The Claynes

The Claynes are a fictional couple in a role playing game. They were the biological parents of Mathew Clayne.

Importance
The Claynes were important people. With the American continent broken down into chaos due to the aftermath of the Cold War, they helped rebuild after the bombings. The young couple, Johnathan Clayne and Anastasia Clayne took over from the aging Walther Clayne who with his wife, Cynthia Clayne, started the Clayne Legacy.

The Claynes were in no way famous as such, and not by a long shot people who were recognized on the street, but they were part of the high society of Boston, being the capital city of the RNA. They ran a successful business and had everything they could ever want, a family estate, further north, a summer retreat further south where the climate get's warmer, a racing/luxury yacht, a penthouse apartment in Boston and a private jet.

They were somewhat mysterious people, and the few people who knew them could have sworn that they had bodyguards in disguises, following them around most of the time. Both were very private, and kept to themselves in their spare time, and seemingly did a lot to stay below the radar.

Background
Johnathan Clayne was the son of the famous Walther Clayne and Cynthia Clayne. He married Anastasia, a talented business woman with eastern european heritage (refugees from the Cold War bombings). They took over Walther's company when Walther passed away, and carried it on to further glory. They stopped taking too much interest in the company a few years after taking it over however, and left it in the caring hands of a trusted CEO, and more or less went into early retirement, sitting simply as board members in the company. They were often away on travels for months, and returned having little time for their child.

They died when they were gunned down by an armed robber in the streets. The same fugitive was seconds later killed by a random dog that ripped his throat out. Mathew Clayne claims to have been saved by the dog, and was found in the rain, kneeling by his dead parents, covered in the robbers blood, with the pale dead murderer lying behind him.