1) The woman who bore Victoro Casslanter went by the name “Lady Mask,” when in Waterdhavian clubs in the 1370s DR, where she fascinated Caladorn. She was a moon elf sorceress who never had any intention of marrying anyone or becoming… #Realmslore
2) …part of the Deep’s nobility or even open, polite society. She kept to human form (thin, lithe, graceful, mid-calf-length glossy black hair, very large bright blue eyes customarily surrounded by black makeup) when consorting… #Realmslore
3) …with Caladorn, and used the name “Shalant Marndraeve.” (“Shalantra Marndrevven” in full.) She made her living under another human name and guise (as a plump, motherly blonde woman who looked about a decade older than… #Realmslore
4) …Shalant, and was known as “Ardraitha Toldren”), discreetly and covertly casting covert life-useful magics for those able to afford her fees (nobles and wealthy Waterdhavians and visitors to the city). Her real name was… #Realmslore
5) …Duskra Wyntervar, and her identity and all of her various guises were known to her “family;” she lived quietly in North Ward with three lifelong friends who were secretly Deep-resident song and steel dragons, and acted for… #Realmslore
6) …them as an envoy and factor (trading representative).
She willingly surrendered her infant son to Caladorn to be raised as his heir, and even (as “Ravendra Emrespur,” borrowing the surname of a long-defunct family who’d once… #Realmslore
7) …been minor Tethyrian gentry; this was something of an in-joke because various traveling actors and investors had in the past borrowed the Emrespur name for their own various false identities, so there are now Emrespurs… #Realmslore
8) …everywhere in Faerûn) married him in a private ceremony, months before Victoro’s birth, to make the boy legitimate.
Although she often visited Caladorn by night, and mothered her baby on such occasions (which is where he… #Realmslore
9) …learned the beginnings of Draconic and Elvish), she had almost nothing to do with the naming and raising of Victoro beyond that, something she was glad of in later years, when he turned to evil.
After Caladorn became Open Lord… #Realmslore
10) …of Waterdeep, Lady Mask quietly vanished from the city. It’s thought that she and her family relocated to Everlund, and all took new names and guises, to found new lives in the North working to strengthen alliances and ties… #Realmslore
11) …within the Silver Marches (between dwarves and everyone else). Her life beyond that, and her fate, are currently unknown. #Realmslore
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I have a 3 part question about House Roaringhorn in Waterdeep as of 1492 DR. Aside from Lord Zelraun, are there any other notable members of the House? What is the state of their interests and affairs? Who are their closest allies and enemies?
1) A lot of NDAs remain in force, I fear, as the Roaringhorns are busy, important folk with their ring-adorned fingers in a lot of pies.
So, aside from Lord Zelraun, notable Roaringhorns based in Waterdeep as of 1492 DR include: #Realmslore
2) Tassembra, a sometime adventurer and Lord Zelraun’s favourite daughter. She’s a free-spirited maverick with a high public profile, lots of lovers, and great personal wealth, all invested in urban properties up and down the… #Realmslore
1) As the soldiers charge, Wolf calmly triggers one of his rings. Blue-white lightning leaps from it to strike the foremost charging man, then plays all over that armour—ere bolts snap and snarl on to the other armours. #epicfantasy
2) Suddenly, the reek of scorched hair wrestles with the smell and sizzle of roasting bacon. One man, at the back, manages an “Aieee” before he falls on his face.
“NO looting,” Wolf snaps, as the King starts for the nearest… #epicfantasy
3) …body. “No time.”
The King turns and looks at Wolf, incredulity warring with cold scorn. “Did you just presume to give a command to your KING?”
“Well, wouldn’t THAT be a waste of time? No, Elvar, that was a firm suggestion.” #epicfantasy
1) “Ha ha. The PEOPLE.”
“Ah. No, Lord, but then, I’ve never been this high up in this wing before. The Palace is befittingly large.”
“How many staff are supposed to be up there?” the King asks Wolf. #epicfantasy
2) “No living quarters, so just duty staff, though no duty roster right now, thanks to the invasion and lack of ready pay, let alone supervision. Duty strength for the floors above us, one shift, is forty-seven.” #epicfantasy
3) “Real count? Or Palace Purse strength?”
“Real. I handle Security as well as the Treasury, Sire.”
“I’m aware. As are my coffers. You didn’t think I knew there are two counts, did you?” #epicfantasy
1) Then the King breaks off frowning to stare open-mouthed at the roofless passage, the heaped rubble of destruction—and then wildly all around. “Where’s Palonder?”
“On a mission,” Wolf says soothingly. #epicfantasy
2) The King frowns. “You’ve lost him, haven’t you? He’s lying dead under all that, isn’t he?”
“No, Elvar, he’s NOT—”
“He is! You ALMOST kill me, would have if not for the SELFLESS protective shielding of this lady courtier… #epicfantasy
3) …SACRIFICING herself to save my life, and you DO kill the bright young hope of the r—”
“Elvar, HUSH! We just UNAVOIDABLY made a great deal of noise, and soldiers of realms who’ve invaded us are still EVERYWHERE around us… #epicfantasy
1) Palonder nods and sets to work. The King’s stomach promptly growls. Loudly.
“Meals for us all, soonest,” Wolf says briskly, and the King closes his mouth on the demand he was going to make. And then peers all around. #epicfantasy
2) “I don’t remember this part of the Palace at ALL,” he says dubiously. “Why is that, Wolf?”
“You’re sober, Elvar. You never staggered in this direction, I recall, until revels were done and dawn was peeking through… #epicfantasy
3) …yon windows.”
“Oh, gods spew, MUST you wax poetic?”
“Courtier, Sire, remember?”
“I’m seldom given a chance to forget, these days.”
“That’s because we so attentively attend you.”
“Behold, my royal gratitude shineth.” #epicfantasy
1) This gets asked a lot, but here we go again. ;}
The answer is always: it depends. Here’s why: literally thousands of sentient beings in the Realms have a ‘wild talent’ for some aspect of magic, due to the world being a-crawl… #Realmslore
2) …with magic (wielders of the Art using it, drawing on the Weave), and everyone born into the world being exposed to flows of magic. Over time, growing numbers of sentient beings are born with the Gift (ability to wield the… #Realmslore
3) …Art). Most don’t know it, and are utterly untrained, and stay that way lifelong. Say, 1 in 9,000. A rarer few (1 in 12,000) may or may not manifest a ‘wild talent’ that lets them work magical effects without casting or… #Realmslore