The Robinonds are a loosely connected family residing primarily in Louisiana. Nuclear and immediate extended families are scattered across the state, maintaining friendly relations with each other without answering to each other. Though there is no official head of the family, there is usually one person recognized as the most powerful member of the family.

Through intermarriage, the family has acquired several influential relatives, including family patriarchs and matriarchs, family heirs, and the occasional politician. Few of these, however, bear the Robinond surname, and only a few more consider themselves full members of the family nonetheless. Their collective fortune, split up as it is, is not inconsiderable, but the family often avoids situations requiring a firm stand, leading to their political influence being negligible.

The Robinonds avoid disownments wherever possible, reserving it for aberrations such as marrying someone not a pureblood or betraying the family, what both constitute being determined by the closest relatives the family member in question has. Though the smile-and-nod policy on matters not considered dire often makes it hard to tell, the majority of them are fairly conservative.

Notable Family Members

Campbell Robinond: From a central Louisiana division, Campbell is currently considered the most influential member of the family.

Martin Robinond: Campbell's son and heir, though whether or not he'll prove his father's successor in all matters is still unclear.

Eileen Victoria Angelique Robinond Carey St. Martin: The stunningly beautiful daughter of a northern Louisiana division of the family, Eileen was married off at seventeen to Edwardius Carey, a recently widowed, fifty-seven-year-old Georgian. Six months after his murder two days before their twentieth anniversary, Eileen married Charlestonian Alban St. Martin. After his death sixteen years later, Eileen became matriarch of the St. Martins and is generally assumed to be quite out of her mind, not least because of her habit of chatting with her dead husbands and daughter.

Alasdair Carey: Son of Eileen and Edwardius, believed to have his mother on a short leash when it comes to running the St. Martins. Unusually loyal, in light of his position, to the Robinonds, he is the patriarch of the Savannah Careys.


Mary Elizabeth St. Martin Wright: Daughter of Eileen and Alban, she was disowned at seventeen for running off with a "nobody" she'd met at Sonora. She died in the physical sense seventeen years later and was posthumously taken back in.

Lila Clarisse Robinond Raines: From a division relatively closely related to Eileen's, Lila was married off to Illinois new-money patriarch Charles Raines at twenty-three to finalize an alliance between him and her third cousin, Alasdair Carey. When she was caught having an affair with Charles' Muggleborn gardener, Nick O'Treman, by her nosy sister-in-law India, it set off a scandal and lead to still-existing rumors about the legitimacy, not to mention blood, of her daughter, Catherine. She was saved from disownment by the unfortunate fact that disowning her would be acknowledging the rumors to be true.

Catherine Elizabeth Raines: Daughter of Lila and, at least legally, Charles. In fact, no one - except perhaps Lila - knows if her father is her father or if she was fathered by the Muggleborn gardener. She was named for two great-grandmothers, Katherine Raines and Elisabeth Robinond, and named the Raines heiress at eleven thanks to her mother's refusal to have another child. She is currently a fourth-year Crotalus at Sonora Academy.