House Cassalanter

House Cassalanter

Personages

Matriarch: Ammalia Cassalanter Consort: Victoro Cassalanter Heir: Osvaldo Cassalanter (firstborn son) Membership (Nobles): 21 Predominant Faith: Waukeen

Faction Details

Common Descriptors: Educated, courageous, shrewd Primary Classes: Fighter, wizard, bard, rogue, cleric (of Waukeen) Alignments: CG, NG, CN, N

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 2. 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 3. You are the acknowledged and legal head of the household.

Interests

Trade & Interests: Banking, moneylending, information gathering, rumor-mongering Holdings: Waterdeep

History

Ethnicity: Tethyrian Founded: 1248 DR Previous Eras: 1354 DR

The Cassalanters are one of the foremost noble families in Waterdeep, in terms of wealth, prestige, and power. Though one of the original families, they lingered in the middle of the pack until the rise of one of their own in xxx DR when one of the Masked Lords stepped into the role of Open Lord, unmasking in open court and revealing himself to be Caladorn Cassalanter, a cousin of no particular accounting. From that moment, the Cassalanter star began to rise, shining brightly.

Though the Cassalanters had difficulty during the Wailing Years just as anyone else did, the current matriarch Ammalia has utterly turned everything around. The Cassalanters are now richer and better thought-of than they've ever been, and several members of the House hold positions of authority in the city, including a guildmaster and a magistrate.

Members of the Family

• Ammalia Cassalanter: Matriarch (Rank 3) • 48 years. A well-mannered, well-read, well-traveled and exceptionally shrewd wizard. She is known for driving a hard bargain, and her hobby is lepidopterology, and keeps a butterfly garden.
• Victoro Cassalanter: Consort (Rank 2) • 55 years. Devilishly handsome half-elf fond of coin and power. He is well-schooled, suave, slow to anger, and blessed with good health, long life, and an immunity to disease. He dresses in the latest fashions and walks with a ruby-tipped cane, though clearly not because he needs to.
• Osvaldo Cassalanter: Matriarch's firstborn son and heir (Rank 2) • 22 years. The Cassalanter heir has been somewhat more reclusive of late. Missed by his clique, all correspondence with him has been terse and off-putting.
• Terenzio and Elzerina Cassalanter: Matriarch's secondborn son and daughter (Renown 0) • 8 years. The adorable Cassalanter twins are the apple of their mama and papa's eyes. They enjoy playing in their mother's butterfly garden.
• Ceraster Cassalanter: Matriarch's uncle (Rank 2) • 58 years. Ammalia's uncle has long been one of her closest confidants. Ceraster has served as a Magistrate for Waterdeep for several decades now, and is easily one of the most respected among them. He is careful to recuse himself from any cases that involve the nobles of Waterdeep at all, neatly sidestepping accusations of either favoritism or using his temporal power to strike at House rivals.
• Imilantra Cassalanter: Matriarch's cousin (Rank 2) • 42 years. Ammalia's shadow when the two were girls, Imilantra grew up quiet where Ammalia was sociable. Imilantra's mother fostered her artistic talent, hiring fine tutors at personal expense, and shortly after her Coming Out, Imilantra joined the Scriveners', Scribes', and Clerks' Guild. She has since risen in prominence and now serves as the lady master of the guild.

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

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Perks

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

• xxx: Renown xxx. x