House Urmbrusk

House Urmbrusk

Personages

Matriarch: Lestra Urbmbrusk Consort: Haemmor Urmbrusk Heir: Imshrel Urmbrusk (secondborn son) Membership (Nobles): 6 Predominant Faith: None

Faction Details

Common Descriptors: Adventurous, cunning, willful Primary Classes: Fighter, rogue, bard Alignments: LN, N, NE

Faction 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. • 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. • Matriarch/Patriarch: Rank 10. You are the acknowledged and legal head of the household.

Interests

Trade & Interests: Landowning, money-lending Holdings: Waterdeep

History

Ethnicity: Illuskan Founded: 1254 DR Previous Eras: 1354 DR

(HoU pg. 18) Lord Quarren Urmbrusk (HoU pg. 18) Lord Rutherford Urmbrusk (HoU pg. 18) Lady Lestra Urmbrusk (HoU pg. 18-19) (Note: As the adventure leaves the fates of the Urmbrusk open, these 3 nobles might be dead or exiled) Llarwell, half-elf servant of House Urmbrusk (HoU pg. 19)

Members of the Family

• Lady Lestra Umbrusk: Matriarch (Rank 10) • 45 years. Ten years ago or so, Lestra's brother Quarren disappeared into Undermountain. A few years later, his seventeen year old son, Rutherford, did likewise, leaving her as the head of house. A few years ago, Lestra's oldest son, Bheron, also disappeared into Undermountain, intent on finding his uncle and cousin. Now, she has forbidden any of her family from venturing into the darkness beneath Waterdeep, and they say that she still has nightmares about its denizens coming for her and the rest of her kin. Her first husband Thonner could not handle both the loss of his son and Lestra's grief, and left her and the House entirely. Other than this bit of tragedy, Lestra is quite the social figure, and a major proponent of the Game's resurrection among the social set.
• Haemmor Umbrusk: Consort (Rank 6) • 32 years. Lestra's handsome consort is her most recent husband, and seems to be a great comfort to her. Many of her peers sardonically congratulate her on her taste in lovely younger men, but the bond the two of them share certainly seems genuine.
• Imshrel Umbrusk: Heir, matriarch's secondborn son (Rank 0) • 16 years. Imshrel remembers. He remembers his uncle and his cousin and his older brother Thonner. They are all gone, and though he would never say so to his mother, he is sure he can find them, down in the dark. He is an avid student of the Sorlaer School of fencing, and prone to wandering the night streets of Waterdeep with a small clique of his fellow bravos.
• Irraunk Umbrusk: Matriarch's cousin (Rank 9) • 46 years. Though he has retired from tending to the household business, Irraunk has another calling: he is the Lord Chamberlain at the Palace of the Lords.

• Irraunk Urmbrusk: Lord Chamberlain of Piergeiron's Palace

Retainers

• Llarwell: xxx (Rank x) • x years. Xxx

Holdings

• Resources Limit: If necessary, House Urmbrusk could probably generate about 33,000 gp in liquid coin and valuables within a month.

Northvault

Street of the Singing Dolphin, North Ward

Even those who know that the Urmbrusks are landowners and moneylenders can't help but gawk the first time they see Northvault. Its wall is a six foot tall marble structure, with another four feet of wrought iron bars that end in speartips along the top edge. It is made up of four buildings, all of which are also marble, several of which feature elaborate statuary (some of it actually gilded in gold and mithril). The house seal on the double front doors of the Northvault itself are solid silver, with gemstone accents; would-be thieves are cautioned that the footmen standing there are not to guard it, but to instead warn passersby that touching it may trigger magical safeguards.

• Northvault: 2s
• Heirsroost: 3s
• Tenants' Hall: 2s
• xxx: 2s servants

Marblehearth Villa (Rental Villa)

The Cliffride, Castle Ward

• Marblehearth Villa, on the Cliffride

Rumors About House Urmbrusk

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Quests undertaken by agents of House Urmbrusk might include the following:

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Perks

Scions and agents of House Urmbrusk in good standing might receive the following benefits:

• xxx: Rank xxx. x