in Sardolphyn’s Gambit you mentioned other families of Waterdeep: Eskult, Yeldred and Tramnur. Can you please tell about them more?
[[Ed: this time, the Tramnur family…]] 1)
The Tramnur family’s wealth comes from diverse investing-in-Waterdeep-businesses, sponsoring ship voyages and cargoes, and owning ranchland and getting income from meat and milk sales, but increasingly, in recent decades: …#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 4, 2020
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…buying decaying buildings in Dock Ward, South Ward, and recently in Castle Ward, adding both floors and balconies, and repurposing them to have spacious rear entries and ramps for easy bulk cargo movements, retaining… 3)
…shopfront uses on the ground floor, converting the floor above from offices or rental living quarters to small-storage “strongrooms,” then putting new and more luxurious rental living quarters on two floors above that, with…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 4, 2020
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…plumbing all moved to an internal ‘stack’ where any leaks should flood out the back, into the alley or sewers, and not into the strongrooms. Many of these upper floors are fitted with luxurious marble bathing tubs and… 5)
…large beds with skylights and ‘mood lighting,’ and have proven very popular with Waterdhavian nobles looking for places to stash mistresses, black-sheep family members, and guests (not to mention undercover ‘safe houses’ …#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 4, 2020
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…used for shady-work or by spouses who have furious fights with each other and need their own simmer-down spaces, or to carry on hobbies the other spouse finds objectionable, from drunken benders to the use of escorts to… 7)
…gaming all night while smoking and drinking with “louts” of fellow gamers).
As a result, the Tramnurs, who are quite willing to pay skilled guild workers very well for ‘top-goblet’ work, and to use that skilled labor to… #Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 4, 2020
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…custom-outfit these luxury floors just as clients like them (many nobles want both floors, and to join them with internal circular staircases, as well as screens and winter shutters and windows for their balconies, not to… 9)
…mention fireplace flues opening onto the balconies, to keep them private and to give them some measure of winter warmth), have risen to the notice of, and in the regard of, Waterdhavian nobility.
Which has led the Tramnur…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 4, 2020
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…matriarch and her six older aunts to entertain dreams of being ennobled (though the family patriarch thinks this goal very unlikely, and is unwilling to do anything “too forward” to try to push for it; he won’t attend the… 11)
…endless round of revels that his womenfolk so enthusastically dress up for—the aunts in a predatory “let’s catch me a noble husband, or at least a partner to dally with overnight,” the daughters of the family for…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 4, 2020
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…entertainment and good food and drink and to meet interesting and powerful people of high station, and the wife to “let’s network like anything, to find someone willing to help me make the Tramnurs noble.” 13)
The patriarch of the family is the calm, tired, up-to-his-bushy-and-graying-eyebrows in work Bhaerant Tramnur, who is married to Alyse Tramnur. They have three daughters, in their late teens aged a year apart, and one much…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 4, 2020
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…younger son: in descending order of age: Maerthaya (19); Tarltaya (18); Lhammaethe (17); and Brand (8). The six older aunts are all a decade older than the patriarch, and are overpainted, heavily-feathered, gleeful… 15)
…hard-drinking cougars (as we would call them; current Deep parlance just speaks of them as “aprowl”), and in descending order of age are Thaeya; Myramiea (“Meer-ah-MY-ah”); Cantele (“Can-TELL”); Deira (“DEER-ah”); Yalantra; …#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 4, 2020
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…and Haetha (“HAY-thah”). Cantele is the real beauty and brains, who usually scores a willing noble for the night, Thaeya is a forcible sort who boldly dragoons folk (which works better with commoners than nobles, who have so…
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…some doppelgangers covertly placed amid certain noble-mansion staff servants, as a possible candidate to be kidnapped (and held for eventual ransom) while in the short term she’s impersonated, with an eye to seeing what…17)
…many bold-dragoon family members of their own whom they deal with daily) and Yalantra is a dark beauty apt to be led astray by all manner of crackpot ‘mystical’ beliefs and fads, which has brought her to the attention of…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 4, 2020
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…wealth and valuable items can be wormed out of the Tramnurs (and the nobles whose revels they attend).#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 4, 2020