@TheEdVerse We know Caladorn (Human) was wooing Lucia Thione(-Hhune) and that didnt work out, and she was human while Victoro, his half-elven. soooo… who is Victoro Cassalanter's mother?
— DJ Tigon (@djtigon) May 8, 2021
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… 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— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 9, 2021
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…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… 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— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 9, 2021
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…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…
…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— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 9, 2021
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…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… 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— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 9, 2021
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…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…
…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— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 9, 2021
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…within the Silver Marches (between dwarves and everyone else). Her life beyond that, and her fate, are currently unknown.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 9, 2021
