House Truesilver
Coat of arms: shield of scarlet, with a slender purple border ("edge") all around. Diagonally across the shield from the lower left corner (hilt) to upper right (point) is a stylized silver sword: it has a small handgrip and quillons, an extremely wide blade like a chef's cleaver that is curved like a scimitar.
Truesilver:
This house has a long military tradition, and its nobles have commanded the Purple Dragons several times. It has maintained its status by having skilled and well-placed members of the family in the military, particularly the burgeoning navy. The Truesilvers have formed a strong alliance with the Dauntinghorns, who share their focus on the Dragonmere and the Inner Sea. This relationship puts them in opposition to the Rowanmantles and the Hawklins in court. The Truesilvers are too gracious to consider another family as an enemy, but they strongly disagree with the Rowanmantles on the priorities of the nation. The weight of the royal house has carried the day so far, and the kingdom places increasing emphasis on expanding its naval power and stretching its influence on the Dragonmere. The Truesilvers share the concerns of the Crownsilvers over the perceived obsession with trade shown by some of the lesser noble houses. Although they are not as shrill about it as the other house, the Truesilvers participate in the chivalric events sponsored by the Crownsilvers.
Truesilver [GTR,p.56] * of the Royal House of Cormyr [GTR,p.56] * exists as of 245 DR, which means the Silver family split sometime between 26 DR and 245 DR. [CaN,p.177] * founded by second marriage of Villiam Obarskyr to a Silver, 2nd of noble families [FRFAQ] * Truesilver Castle in Suzail [C9410,p.9] * holdings in Marsember [C9410,cover] * most active of the three royal families. [C9410,p.49] * distinguished themselves for generations by loyalty to the king and by military exploits. [C9410,p.49] * members have commanded the Purple Dragons several times in history. [C9410,p.49] * represented at court by retired family members, which both makes the family most dependably loyal and ensures its representative lacks the vigor to give the family much political clout. [C9410,p.49] * were among those who fought with Arangor and Azoun II against Thauglor in 1018 DR. [CaN,p.322] * didn't want to take sides in civil war between Salember and Rhigaerd II; they equivocated and minced when Salember pressed for troops and aid. [CaN,p.405] * in the event of Azoun IV's death during the Abraxus incident, the family favored a ruling council for Cormyr rather than any regency as a way out from under Obarskyr tyranny. [CaN,p.426]* family was impoverished enough to make Possession of the family keep a cause for concern in Beldarm Truesilver's lifetime [Dr281,p.76-77]
FAMILY MEMBERS CURRENTLY ALIVE
FAMILY MEMBERS RECENTLY ALIVE
HISTORICAL FAMILY MEMBERS
- Ayesunder Truesilver, Warden of the Port of Marsember (LG hm F14) [GTR,p.53], current head of the family [C9410,p.49], head of the Imperial Navy [C9410,p.58]
- Beldred Truesilver, one of the knights who rides with Princess Alusair, may be a leader under Alusair. [CaN,p.105-106]
- Taldeth Truesilver, rumored to have pursued Tanalasta for courting. [CaN,p.138]
- Braegor Truesilver, involved with Gaspar Cormaeril and Aunadar Bleth in the Abraxus Affair [CaN,p.464]
- Ilbreth Truesilver (LG hm Ftr9/Highknight5), Knight Royal of Cormyr, once a personal guard of Azoun IV but now a loyal personal bodyguard to Filfaeril [DrA5,p.62]
- Glorin Truesilver (hm)(432), cousin to Elvarin Truesilver, loyal to King Duar and fought by his side against the Turcassans and Magrath the Minotaur, and seemed to have been killed during the fight. [CaN,p.241,249]
- Aosinin Truesilver (hm)(900), cousin to King Galaghard (implies that Galaghard's mother is a Truesilver, if direct cousin), fought with King Galaghard against the Witch-Lords [CaN,p.294], a great strategist who once wrote that a commander sending troops into battle owes it to them to be sober at the time [BtHR,p.279-280]
- Beldarm Truesilver (hm)(1169-1235), burly broken-nosed good-natured warrior, once played along with an assassin then reported it to King Pryntaler in loyalty, is likely to have been the "Hullack Hawk" who raided estates in Sembia and plundered them [Dr281,p.76-77]
- Damia Truesilver (hf)(1286), a Truesilver by marriage not blood, widow of Lord Truesilver who died in the civil war between Salmeber and Rhigaerd II, pregnant with Lord Truesilver's child, Damia is on Rhigaerd II's side [CaN,p.408], grandmother to Azoun IV. [CaN,p.433]
- Tanalusta Truesilver (hf)(1286-1332), daughter of Damia Truesilver, married King Rhigaerd II, mother of Sulesta and King Azoun IV. [CycR,p.34]
ED ON RAVRELLA TRUESILVER AND SOME BRIEF INFO AS HER TIME AS QUEEN
Bryntarth I of Cormyr took to wife Ravrella Truesilver, a raven-haired beauty of short stature, quiet public persona, and utter self-control of her voice and features. Few, even servants who spent much time with her, family, and her (very small handful of close) friends knew many of her thoughts, views, and emotional reactions to things. She was a master of self-control, and decided to remain in the background and publicly mute as much as possible—and so is nigh-forgotten today, having left no mark at all at Court and in Cormyrean society.
Before becoming queen, it’s known that Ravrella Truesilver was a superb rider (and even spearhunter, from horseback), that she enjoyed card games with women of her family and friendly noblewomen, and that she enjoyed reading poetry and fiction of all sorts. She was born in 856 DR, wed Bryntarth in 872 DR, bore him a son, the future Galaghard III, in 873 DR, and thereafter produced two stillborn daughters, Emaerilla in 875 DR (before becoming Queen) and Princess Yestrelle in 879 DR. Ravrella became Queen of Cormyr when her husband ascended to the throne in 875 DR, and died of a winter chill and resulting “multiple fevers or maladies” in 894 DR.
Obscure Court records (of the questioning of one of Queen Ravrella’s friends, Muratha Emmarask, who was briefly suspected of involvement in the hunting death of a popular courtier, Andranras Owlhond) preserve Muratha’s opinion—which is presumably truth, as neither High Wizard Thanderahast nor anyone else disputed it—that Bryntarth and Ravrella first noticed each other as avid and naturally-skilled equestrians, and that they often rode together in the forest, “laughing at play” together.
The royal couple was urbane and controlled in public, but in private were said to be very affectionate with each other and with their son, though neither of them were talkative people. The Queen was observed to spend much daily time watering and arranging flowers in the Royal Palace, and seeing to it that the Court kept track of the births and deaths and birthdays and anniversaries of nobility, and that “suitably gracious and beautiful notes and flowers were sent.”
Ravrella quietly assembled quite a library of chapbooks of poetry during her royal years, and although this was not regarded with respect by later Obarskyrs, and was scattered about the Royal Palace, with many tomes being lost or given away, occasional tomes still turn up in private hands in Suzail or tucked inside some of the “book-hides” (books that contain storage niches for small items, such as keys, gems, rings, and—obviously—small and slender chapbooks of poetry). A few of these finds have annotations in the margins, in Ravrella’s tiny, beautiful handwriting, usually additional lines she composed while inspired by what she was reading, but sometimes cryptic notes such as “Bryn won’t let me forget” and “Hidden in the usual place” or “Wear the mauve mask.”
Some of these notes have led later personages, including Royal Magician Vangerdahast and the Highknight Glarasteer Rhauligan, to suspect that Ravrella’s quiet public exterior hid a naughty or at least avidly-pursuing-intrigues mind. In Elminster’s opinion, “There’s a mystery about Ravrella that’s still to be unraveled, but I doubt it concerns love affairs, treason, magic, or any endangerment of the realm. More likely she and Bryntarth founded their own horse-cult and worshipped in secret, or some such.”
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