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#21 NiGHTMARE

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Posted 19 January 2005 - 01:42 PM

The current Pommarch (the most junior member of the Council) is a woman:

Pommarch Tyrda Q'Helvor (Neutral, Half-Elf Wizard Level 14):

The first woman among the Council of Six, the newest Pommarch was "suggested" by the freshman Iltarch as a suitable candidate. To their horror, the tradition bound elder Council members found Tyrda was merely the head of a moderately successful family of pottery merchants from Esmeltaran (of low social status and non-Athkatlan residence). She was also a wizardess, a secret so well kept that only five living people, counting Rhinnom, knew of her talents. (She nearly blasted him for revealing it when first received by the Council!) Rhinnom argued that she was needed as a mole among the Cowled Wizards and would be easy for the Six to control. She would have her own good reasons for not betraying the Council, especially given her boost in status and income that her family could never provide on its own.

Though she does not realize the extent of the manipulations, Tyrda does know that she is on the Council primarily to act as the government's control over the Cowled Wizards. The human appearing Tyrda seems to be in her early 30s but, like the Iltarch, is decades older than that. Her father taught her to suspect everything, trust nothing except coin and herself, and use any means to stay ahead of "the game". Viewing it all with that detached aspect, Tyrda enjoys the new levels of intrigue she is being shown, and she plots to seduce or otherwise gain secrets and leverage from the Council in due time.

Titles: Lady of the Q'Helvor family (1359+); Pommarch (1362+).


Of course very, very few people outside the Council know the identity of its members, so as far as anyone else knows the Council could consist entirely of women :).

BTW the above quote is from the Lands of Intrigue boxset, which you can freely (and legally) download here: http://www.wizards.c...d/dnd/downloads

#22 -Ashara-

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Posted 19 January 2005 - 02:22 PM

Long abandoned character sketch...

Name: Glafira Mirabbelle
Race: Forest Gnome
Class: Bard

Kit: Buffon (Gnome only)

-Can only learn/cast Illusion school
- Bard Song is the Jester's
- Gains access to more of a Thieve's protfolio (gets 5 points to Pick Pockets, Find Traps, Disarm Traps and Open Locks each at every Level Up)
- Armour restrictions the same as a mage's
- Can use robes
- Lore values, weapon proficienceis, level up scheme as per thief class

Stats:

Str: 8 Dex: 15 Const: 14 Int: 17 Wis: 9 Ch: 16

Biography:

Glafira Mirabelle was born on Lantan - an Island of Gnomes, and grew up as a girl with the dream. Coming of age she finlly figured that the dream was to become a ministrel. Enterprenerial maiden found employement with one of the shady trade companies which had a share in the portal that opened in the mainland Faerun. Instead of buying and shipping (or smuggling) ores, Glafira immediately directed herself to Waterdeep and presented herself at the New Olam Academy.

The welcome to a gnome who said that she can sing, was quite tepid, and the instructors kept waving Glafira away with the continious "Please, come tomorrow, dear." Since Glafira had troubles finding out what ime tomorrow started in Waterdeep, she camped at the Academy's grounds. That persistence caught an eye of a young Thethyrian student - a noblewoman Melirinda who decided to pull a prank at the gnome's expence. She introuduced herself as a professor at the Academy and scheduled the audition.

It turned out that the gnome had a unique manner of delivery of her material, which attracted an amused crowd of idle art students. And where the students are gathered, a schoolmaster would happen to be along sooner or later. Thus Glafira got noted, and enrolled to study in the New Olam. Easy-going and mischevous gnome appreciated Melirinda's joke and the two became fast friends.

After finishing the course, Glafira was employing out around Waterdeep, until the news came from Thethyr that Melirinda died. The gnome immediately went to see the grieving family, but found things in uproar, as Melirinda died in childbed, birth to an illegetimate and worst, half-elven daughter. Relationships between elves and humans being quite strained in Tethyr at that time, the father of the child was wisely absent, so the harsh but dotting elder brother of Melirinda, Lord Anselm, adopted his niece and she grew with her cousins.

Anselm had an obssessive idea to make the child, Lin'Dei into another Melirinda, and would not listen to the hired teachers that the girl is tone-deaf and cannot carry the tune if her life depended on it. fter the sixth of the unfortunate maesters was kicked out of the house, Glafira offered her services. She too, to her dissappointment discovered the girl's inaptitude to anything but fighting her cousins, but she managed to get Lin'Dei past the basics of lute playing, which was a great success.

The quiet times in the household lasted only to Anselm's death, as his heir and Lin'Dei's cousin had no love for her. The new Lord accused Lin'Dei of conspiracy and imprisoned her along with Glafira. With the help of a ranger Sevrin and a rogue Kar'Nuelim, they were freed and the company fled Tethyr and hired itself out as mercenaries.

Sooner or later all things come to an end, though. Sevrin was killed in battle and his death made Lin'Dei reckless and bitter, so she eagerly involved the group (joined by an elven cleric, Ladimer) into a plot against her cousin's son, who by that time inherited the family's lands to help out the young maiden Clara, he had married. While the venture at the end succeeded, and Clara was safely delivered to her father and initiated the inquery against her husband, Lin'Dei died of poison and wounds inflicted on her.

After Lin'Dei's death each of the company went on his or her own way. Glafira's ended up in Athkatla where she sought employ with the troup of actors in the Five Flagon's that caught her fancy by their unusual style and appearance. However, the troup mistress, Raelis, was adamant about not needing the gnome. With her usual stubborness, Glfira settled in the five Flagons looking for her chance. When the lead actor, Haer'Dalis dissappeared, Realis still refused Glafira the audition. It is likely that Glafira would be delighted to join into any venture that would be likely to warm Realis' heart to her.

#23 Aion

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Posted 20 January 2005 - 01:22 AM

NPC idea I posted on CoM.

Golem & Creator - A joinable stone golem and it's joinable creator, a female gnomish wizard who is more than capable of dealing with Jan.


It's available for adoption.

#24 Steve1

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Posted 23 January 2005 - 09:02 AM

Some Amnian population figures, courtesy of the Lands of Intrigue sourcebook:

Total population of Amn = 3,600,000

84% human (3,024,000)
15% halfling (540,000)
1% other (36,000)

Of this 36,000, dwarves and elves are uncommon, half-orcs and half-elves are almost unheard of (although the city of Purskul has a 20% half-orc population), and gnomes are so rare that most Amnish citizens have never even met one.

 


Sorry to nitpick but that's not quite right.
- Of the 3,600,000 Dwarves and Elves are uncommon.
- Of the 36,000 Dwarves and Elves are the most common.
Otherwise what group makes up the majority of the 1%? :P