House Des Loches

House Des Loches was one of the major vampire houses present in the world into the 21st Century. The Dynasty was widely considered to be one of the cadet branches of the House of Savoy, due to extensive intermixing between the two families. As well, House Des Loches was widely considered to be the first bona fide Franco-Hellenic dynasty, being born almost wholly within Greece, without initial direct ties back to established French nobility.

Born out of the Latin Empire, the family is traced back to the French crusader Girard de Loches, who was granted nobility due to his service to Godfrey de Savoie. His descendants were initially granted lands within Attica, before being gifted the whole Duchy of Athens after the Savoyards became the Emperors of the Latin Empire. The overt power of the Des Loches began to wane with the decline of the Latin Empire. However, they would be brought once more into power with the ascension of one of their scions, Élysabeth d'Athènes, as the appointed successor of the vampire empress Heilong Yu. Lys and her fledglings would constitute the last major extent representatives of the House Des Loches, as the premier dynasty of Vampires in the 21st century.