House Artemel

House Artemel

Personages

Patriarch: Arneth Artemel Consort: None Heir: Taldiruth Artemel (thirdborn son) Membership (Nobles): 18 Predominant Faith: Malar, Waukeen

Faction Details

Common Descriptors: Greedy, violent, slightly wild Primary Classes: Ranger, fighter, rogue Alignments: CN, N, NE, CE

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: Hunting (boar, monsters), money-lending Holdings: Waterdeep

History

Ethnicity: Illuskan Founded: 1233 DR Previous Eras: 1354 DR

A family of hunters and money-lenders, the Artemel have always had a reputation as being somewhat...uncivilized. They seem to take great delight in less-than-polished manners, and often seem contemptuous of Waterdhavian social mores. In all honesty, there are only two things that have kept them from being outright pariahs: their willingness to lend some of their ample money to their peers, and their reputation as ferocious, vibrant lovers.

Members of the Family

• Lord Arneth "the Boar" Artemel: Patriarch (Rank 10) • 41 years. A heavy, but muscled man with appetites as notoriously expansive as his belly, Arneth is also absurdly influential. In his keeping is multiple generations worth of debts owed his House by other nobles of Waterdeep, and he does not hesitate to call them due when it is useful to do so. By and large, though, he prefers to hold them over the heads of other Houses as a guarantee of civility between his House and theirs. Voracious in his appetites for good food, good wine, and a good rut, Lord Arneth has sired several bastards, only one of which he has deemed promising enough to officially acknowledge and make his heir.
• Taldiruth Artemel: Heir (Rank 4) • 19 years. Young Taldiruth grew up in the South Ward, his mother the head of a tannery at the edge of the city's walls. He grew up fighting, and when he was thirteen, he was taken in to help on Artemel hunts. It wasn't long before he learned that he was the House patriarch's bastard, mostly because of the taunts and contempt of full-blood cousins. But Taldiruth didn't take such abuse laying down, and found himself in more than one fight with those highnose brats, to the amusement of the Artemel adults. At the age of sixteen, his father had seen enough: he formally offered to acknowledge the boy not just as his son, but as his heir. His mother was paid a fat purse, and Taldiruth went off to lord it over his former tormentors at Wingseat villa in the xx Ward. His Presentation went off without a hitch, and he's found himself to be the darling of his generation's social set: he's a stranger in a crowd who have mostly grown up together, and he has rough edges that, as one young lady put it, "are a pleasure to rub up against."

Buildon Artemel Patriarch's cousin (Rank 3) • 19 years Anyone who spends any amount of time around Buildon soon learns that he grew up with his mother, a ranger, on the road until he was twelve, when a goblin ambush nearly cost her her life. Though they both survived, she has been in bad health physically ever since, and his cousin Lord Halmor has made it very clear that she will always have the best of care...so long as Buildon works for the family's interests in business. So now rather than roaming the forests of the North as he'd prefer to do, he helps his House deal with the army of various hunters and woodsmen who work for them.

Holdings

• Resources Limit: If necessary, House Artemel could probably generate about 38,000 gp in liquid coin and valuables within a month.

Wingseat (Villa)

Sul Street, Sea Ward

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Known Faction Perks

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

• Living Quarters: Rank 1+. Those in good standing with the House are given quarters within the House's Waterdhavian villa appropriate to their role in the House.
• Living Expenses/Salaries: Rank 1+. Those in good standing with the House also receive a stipend of 1gp plus 5sp per day per point of Rank. This is not actual cash, but simply familial credit towards payment of Lifestyle costs. This stacks with the same kind of familial credit received from the Waterdhavian Noble Background (see Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide).
• Business Opportunities: Rank 3+. Lynchpins to the House's operations receive access to a variety of business opportunities within the House's money-making endeavors. This is handled as "Running a Business" in downtime months. This does not incur a business expense, but if too many of the character rolls results that end in a loss of money, he can and will find his Rank in the House reduced.
• Heir or Consort (Title): Rank 3+. The holder of one of the legal titles Heir of House and Consort of House, as recorded with the city of Waterdeep, is entitled to an additional 2gp per day in familial credit, per the "Living Expenses/Salaries" entry above. The heir is also accorded certain privileges within the legal system of Waterdeep, including the ability to speak on behalf of his House in some legal proceedings and the like.
• Wealth of the House: Rank 10. The patriarch of the House is in total control of the House's finances and various holdings, established by the laws of Waterdeep.