RPG Match – connecting TTRPG players @RpgMatch@TheEdVerse do you have a homegame list of 15th century Waterdhavian nobles you can share? #realmslore #waterdeep
Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
I’ve been looking for the “big” list this last week, but…[that] …may take months.— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 1, 2021
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However, I have a much shorter list of the young rapscallions and poseurs who’re giving the Deep trouble circa 1497-99 DR.
Here we go:
DEPLOYABLE YOUNG NOBLES OF THE DEEP IN THE 1490S DR
These are all young ‘players’ among the nobles; restless ‘doers’ who.. 2)
…habitually step outside their family compounds and the ranks of fellow nobility to truck with merchants, adventurers, and shady sorts. They are inquisitive, interested in new things and innovations and “what’s different,” and are apt to get mixed up in…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 1, 2021
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…intrigues that go beyond who gets to dance with whom at the next revel, and who was most clever in their cutting rudeness to someone else at the last feast.
So here we have: 4)
Three roisterers: a prank-player (Tanther Urmbrusk), a deadly “don’t get in my way, I slay” sort (Srandor Sultlue), and a merry, jovial drunkard (Rarantorn Argent)
A nasty “I get more than even” investor and manipulator (Anthaud Agundar)#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 1, 2021
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An ambitious, “I want influence and a leading society reputation” social climber (Sameira Kothont)
A handsome intriguer, who’s both a con man and in cahoots with the Xanathar (Harlent Gauntyl) 6)
A rival intriguer who works with monsters in Skullport, adventurers, and shady merchants/smugglers (Vrantavvar Ruldegost)#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 1, 2021
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And…
A high-society nice young airhead who’s really a skilled actress playing that role, and behind closed doors is an accomplished, capable envoy (Dzarlantra Tesper) A1)
Anthaud Agundar (NE hm Rog11): a dark-haired, dark-blue-eyed, short, slender, quiet man of tight lips and usually stone-faced-blank expression, who is ruled by greed tempered with patience. In life, he must get ever richer, …#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 1, 2021
A2)
…but can take short-term losses and small gambles if he has to—so long as someone else is to blame, in his mind, and can be made to pay (often with their life, but he’ll settle for any city real estate they own, or other… A3)
…worldly goods if he must; if they have nothing, he’ll try to have them kidnapped and sold to slavers; he knows some covert “takers” in Scornubel). Anthaud’s a superb actor who can convincingly feign fear, confusion, naivety, …#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 1, 2021
A4)
…and drunkenness—but if he’s awake, he’s hawk-alert and calculating, always coldly calculating. He tries to avoid personal combat, preferring to let hired swords do his dirty work or to lure pursuers into deadly traps he’s… A5)
…arranged. He carries a small personal arsenal of family-made weapons that don’t look like weapons, many of them poisoned, and is an energetic investor and manipulator, who calls on his mentor, his uncle Hamnaer, to help him…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 1, 2021
A6)
…get more than even against anyone. A nasty man. And details of the others will follow, as I squeeze them in around everything else (Andrew Valkauskas and I are bringing to life an entire fantasy CITY, AthCliath, for his #FateOfTheNorns game, and I think it really IS alive by now!)— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 1, 2021