Расмодели

Расмодели are a noble family from the mainland of Gielinor who arrived on Эшенфолл during the Third Age. Adept at moving in higher social circles, they became indispensable to the Дети теней before turning the tables and dominating the order entirely. Their long-standing reputation for poison and a series of escalating incidents eventually forced the family's retreat to Даудун-Рич, where the eldest son, Milliburn Rasmodel, rose to become Master of the keep and founder of the Shadow Knights.

Milliburn Rasmodel

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Milliburn Rasmodel, also known as Лорд Расмодель, was the eldest son of the family and the twenty-fifth Lord of Rasmodel. As Master of Dowdun Reach and founder of the Shadow Knights, he was the most powerful figure in the keep's history. He was known for a methodical, accumulative approach to advantage, expressed in his own words as: "stack opportunities, one on top of the other, and soon you will have an impregnable tower." His body currently remains within the Крепость Чёрных рыцарей, resurrected and transformed by the energies of the shattered Dreaming Stone, where he unknowingly guards the passage to Сумрачные пески.

Атилий Расмодель

Атилий Расмодель was a knight of considerable renown during an earlier era of Ashenfall's history. An exceptionally capable swordswoman, she became one of Fellhollow's most celebrated fighters and was personally chosen by the dragon Имару to serve among her guards. She took on the title of Dragon Knight of her own accord, and it stuck. When Кулдра descended on the region and demanded humanity's destruction, Atilius mounted Ксикотал and rode into battle against the Godeater. She fell in the attempt, dying at the dragon's side.

Other members

The father of Milliburn and the youngest is not named in any known source. His death at Dowdun Reach was what prompted Milliburn to begin the work of restoring the family's standing.

The youngest of the family is similarly unnamed, known only for the act that brought the family's operations to an end.

История

A noble family originally from the mainland, the Rasmodels carried their aristocratic standing with them when they crossed to Ashenfall. They arrived during the Third Age alongside the broader wave of settlers fleeing the God Wars, with Zamorakian elements moving covertly among the Saradominist expeditions. Their access to the upper echelons of society made them immediately valuable to the Дети теней, for whom influence among the powerful was the primary currency.

The Children of Shadows initially held the family in low regard, dismissing them as preening peacocks with little to offer beyond appearances. They were wrong. The Rasmodels steadily worked their way into positions of authority across the order until the two groups became effectively one and the same. The family's schemes in Храмовый лес and Брэмблмид carried risks, and they demanded protection in return for their services. Members of the Children were assigned to guard them, an arrangement that planted the seed of what would later become the Shadow Knights. Alongside this scheming the family maintained a visible public presence in Bramblemead, competing regularly in the archery tournaments held there. Their names were etched into trophies often enough that the family became as recognised for their skill at arms as for their noble blood.

The family had long carried a reputation for poison throughout Temple Woods and Bramblemead; locals knew better than to leave food or drink unattended in their presence. When a family member was eventually caught in the act, suspicion became established fact and the Rasmodels were expelled from the region to Dowdun. The notoriety followed them and proved, on the whole, more asset than liability; few in Dowdun Reach were willing to risk crossing them. The clearest example of this came through a childhood incident involving a young Milliburn and his cousin. Milliburn wagered he could shoot an apple from his cousin's head and won the bet, but the cousin then ate a portion of the apple and died. Milliburn's explanation, that he had unknowingly used one of his father's tainted hunting arrow, was credible enough to go unproven, but the doubt it raised followed him for years. By the time he was eight, few in Dowdun Reach felt comfortable sharing a room with him.

The family's position in the wider region collapsed when the youngest was discovered attempting to poison a sleeping bailiff. With their cover gone, they lost the influence and entourage they had built up and were confined within the walls of the keep, a wing of which was given over to them. After the death of the family's father, Milliburn threw himself into the running of Dowdun Reach, taking on the training of forces and the management of its quartermasters. The family pressed him to restore what had been lost, and he answered that pressure by proving himself indispensable. His qualities as a leader were recognised and he was elected Master of the keep, whereupon the Children of Shadows began referring to him as Lord Rasmodel. His bodyguards never left his side.

Lord Rasmodel's tenure was characterised by a persistent and worsening sleeplessness. Two entities contended for his mind through his dreams, their voices monotonous and unrelenting, and he found them as wearing as the company of a tiresome nobleman. Those around him learned to gauge his temper by the time of day. His working relationship with Архимаг Алрик frayed steadily, with Rasmodel at times suspecting Alric of engineering his nightly torment. Deciding the situation required a structural solution, he drew his most loyal bodyguards into a new knightly order built around his personal command. The Shadow Knights were the result, and the order would grow harder over time into the Black Knights. Throughout his rule, Lord Rasmodel was seldom seen without his mithril warhammer. On mornings when his sleep had been worst it supported him; in the afternoons it served as a quiet warning to those nearby. He regarded naming weapons as a juvenile habit, but observers noted that he would occasionally rest a hand on the hammer's head in an unguarded moment.

When an infernal demon broke loose during a Shadow Knight training session and killed the recruits, Rasmodel and Alric withdrew together to settle matters privately. The outcome was that Rasmodel assumed sole authority over the Dreaming Stone and the power it generated, with the demonic portal placed under strict rationing. The madness that had haunted Rasmodel's own sleep soon began manifesting among the Shadow Knights themselves. The afflicted fell not to any visible wound but to an erosion of mind, some fixating on the Dreaming Stone with a devotion that resembled worship. Rasmodel visited those on the edge of collapse. Among them was a soldier he had known years before, who now spoke in tones eerily reminiscent of the voice from his dreams. He left her bedside without a word and received no further visitors that day. As more of the afflicted took on that same quality, he noticed that his presence among them seemed to draw them back to coherence momentarily, each one pressing him with a variant of the same instruction: yield to the Dreaming Stone. He began to consider whether the affliction had come to Dowdun specifically for him.

Rasmodel chose destruction over submission and brought his warhammer down on the stone. The stone broke and the voices stopped. For the first time in years he felt something close to peace. What followed, however, was worse than what had come before.

In the silence after the shattering, Rasmodel found himself surrounded by a vision of the entire Rasmodel family gathered and dressed as they would have been at the height of the family's standing. His father knelt before him. "Rest," he said. "We will take it from here." Milliburn Rasmodel, twenty-fifth Lord of Rasmodel, took his retirement. What he experienced as a peaceful end was in reality his claiming: the two entities that had fought over his mind through the Dreaming Stone took him as their spoils when the stone shattered, and his body has remained within the Black Knight's Fortress ever since.

Источники

↑ Journal entry of Титан Чёрных рыцарей, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "Milliburn Rasmodel, twenty-fifth Lord of Rasmodel"
↑ Journal entry of Barbed Mithril Arrow, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "stack opportunities, one on top of the other, and soon you will have an impregnable tower"
↑ Journal entry of Стальной меч, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "Atilius Rasmodel was a proud and powerful knight. Her skill with the sword was without compare and her bravery seemingly infinite against the dangers in Fellhollow."
↑ Journal entry of Стальной меч, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "She died beside the dragon she had sworn to protect, free of all remorse, in the line of duty."
↑ Journal entry of Латный нагрудник Чёрного рыцаря, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "On the death of the father, the eldest Rasmodel son, Milliburn, looked to regain some of the family's lost pride."
↑ Journal entry of Латный нагрудник Чёрного рыцаря, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "the youngest had been caught pouring tincture into the ears of a sleeping bailiff"
↑ Journal entry of Шлем Чёрного рыцаря, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "The Rasmodels were nobility on the mainland, and retained that air of nobility in Ashenfall."
↑ Ashenfall — The God Wars
↑ Journal entry of Шлем Чёрного рыцаря, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "higher circles were where the seeds of chaos are best sown"
↑ Journal entry of Шлем Чёрного рыцаря, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "The Children of Shadows made the mistake of seeing the Rasmodels as peacocks, preening and insufferable."
↑ Journal entry of Шлем Чёрного рыцаря, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "suddenly the Children and the Rasmodels were synonymous"
↑ Journal entry of Шлем Чёрного рыцаря, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "Some of the Children were assigned to the Rasmodel, and a different kind of seed was sown."
↑ Journal entry of Кленовый длинный лук, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "Etched into the trophy, you would find many Rasmodels. They were a noble bloodline on Ashenfall, and would often add to their reputation by earning combat trophies."
↑ Journal entry of Отравленная мифриловая стрела, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "cover your cup, mouth and ears around a Rasmodel"
↑ Journal entry of Отравленная мифриловая стрела, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "One of the family was finally caught red-handed... They were banished to Dowdun."
↑ Journal entry of Отравленная мифриловая стрела, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "No-one in Dowdun Reach wanted to cross the Rasmodels for fear of waking up in spasms."
↑ Journal entry of Отравленная мифриловая стрела, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "Even at the age of eight, the inhabitants of Dowdun Reach gave Lord Rasmodel a wide berth."
↑ Journal entry of Латный нагрудник Чёрного рыцаря, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "the youngest had been caught pouring tincture into the ears of a sleeping bailiff. Their entourage and influence no longer meant anything, and they were forced to live in the keep."
↑ Journal entry of Гнев титана, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "His family pushed and cajoled him to further the Rasmodel name."
↑ Journal entry of Латный нагрудник Чёрного рыцаря, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "he was duly elected as Master of Dowdun Reach. The Children of Shadows took to calling him 'Lord Rasmodel'."
↑ Journal entry of Гнев титана, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "he was beset by nightmares, as two malevolent beings grappled over his mind"
↑ Journal entry of Латные поножи Чёрного рыцаря, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "his dreams kept him up... dull and interminable, like being locked in a room with a droning aristocrat"
↑ Journal entry of Латные поножи Чёрного рыцаря, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "He was cruel before noon, fair in the afternoons, and stern all day."
↑ Journal entry of Латные поножи Чёрного рыцаря, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "The Shadow Knights were born, and time would harden them into the Black Knights."
↑ Journal entry of Мифриловый боевой молот, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "The mithril warhammer was once the weapon most associated with Lord Rasmodel of Dowdun Reach."
↑ Journal entry of Капюшон Заморака, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "The Dreaming Stone, and the allocation of power that came from it, would be managed solely by Lord Rasmodel. The demon portal would have its power rationed."
↑ Journal entry of Сумрачные поножи, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "She was an afflicted soldier that he knew from long ago. She rambled in a voice that mimicked the droning of a bored aristocrat. Lord Rasmodel knew that voice well."
↑ Journal entry of Чёрный щит, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "Was this epidemic his fault? Was it here for him?"
↑ Journal entry of Дневник Расмоделя, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "The stone will be destroyed. I will see to it. I am done with its whispering and the madness it inspires in my once glorious fraternity."
↑ Journal entry of Чёрный щит, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "As the crystal shattered and the shards punctured his skin, he felt peace. The voices were silenced."
↑ Journal entry of Титан Чёрных рыцарей, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "Milliburn Rasmodel, twenty-fifth Lord of Rasmodel, took his retirment."
↑ Journal entry of Гнев титана, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "When the Dreaming Stone shattered, they all took him. He was their spoils."