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It turned out Grandfather Peter had Dhampir blood in his ancestry.
[five generations back through his father, Jonas.

It’s source is Ronda. A village girl who was taken and later returned but Changed and pregnant. Her whole family relocated and moved to an area where they weren’t known.
Ronda died soon after giving birth but her daughter Dyllis survived and was raised human. She was ‘encouraged’ to keep what she was to herself and treated as the family shame. She ran off with a gypsy who wasn’t afraid of her. She had several children with him which added strength to the clan. (Lara’s incidentally)

One of these children Donata, caught the attention of Martin, a rich townsmen and married him. All of her siblings and herself are psi talented thanks to her Dhampir
mother.
Donata was a fine dancer and a great beauty. She was also quite adept at ‘fortune telling’ and reading the weather. She keeps her husband so besotted he never tires of her.
She gives him 3 kids. - 2 sons and a daughter, Selene. Her sibs were only mild psis but Selene was quite powerful. Her elder brothers Cecil and Donald take over for her father but Selene falls for and marries a psi null trader.

She and her trader clan husband Alric, (Trentweaver, a rival of Kenross) have 4 kids who are pretty talented. Her kids join their father’s family business and they are raised trader tough.

2 of her kids Loren (a boy) and Christina are kidnapped, by vampires it is thought and their parents hire hunter D. Loren and Christina are recovered but have no memory of what happened to them and the vampire D found them with was easily killed. It’s hard to believe a turned vampire like that could have held psis like Loren and Christina… even if they were untrained. It is an anomaly but the 2 are returned safely so no one worries over it.

Loren and Christina have also developed powerful blocks on their psi abilities. They don’t have access to them anymore and can’t remember what it was like to use them… though both are unusually insightful and read people easily still.

Later, Loren’s twin Paul is supposedly lost in a boating accident, yet Loren swears he’s still alive. Loren’s family thinks Loren is just having trouble dealing with the tragedy since he can’t use his power. There has always been a link between Loren and Paul though and it was Paul who helped the Hunters track down Loren and Christina. Loren can’t leave it alone and can’t settle though and after his youngest child Aylanna turned 16 he left to hunt for Paul properly. He’s searched for him on and off over the years but this time he’s serious. He kept in touch with his family through his search but 5 years later, just after a letter had arrived saying he was finally close to locating Paul he completely disappears.

It isn’t until much later that it’s discovered all 3 were taken by the Laiaise line ruled by the 300 year old + madwoman, Margo. It had not been intended that Christina return but the hunter her family hired, D, was thorough and powerful. It is from the Trentweaver Merchant clan that Iris, Vernon, Alicia and eventually Bobbie are descended.

Christina is also pregnant. She has a son, baby Jonas. He has psi potential but it’s like he’s been sealed. Since no one knows who his father is he takes on the name of his ancestor family of Kent. His mother isn’t thrilled but he is adamant. All her siblings and children, except for Jonas take the name of Trentweaver trading clan and grow up on the road.

Christina marries inspite of being an unwed mother to rebel, runaway Ruebin from the rival Kenross trader clan when Jonas was five. Step father and son have a rocky relationship though they try to keep peace in that house for Christina’s sake. In Jonas eyes the ‘Rube’ (slang for a hayseed or country cousin) is a traitor and he doesn’t know what his mother was thinking when she decided to marry him.

Jonas met preacher’s daughter Shirley on and off for several years and finally offered for her when she was 17 and he 20. He settled with her and became his grandfather’s contact/agent in the village.

He and his son have diluted blood but some traces of enhanced strength and reflexes when adrenaline is pumping. Kicks them into ‘high gear’.
He kept in contact with his trader family and relations between their gypsy and townsman roots are congenial as well. They don't know that they have Dhampir blood.]