Styne (family)

The Styne family crest.

Well, you got to be in it to win it, boys. You see, chaos breeds fear. Fear breeds panic, and panic breeds desperation, and there's always profit to be made from desperation. You make a big enough mess, has to get cleaned up. And we've been in the fix-it business for 1,000 years, and business has never been better. – Eldon Styne, 10.21 Dark Dynasty

• Monroe Styne - Family patriarch, father of Jacob and Eldon.
• Jacob Styne - Son of Monroe, brother to Eldon.
• Eldon Styne - Son of Monroe, brother to Jacob.
• Cyrus Styne - Youngest Son of Monroe, brother to Jacob and Eldon.
• Eli Styne - Nephew of Monroe, cousin to Jacob and Eldon.

The Stynes were one of Europe's oldest families, known then as Frankenstein. They were forced to change their family name out of necessity and go underground after family acquaintance, Mary Shelley, spent a few nights in castle Frankenstein and stumbled upon their secrets, and wrote the novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, however no one believed it to be a true account and thought it was fiction.

The Styne family believe that through chaos and desperation, there is always profit to be made in the cleanup. Through the use of the Book of the Damned the Styne family spent centuries using spells to create diseases such as the Black Death, starting the Hundred Years' War, destabilizing markets and recessions. For the last hundred years, the Styne family has been without the Book of the Damned, though it has not diminished their influence in world events, as the family helped the Nazis rise to power, the Arab Spring and even the attacks of 9/11 without it. Claiming the Book of the Damned only helps facilitate, and the true source of the family's power comes from their intelligence and will.

However the family specialty was in bioengineering and surgical enhancement. Each member of the Stynes has had some form of enhancement done to their bodies, making them more durable as was seen when Jacob Styne was able to take five shots to the chest and keep attacking Sam, and Eldon Styne being able to rip off his own arm and not succumb to the blood loss.

Trivia

• A clue to the Styne's true identity as the House Frankenstein can be spotted in the family crest, first seen in 10.18 Book of the Damned which bares a striking resemblance to the Frankenstein family crest seen in Young Frankenstein.