In 1805 Gore Plantation was established by Louis Gore a few miles west of New Orleans. He developed a large empire of sugarcane built on the backs of hundreds of slaves. When slavery ended, Louis’s son Axel ordered his slaves slaughtered rather than let them go free. The Gore family turned to the dark arts and supernatural to provide the foundation of their workforce. The souls of the slain slaves were bound as Gore Wights. Uneasy truces were made with other groups; ghouls, vampires, and trolls. Several years later, when the Matranga crime family was established in New Orleans, there was a tenuous alliance between the two groups.

Through prohibition and efforts of the police, the Matranga family was largely destroyed. In 1925 the leader of the family gifted his underage daughter, Barbara Matranga, to Axel’s son, the current planter William Gore, in a dark deal for access to undead henchmen. Despite the uncomfortable beginning of their relationship, Barbara became William’s most trusted advisor, and they eventually fell in love. Today, their daughter, Charlotte Gore Matranga (Lady Charlotte), runs the now fully integrated dark magic sugarcane empire and the New Orleans crime family.