Note: The question submitted was "What can you tell me about the Baskervilles?"
Traitors, the lot of them, may they all rot into the bloody Abyss where they had sprung, the foul-skinned, chicken-livered scum–!
Ahem, pardon my tongue. Many apologies.
[Sighs]
Long ago, there was… a history between the Nightray and the Baskerville Houses. According to my father, our ancestor Duke Raymond Nightray had close ties to the head of the Baskerville House, as enigmatic as they are, and the royalty believed that those red-cloaked men were key to the stability of the nation. The Baskervilles, as far as we can assemble from the lost Pre-Tragedy records, held ancient superstitious rituals to maintain stability of the Abyss (though the exact details remained obscured even today).
There were tales of wicked, monstrous things: incest and human sacrifice and miscegenation with those beastly Chains (I shudder to contemplate even a fraction of these rumours to be true.)
It was our misfortune to remain associated with that fallen house after the Tragedy, because during that by-gone era, our House served as the King's left hand, monitoring their crooked ways from getting out of hand.
Yet we were the first to fall after the royal family was assassinated by those red savages, along with the entirety of Sablier, before the whole city fell into darkness… and were further shamed when Jack Vessalius took out family back in pity and burdened us with that dysfunctional gate to the Abyss….
If I could go back in time, if I could do one thing, I wish I could have stayed the hand of those Baskervilles before they ruined my family, my nation and slayed the last High King.
I would personally tear that Glen Baskerville apart, limb from limb.