Kathandros' numbers were swelling near the thousands, and once more the Byzantine Cohort of Blood marched forth to retake their city. Tales tell that when the Sultan in Constantinople (now Istanbul) heard that a pale warrior was riding and bathing in the blood of his troops, just as 150 years before, he soiled himself.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:138.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:138.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Again, in another horribly bloody battle the House of Kathandros was destroyed down to a number of twenty men, but what it cost the armies of Istabul was an unfathomable cost, said to be a reason the Turkish Empire was soon beaten from mainland Greece and the Balkans. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:138.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:138.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>With the last of his men, only three of his original companions remaining alive, Uli struck out for the smaller province of Ayenee, hoping to regain his fortunes.</span></p> </div> </body> </html>