Here on the estate Erica was freed. Given a small pouch of gold and a horse. It was so long ago since she was bought and brought to the estate. She stood there to wonder at the next person they would bring to help conduct the mad experiments. Erica was a slave who had witnessed all of there experiments. She was never taught to read or write. She didn't care about her owners. She just did as was told and grateful the experiments were never tested on her. Erica shook her head and mounted the horse. As she rode away to her fate she was glad to be free. The family secrete faded from her memory as the elixir she drank did its job to replace her past with a happy one. The family that sought perfection.
However each family member had there own idea of what that perfection was. One member thought it was wings, the next reptiles, it was a collage of different experiments on different species. So the actual progression of the path to perfection was a step forward but never in the same direction. The one flaw this created was during the transformation the family member could never step outside for fear of mas ignorance. One family member tried this early in the family history only to be stoned to death by a superstitious mob. There was only one solution, slaves. Serfs could leave and were therefore undesirable not to mention costly. Magic was good but not very intuitive. The spell would do one thing very well but to create the perfect spell to sweep only when needed was difficult and no matter the wording there arose a situation that the spell either ignored or created bigger problem by trying to solve the original one. There fore slaves were a necessity of the family. They had no interest in harming them or subjugating them to a weird fetish. They just needed to obey and clean. After forty or fifty years they would be freed with a small pouch of gold.