The Gypsies
“Bury me standing, For I have been on my knees my entire life”
Background
Known as The Romani People, or by greater Europe as The Gypsies for their mistaken assumption of origin; are a travelling people with origins in India lost to the annals of history, now carried only by song and language. The Romani people now form a vast Diaspora covering nearly every country in the world; they have lived as warriors, they have lived as slaves, metal workers and horse breakers, the excluded and feared; their story is a long one erased by the world and carried only by them.
It was along the Mersey river, in the hungry scrap yards of Liverpool; That the modern day Gypsy tribe known as the Gallaghers made camp, with them they brought the Bellinghams, a family of metal workers and steel benders, along with an assortment of the ill reputed. Arrests, Raids, and beatings from the local constabulary forced the vagrants on to new pastures. Heading south, it was on the outskirts of Birmingham they would meet another band of Romani known as the Joyces, along with a family of dog thieves known as the Baxters.
Together they exploited the greater part of England and unified themselves as one band, and one caravan. They were responsible for a countless number of scams, even more thieveries, and a handful of assassinations and killings. These killings had sown the seeds for a blood feud with the rival gypsy caravan led by a family of confidence artists known as the Kitts. This brutal war as it was, would last years and bring an end to no small number of families involved. By its end, the Kitts lay defeated, scattered, and defiled. As the Gallaghers, Joyces, Baxters and Bellinghams counted their dead. Left with the choice of further bloodshed, or life in a dungeon; They found their way to a new land of grand pastures and endless travels.