Early members of House Zakone were Soviet-era scientists and criminal masterminds. (Credit: Creative Commons)

The last of four profiles of the vampire houses that rule the City of Eternals.

House Zakone has its origins in the extraordinarily creative and cutthroat 18th-century Russian criminal underworld, but developed a particular aptitude for technology that it now carries through to the present day. Members of House Zakone have been involved in everything from the first transatlantic wireless transmissions to the development of rocketry.

Celeste Zakone, born 1887, was an early pioneer in the Soviet Union’s fledgling rocket propulsion research program until she was turned in 1933 and fled Stalin’s Russia. Celeste Z not only believes in the power of technology to overcome the difficulties of Vampire life, she has believed since the turn of the 20th century that with the right technology, Vampires could leave this planet entirely and begin again.

The members of House Zakone have taken full advantage of the boundless energy and lifelong path of learning available to Vampires, and as a result they produce technology that far surpasses what human researchers have been able to accomplish. For the most part, the members of the House live online, and while their outward appearance suggests that they do nothing but cruise the web from the various cyber cafes they own, they in fact live rich and varied lives through their virtual connection to the outside world.

House Zakone makes its headquarters in the Half Moon Cyber Cafe.