The Hellstroms are liars, but evil may be afoot. Go to Romania with suspicion.
From Create Your Own Story
Your father, while vindictive and possibly insane, was also a very good judge of character. If he warned you to distrust the Hellstroms than the matter is settled. However considering their history with black magic you can't ignore a clear and present danger if they have gotten themselves in over their heads or if their intentions are indeed black. You quickly pack but add double the weapons you would normally bring on such a mission. You expect trouble.
You take a ship most of the way, going around Spain to the Straight of Gibraltar. You pass through the Mediterranean and port in Piraeus, Greece. From there it is a series of coach and train rides through the Caucuses to the dark mountains of Romania. The journey is long and uncomfortable as you peer out of your carriage window through the twisted branches of the old trees and see the sharp ugly parapets of Castle Von Hellstrom. The castle seems carved in places out of the hideous mountain itself, battered and scarred by a life of siege and war. Formerly the Fortress of the Knights of the Bloody Herald, a caste of vampyre warriors the Hellstroms in their quest for power destroyed the monsters and took the castle for their own. Now, the Hellstrom's reduced to only a few estranged families after the Crusades, have let the castle fall into disrepair and it shows the damage, a symbols of the once great and terrible family.
The carriage rattles the rest of the way up the steep mountain cliffs, a dangerous end to the journey, before rolling into the main entrance. You disembark, feeling uneasy as you look at the bleak fortress. Nothing good has happened here in it's entire history.
The door creaks open and a strict looking servant gestures for you to enter. You do, finding the entrance hall as cold and uncomfortable as the courtyard outside. You also notice that no one besides the servant has been sent to greet you. Figures.
