Difference between revisions of "House Maernos"

From OakthorneWiki
Jump to navigationJump to search
 
(5 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 10: Line 10:
 
|membership=1
 
|membership=1
 
|faith=Selûne (and others)
 
|faith=Selûne (and others)
|descriptors=xxx
+
|descriptors=None
|classes=xxx
+
|classes=None
 
|alignments=LG
 
|alignments=LG
|ranks=• '''Favored:''' ''Rank 1''. You are a favored member of the House. If you are a scion of the House, you have pleased the patriarch sufficiently to gain his notice. If you are an agent or retainer of the House, your efforts to aid the House have gone well-noted.<br>
+
|ranks=None
• '''Lynchpin:''' ''Rank 3''. You are given a position of some responsibility in the House's operations. If you are a scion of the House, the patriarch considers you one of the favored scions of the House, and consults with you on matters of House importance. If you are an agent or retainer, your contributions and skills in service of the House have won you a position of no small regard and respect in the patriarch's eyes - although that may earn you the jealousy of his blood kin who are less favored than you.<br>
+
|trade=banking, moneylending, financial administration of temples
• '''Matriarch/Patriarch:''' ''Rank 10''. You are the acknowledged and legal head of the household.
 
|trade=XXX
 
 
|holdings=XXX
 
|holdings=XXX
 
|ethnicity=Illuskan
 
|ethnicity=Illuskan
|founded=1248 DR
+
|founded=1248 DR; Extinct 1372 DR
 
}}
 
}}
 +
==History==
 +
The Maernos (MAY-er-noz) family was a human noble family in Waterdeep. It concerned itself with financial activities such as banking and moneylending. Its coat of arms consisted of a pair of hands with green sleeves and three silver spear heads on a blue field.
  
==History==
+
Its final patriarch was Lord Ultas Maernos, a mercenary and notable fighter whose wife and children all died in an Amnian plague in 1345 DR. He found solace in faith after this, and without anyone to pass his holdings on to, he decided to turn his family villa into a temple to non-human deities, redressing what he saw as a lack in Waterdeep's religious offerings to its people.
x
 
==Members of the Family==
 
* '''Ultas "Raiser-of-Priests" Maernos:''' ''Patriarch (Rank 10) • 62 years''. While few remember it, Lord Ultas was a mercenary in his youth and he committed a number of atrocities against some southern villages in the quest to bolster his family's finances. Lord Ultas later abandoned that life for his waiting lordship in Waterdeep, but he spent years plagued by waking guilt and nightmares about his past actions. After the untimely deaths of his wife and children in the Year of the Saddle (1345 DR) due to a plague in Amn, Lord Ultas became a recluse, seeing few beyond his servants for four years. Only the ministrations and attention of Naneatha Suaril, the High Priestess of Selûne, brought him out of his grief. With her friendship, Ultas found forgiveness in religion, and soon became a generous patron and devout follower for many of the city's temples (though his heart truly belongs to Selune). Lord Ultas Maernos, while no longer a recluse, has resisted all attempts to remarry and restart his family line.
 
  
==Holdings==
+
When he died in 1372, the Maernos family passed out of the rolls of nobility, and the Maernos villa became the [[Holyhands House]], notable for its lion statues adorning the walls around it.
x
 
==Rumors About House Maernos==
 
x
 
==Faction==
 
x
 
===Overview===
 
x
 
===Goals and Philosophy===
 
x
 
===Activities===
 
x
 
  
Quests undertaken by agents of House Maernos might include the following:
+
==Notable Ancestors==
* x
+
* '''Ultas "Raiser-of-Priests" Maernos:''' ''Last Patriarch • 1292 - 1372''. While few remember it, Lord Ultas was a mercenary in his youth and he committed a number of atrocities against some southern villages in the quest to bolster his family's finances. Lord Ultas later abandoned that life for his waiting lordship in Waterdeep, but he spent years plagued by waking guilt and nightmares about his past actions. After the untimely deaths of his wife and children in the Year of the Saddle (1345 DR) due to a plague in Amn, Lord Ultas became a recluse, seeing few beyond his servants for four years. Only the ministrations and attention of Naneatha Suaril, the High Priestess of Selûne, brought him out of his grief. With her friendship, Ultas found forgiveness in religion, and soon became a generous patron and devout follower for many of the city's temples (though his heart truly belongs to Selune). Lord Ultas Maernos, while no longer a recluse, has resisted all attempts to remarry and restart his family line.
===Perks===
 
Scions and agents of House Maernos in good standing might receive the following benefits:
 
* '''xxx:''' ''Rank xxx''. x
 

Latest revision as of 02:25, 1 December 2019

House Maernos
Maernos.png
Personages
Patriarch: Ultas "Raiser-of-Priests" Maernos
Consort: None
Heir: None
Membership (Nobles): 1
Predominant Faith: Selûne (and others)
Faction Details
Common Descriptors: None
Primary Classes: None
Alignments: LG
Faction Ranks
None
Interests
Trade & Interests: banking, moneylending, financial administration of temples
Holdings: XXX
History
Ethnicity: Illuskan
Founded: 1248 DR; Extinct 1372 DR

History

The Maernos (MAY-er-noz) family was a human noble family in Waterdeep. It concerned itself with financial activities such as banking and moneylending. Its coat of arms consisted of a pair of hands with green sleeves and three silver spear heads on a blue field.

Its final patriarch was Lord Ultas Maernos, a mercenary and notable fighter whose wife and children all died in an Amnian plague in 1345 DR. He found solace in faith after this, and without anyone to pass his holdings on to, he decided to turn his family villa into a temple to non-human deities, redressing what he saw as a lack in Waterdeep's religious offerings to its people.

When he died in 1372, the Maernos family passed out of the rolls of nobility, and the Maernos villa became the Holyhands House, notable for its lion statues adorning the walls around it.

Notable Ancestors

  • Ultas "Raiser-of-Priests" Maernos: Last Patriarch • 1292 - 1372. While few remember it, Lord Ultas was a mercenary in his youth and he committed a number of atrocities against some southern villages in the quest to bolster his family's finances. Lord Ultas later abandoned that life for his waiting lordship in Waterdeep, but he spent years plagued by waking guilt and nightmares about his past actions. After the untimely deaths of his wife and children in the Year of the Saddle (1345 DR) due to a plague in Amn, Lord Ultas became a recluse, seeing few beyond his servants for four years. Only the ministrations and attention of Naneatha Suaril, the High Priestess of Selûne, brought him out of his grief. With her friendship, Ultas found forgiveness in religion, and soon became a generous patron and devout follower for many of the city's temples (though his heart truly belongs to Selune). Lord Ultas Maernos, while no longer a recluse, has resisted all attempts to remarry and restart his family line.