Delveris
Lady Delveris Blakros
Being the youngest daughter of her generation, nobody ever expected too much of Lady Delveris as a child. Her greatest value to her mother was as a pawn in the family’s centuries-long game of economics and influence, and before she had turned 20 the family had used her as bait to ensnare the cunning and beautiful Lord Pieter Autun, second son of one of the wealthiest spice importers of the Taldan city of Yanmass. Pieter gave her three sons, but never fully embraced his fate as a Blakros groom, bristling at the politicking of Delveris and her sisters and resentful of his elder brother Rudig, who inherited his father’s business and a seat on his home city’s Mercantile Council. Pieter eventually turned against the Blakros family completely, siding with Delveris’s “sacrificed” elder sister Sarnia and her Onyx Alliance allies to attack House Blakros itself and their allies in the Pathfinder Society during that organization’s Grand Convocation of 4712 AR.
Pieter was slain in the attack, leaving Delveris to raise their three sons alone. Overwhelmed by her additional duties to the family, she hasn’t been doing such a great job. Her eldest son, Asher, has fallen in with the scheming Kalistocratic cult behind the Prophet’s Academy, in the Coins, and refuses to speak with her about anything other than money or business. Her second son, Pendleton, is a promising student at the College of Mysteries, but the self-centered child of privilege always has his head in the clouds, and has little time for his mother. Her youngest son, Lord Corian, ran away from home two years ago, and she hasn’t seen him since.
Even if it seems to Delveris that her sisters and cousins have never fully trusted her since Pieter’s betrayal, the house continues to put a great deal of faith in her control of the family’s international antiquities acquisition operation. Delveris controls dozens of field agents across the Inner Sea and beyond, urging them to plunder forgotten tombs and deadly dungeons in search of valuable, often magical artifacts the family can sell or exhibit at the Blakros Museum. Delveris works with the retired Pathfinder agent Venla Sirola, a confidante and friend of several years whom she trusts more than her own kin. Delveris deeply resents her sister, Dhrami, who has been the slowest to forgive her for her husband’s actions a decade ago, still sending caustic comments in her direction at every opportunity. Delveris considers Dhrami to be a dilettante at best, more interested in crude paintings and nightlife than in curating the family’s public collection as steward of Blakros Museum. Academically speaking, she has more in common with Dhrami’s husband, Nigel Aldain, but resents that he has not taken on the Blakros name. How can a non-Blakros run Blakros Museum, she often wonders? For years, Delveris has been petitioning her elder sister, Scion Lord Hamaria, to allow her to displace Nigel Aldain and take a more active role in managing the affairs of the museum. So far Hamaria refuses to budge and seems more distant than ever before. Ostracized from her family, her husband 8 years in the ground, Delveris today finds comfort only in business and, occasionally, in the arms of the courtesan Versien of Nisroch, in the Silken Court.
Pieter was slain in the attack, leaving Delveris to raise their three sons alone. Overwhelmed by her additional duties to the family, she hasn’t been doing such a great job. Her eldest son, Asher, has fallen in with the scheming Kalistocratic cult behind the Prophet’s Academy, in the Coins, and refuses to speak with her about anything other than money or business. Her second son, Pendleton, is a promising student at the College of Mysteries, but the self-centered child of privilege always has his head in the clouds, and has little time for his mother. Her youngest son, Lord Corian, ran away from home two years ago, and she hasn’t seen him since.
Even if it seems to Delveris that her sisters and cousins have never fully trusted her since Pieter’s betrayal, the house continues to put a great deal of faith in her control of the family’s international antiquities acquisition operation. Delveris controls dozens of field agents across the Inner Sea and beyond, urging them to plunder forgotten tombs and deadly dungeons in search of valuable, often magical artifacts the family can sell or exhibit at the Blakros Museum. Delveris works with the retired Pathfinder agent Venla Sirola, a confidante and friend of several years whom she trusts more than her own kin. Delveris deeply resents her sister, Dhrami, who has been the slowest to forgive her for her husband’s actions a decade ago, still sending caustic comments in her direction at every opportunity. Delveris considers Dhrami to be a dilettante at best, more interested in crude paintings and nightlife than in curating the family’s public collection as steward of Blakros Museum. Academically speaking, she has more in common with Dhrami’s husband, Nigel Aldain, but resents that he has not taken on the Blakros name. How can a non-Blakros run Blakros Museum, she often wonders? For years, Delveris has been petitioning her elder sister, Scion Lord Hamaria, to allow her to displace Nigel Aldain and take a more active role in managing the affairs of the museum. So far Hamaria refuses to budge and seems more distant than ever before. Ostracized from her family, her husband 8 years in the ground, Delveris today finds comfort only in business and, occasionally, in the arms of the courtesan Versien of Nisroch, in the Silken Court.
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