Post by Beowuuf on Apr 19, 2008 13:28:01 GMT -5
Leader of the sages after Gwynian's death, this the the story, tribute and d20 stats of the man.
Story of Tyrenis Amarrya
Tyrenis Amarrya was marked for greatness from the moment he was born, during a lunar eclipse at the instant of high noon on 16th Jera, MS 5040. The child of a wandering Kai Lord and a wealthy Lyrian merchant’s daughter, Tyrenis was born with Kai blood and yet marked by the astrological ascendancy of Ishir.
His father, Sun Strider, the son of a Sommerlund nobleman, was a Kai Lord infamous for travelling throughout north-eastern Magnamund and who was wanted on sedition and espionage charges in Vassagonia. He had eventually grown tired of travelling endlessly and had settled in Varetta, capital of Lyris. Meeting and falling in love with a beautiful merchant’s daughter, named Helena, he later received permission from the Kai Order to begin a family outside of Sommerlund.
Helena’s mother had been a Lyrian Sage who had nursed her future husband back to health after a devastating illness and who had later abandoned her duties as a Sage to become the merchant’s wife and bring up his children. This was always a course that Helena’s mother had always been in turmoil about, as the fact that she had had only one daughter she saw as a sign of Ishir’s disapproval of her leaving the common people of Lyris behind.
Helena herself, although a kindly soul, considered her duty to her family (and particularly her mother) to be of paramount duty and when she met and fell in love with Sun Strider, her only condition was that he settle down and be a force of the Sun God Kai there in Lyris.
As an infant, Tyrenis loved playing in the sun and could spend hours staring up at the sky, as well as being extremely boisterous like any young boy. His parents loved him unconditionally and Helena felt that perhaps her mother had been right to give up her Sagely duties.
This changed in MS 5050, the year of the Second Black Muster. Sun Strider, even though he was a retired Kai Lord, had returned to Sommerlund for the annual celebration of Spring and was killed in action at the razing of the Kai Monastery during the feast of Fehmarn. Then Helena’s parents were both killed in a disastrous house fire and Helena felt she needed to put a distance between herself and her double tragedy.
Moving to Quarlen, the northernmost town of Lyris, Helena took up her mother’s profession and became a Sage of Lyris, the heroes of the Lyrian commoners. Despite her husband’s noble background and her parents’ wealth, the common people accepted her as the gentle woman she was and, even without the wealth she gladly distributed to the poor of Quarlen, the community rallied around to support her and her young son.
Charles Vendim, later friend and aide of Tyrenis,. first met Tyrenis soon after Tyrenis’ mother moved to Quarlen. Charles was the second son of a minor nobleman and who spent far too much time in the non-noble areas, whilst Tyrenis was brought up by his mother and her friendly neighbours, so although they were poor, like all the villagers, they were never desperate.
Their relationship had been fully cemented when, as a young adult, Charles had been assigned by his father to oversee a land dispute between a wealthy merchant and an elderly widow. Although the nobility clearly favoured the merchant, who had a stronger case, neither was really in the right and Tyrenis had been asked by his mother to perhaps influence the young nobleman. Whilst not disobeying his mother directly, he and Charles had co-operated to bring about a mutually agreeable solution where the merchant obtained the land for a considerable sum and the widow got to live there rent-free until her death a few years later.
About ten years later still, despite Charles’ father’s urgings to leave the non-nobility alone, when Charles and Tyrenis were out celebrating Charles’ birthday in the woods outside Quarlen, word came to them that Lord Rylim, the ostensible ruling lord of Quarlen had convened a court of nobles and condemned Charles’ father to exile or death for allowing the class boundaries to be broken. Charles' mother, Lady Tilanna Vendim, was heartbroken and his elder brother, now Lord Rylan Vendim, sent word for him to get out of Quarlen quickly and so, even as the First Lyrian Order was busily in its death-throes around them, the two friends set off on an exploration of northern Magnamund, with Tyrenis teaching his friend the ways of the Lyrisian Sages as he knew them.
Story of Tyrenis Amarrya
Tyrenis Amarrya was marked for greatness from the moment he was born, during a lunar eclipse at the instant of high noon on 16th Jera, MS 5040. The child of a wandering Kai Lord and a wealthy Lyrian merchant’s daughter, Tyrenis was born with Kai blood and yet marked by the astrological ascendancy of Ishir.
His father, Sun Strider, the son of a Sommerlund nobleman, was a Kai Lord infamous for travelling throughout north-eastern Magnamund and who was wanted on sedition and espionage charges in Vassagonia. He had eventually grown tired of travelling endlessly and had settled in Varetta, capital of Lyris. Meeting and falling in love with a beautiful merchant’s daughter, named Helena, he later received permission from the Kai Order to begin a family outside of Sommerlund.
Helena’s mother had been a Lyrian Sage who had nursed her future husband back to health after a devastating illness and who had later abandoned her duties as a Sage to become the merchant’s wife and bring up his children. This was always a course that Helena’s mother had always been in turmoil about, as the fact that she had had only one daughter she saw as a sign of Ishir’s disapproval of her leaving the common people of Lyris behind.
Helena herself, although a kindly soul, considered her duty to her family (and particularly her mother) to be of paramount duty and when she met and fell in love with Sun Strider, her only condition was that he settle down and be a force of the Sun God Kai there in Lyris.
As an infant, Tyrenis loved playing in the sun and could spend hours staring up at the sky, as well as being extremely boisterous like any young boy. His parents loved him unconditionally and Helena felt that perhaps her mother had been right to give up her Sagely duties.
This changed in MS 5050, the year of the Second Black Muster. Sun Strider, even though he was a retired Kai Lord, had returned to Sommerlund for the annual celebration of Spring and was killed in action at the razing of the Kai Monastery during the feast of Fehmarn. Then Helena’s parents were both killed in a disastrous house fire and Helena felt she needed to put a distance between herself and her double tragedy.
Moving to Quarlen, the northernmost town of Lyris, Helena took up her mother’s profession and became a Sage of Lyris, the heroes of the Lyrian commoners. Despite her husband’s noble background and her parents’ wealth, the common people accepted her as the gentle woman she was and, even without the wealth she gladly distributed to the poor of Quarlen, the community rallied around to support her and her young son.
Charles Vendim, later friend and aide of Tyrenis,. first met Tyrenis soon after Tyrenis’ mother moved to Quarlen. Charles was the second son of a minor nobleman and who spent far too much time in the non-noble areas, whilst Tyrenis was brought up by his mother and her friendly neighbours, so although they were poor, like all the villagers, they were never desperate.
Their relationship had been fully cemented when, as a young adult, Charles had been assigned by his father to oversee a land dispute between a wealthy merchant and an elderly widow. Although the nobility clearly favoured the merchant, who had a stronger case, neither was really in the right and Tyrenis had been asked by his mother to perhaps influence the young nobleman. Whilst not disobeying his mother directly, he and Charles had co-operated to bring about a mutually agreeable solution where the merchant obtained the land for a considerable sum and the widow got to live there rent-free until her death a few years later.
About ten years later still, despite Charles’ father’s urgings to leave the non-nobility alone, when Charles and Tyrenis were out celebrating Charles’ birthday in the woods outside Quarlen, word came to them that Lord Rylim, the ostensible ruling lord of Quarlen had convened a court of nobles and condemned Charles’ father to exile or death for allowing the class boundaries to be broken. Charles' mother, Lady Tilanna Vendim, was heartbroken and his elder brother, now Lord Rylan Vendim, sent word for him to get out of Quarlen quickly and so, even as the First Lyrian Order was busily in its death-throes around them, the two friends set off on an exploration of northern Magnamund, with Tyrenis teaching his friend the ways of the Lyrisian Sages as he knew them.