Leo and his remaining kin went to ground, rightly fearing the vengeance of the vampire that now ruled the realm. The only Dilisnyas to escape Castle Ravenloft were Leo, Lovinia Wachter, Reinhold's wife Nadia Yakimov and her children. Unfortunately, Strahd, rather than expiring peaceably, rose up as one of the undead and routed the Leo's forces. Leo was far from unpleased with the result. And the couple to be married, Sergei von Zarovich and his bride Tatyana Federovna, were already dead, Strahd having murdered his brother Sergi and Tanyana having escaped Strahd by throwing herself from the castle wall. Count Strahd von Zarovich appeared to be fatally wounded. It would claim his biological father Gunther, his brother Reinhold, his sister Gertrude, her husband Ivan Buchvold, together their three children, and his sister Oleka, together with three of her four children. The massacre turned out to be somewhat wider than had been intended initially. The Wedding of Sergei von Zarovich was the moment when Leo struck. Leo would then succeed Reinhold as Count of Barovia. And after a year or two, Count Reinhold would appear to die of his stomach illness, which was in fact a result of poisoning by his brother. His ailing brother Reinhold would be installed as Count of Barovia. He plotted to make himself the ruler of Prime Material Barovia. For his part, Leo plotted not merely to punish them. Pidlwik died in 349 BC, the zon Zaroviches unpunished for their interference. And before she could be avenged sufficiently by the assassinations of the War of Silver Knives, Count Barov von Zarovich imposed in a peace upon the warring families. Pidlwik's mother Izabela Dilisnya had been murdered in 314 BC by either the Katsky family or the Petrovna family. Leo inherited from his stepfather a hatred of the von Zaroviches. He was the younger brother of Reinhold Dilisnya, Gertrude Dilisnya and Oleka Dilisnya, the grandson of Izabela Dilisnya, and the uncle of at least nine including Lovina Wachter. He was the recognised son of Pidlwik Dilisnya, but was in fact fathered by Gunther Cosco. Leo Dilisnya was born to Duchess Dorfniya Dilisnya in Prime Material Barovia in 320 BC. However, it was not until the 4th Edition module Fair Barovia that Leo Dilisnya was introduced as the villain of a module. Gazetteer I also introduced Leo Dilisnya's continued existence as a Dread Possibility. However, 3rd Edition products canonized Leo Dilisnya's treachery and some other events if I, Strahd as actually happening to some degree. The above contradiction could have been explained by the biased and self-serving nature of Strahd's autobiography. Leo Dilisnya or his assassins are not mentioned. However, this account was contradicted by the 2nd Edition module From the Shadows, where the player characters travel back in time to the day of the wedding. In the book, Strahd blames much of the murder at the Wedding of Sergei von Zarovich on Leo Dilisnya and his fellow Ba'al Verzi. However, the majority of this text is Strahd's in-character biased and perhaps outright fabricated recollection of his past. The Ravenloft novel I, Strahd, The Memoirs of a Vampire established a truly villainous character for Lord Leo. According to the information presented in the family trees, learning this fact only after his father's death motivates him to move away from his Dilisnya heritage. Leo Dilisnya is revealed to be the illegitimate child of Duchess Dorfinya, a Dilisnya by marriage not by blood, and Gunther Cosco, but Dorfinya nonetheless raises him as her husband, Pidlwik Dilisnya's son. Leo Dilisnya was first introduced in the bloodline family trees of the Dilisnyas and Boritsis in the Realm of Terror ("Black Box") boxed set, where he is shown to have sired the family line that eventually produced Camille Dilisnya, whom would marry Klaus Boritsi and produce all of the listed Boristi family.
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