House Belbrundel
House Belbrundel
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Personages
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| Patriarch: Aulin Belbrundel Consort: None Heir: Yulyssil Belbrundel (firstborn daughter) Membership (Nobles): 45 nobles Predominant Faith: None |
Faction Details
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| Common Descriptors: Brutal, cunning, vengeful Primary Classes: Fighter, ranger, rogue Alignments: N, NE, CN, CE |
Faction Ranks
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| • 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. |
Interests
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| Trade & Interests: Breeding of domesticated monsters (guard drakes and hippogriffs primarily) and harvesting of monster parts for magical materials Holdings: Waterdeep, ranches around the Dessarin Vale |
History
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| Ethnicity: Tethyrian Founded: 1468 |
Founded by a legally confusing union between a Gundwynd daughter and a bastard Belabranta after the fall of House Belabranta, House Belbrundel quickly made a name for itself by providing guard drakes to those who desires them in Waterdeep. The owning of guard drakes quickly became a sign of influence and prestige, some even displaying the beasts prominently in promenades through the Heroes' Garden during the late 1470s and early 1480s.
Today House Belbrundel continues to be the sole source for guard drakes in Waterdeep, with the ritual for creating the beasts a tightly guarded secret. They are also hotly in competition with House Gundgulf for the procurement and sale of hippogriffs, though both Houses are trying to revive an aerial guard that uses hippogriffs rather than griffons. The House is known to pay top coin for the scales of chromatic dragons (only).
Members of the Family
- Lord Aulin Belbrundel: Patriarch (Rank 10) • 63 years. Doddering and reclusive, Lord Aulin wishes nothing to do with any of the world. After the death of his beloved wife Shanree ten years ago, Aulin entered a mourning which he has never really emerged from. Fortunately his eldest daughter is canny and very capable. Two years ago, Aulin's Household guard was forced to put his long-time pet green guard drake Verdant down after the beast sensed the old man's weakness and attacked him. This has only made the old man even more melancholy.
- Yulyssil Belbrundel: Heir (Rank 8) • 35 years. Quickly risen to the challenge of managing her House after her mother's death and her father's retreat, Yulyssil is nicknamed the "Queen of Drakes" in Waterdhavian society. She frequently is seen at social events with her pet red guard drake Ruby, an incredibly intelligent, well-trained beast utterly devoted to Yulyssil. With a love of all night revels and vicious competitive streak a mile wide, Yulyssil is a force to be reckoned with in the Game, and she takes her House's rivalry with the Gundgulfs very seriously. She and her consort Bhegan have two children, Deskond (a boy of 14 years) and Uthlyl (a girl of 10 years).
- Bhegan Belbrundel: Yulyssil's consort (Rank 5) • 33 years. A Nesher cousin, Bhegan fell madly in love with Yulyssil at his Coming Out ball, when he begged to pet Ruby and she insisted that he must give her a dance in return for being allowed to do so. This began his wooing of her over the next two years, finally winning her hand. He readily left his own House to join hers, and the two have been inseparable ever since. Bhegan has a guard drake of his own, a black named Midnight, and Yulyssil jokes that he only married her in order to get his own drake, the way he dotes on the beast. Only Deskond and Uthlyl receive more of his affection, and that only barely.
- Shulaleen Belbrundel: Patriarch's secondborn daughter (Rank 7) • 31 years. Though both Yulyssil and Shulaleen hold the secret to creating the guard drake eggs, only Shulaleen is capable of performing the rites needed. She is also an incredibly skilled trainer, heading up the small cadre of drake trainers who help train the drakes (alongside whoever it is has paid for the beast and bonded with it). Shulaleen is plain-looking and always wears gloves and long sleeves, to hide the scars gotten from many a young guard drake's first training.
- Edareen Gauntyl: Patriarch's thirdborn daughter (Rank –) • 26 years. Of Lord Aulin's three daughters, meek Eldareen was the odd one out all her life. Nothing highlighted this quite so strongly as the fact that she was very uncomfortable around guard drakes since a childhood incident: a household drake attacked her when she was young, and she never recovered from the trauma of it. She all but fled her birth house into a marriage with Belress Gauntyl, and seems to have basically forgotten her relations entirely.
Holdings
- Resources Limit: If necessary, House Belbrundel could probably generate about 14,000 gp in liquid coin and valuables within a month.
The House of Drakes (Villa)
xxx, Sea Ward
Known Faction Perks
Scions and agents of House Belbrundel 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.
