Sewarndt

Greyhawk Character

Sewarndt
Names and titles
Nickname:	The Black Prince
Title(s):	Prince, later Emperor of the Nyrond Imperium
General info
Home:	Nyrond
Gender:	Male
Species:	Human
Ethnicity:	Oeridian
Class:	Mage (Level 9)
Dates
Death:	595 CY

Prince Sewarndt was a prince of Nyrond, and son of former King Archbold III. He deposed his brother, Lynwerd, as king to crown himself Emperor of the Nyrond Imperium before being killed in 595 CY.

Description

Sewarndt was a human mage, 5’ 11" and slim of build. He was pleasantly handsome, with green eyes, brown hair and a fetching smile.

Personality

Swearndt was a throwback to the most decadent of House Rax's heritage. He was a self-indulgent power seeker with delusions of an alliance with Duke Szeffrin that might allow them to march through Aerdi and overthrow the madman in Rauxes.

Sewarndt saw himself become Overking of a Great Kingdom that could bring Nyrond and Almor back within its control and that rise again to become the only truly great power of the Flanaess. Sewarndt kept this vision to himself, but he spread rumors of Lynwerd's disloyalty to the king into the minds of some courtiers and advisers in Rel Mord.

His charisma gave him considerable influence. Sewarndt wasvery cunning and skillful at managing to convey to everyone after the event that he favored good judgments made by Archbold and did his best to argue against poor ones. He made every effort to tarnish his brother's reputation in the process.

Activities

In Spring 591 CY reports surfaced suggesting Sewarndt had been seen in the Gnatmarsh perhaps in allegiance with the coven of witches said to dwell there.

Relationships

He was the youngest son of the former King Archbold III of Nyrond, but he did not share a mother with his older brother, Nyrond’s current King Lynwerd I.

In 585 CY he was well received among the fawning courtiers of Duke Korenflass of Oldred, and increasingly so at the courts of some dissident local rulers. at the time he also desired to ally with Duke Szeffrin.

History

Sewarndt and his older brother Lynwerd were starkly different, and the friction between them led to a minor battle for the crown after their father’s abdication in 586 CY. Lynwerd bested his younger brother, leaving Sewarndt to flee Nyrond, presumably south to Almor. There were whispers among the shadows that he had previously sent a magical messenger to Duke Szeffrin, proposing an alliance, seeing himself as marching back to Kalstrand to become a new Overking. Szeffrin, however, maintained an alliance with King Xavener, and publicly rebuffed any talk of an uprising against the Head of House Darmen.

Lynwerd’s mother died in childbirth and Archbold quickly remarried, to Darielle of House Cranden. Quarlanth of Mowbrenn intimated that Sewarndt might be the true heir to the throne of the Great Kingdom due to his lineage through his mother. Quarlanth claimed the heir to the Malachite Throne has run through the mother’s side of House Cranden since Yalranda was named Overqueen in 75 CY.

Sewarndt was considered an outcast from Nyrond’s Royal Family. Duke Korenflass, a Nyrondal noble, needled him endlessly.

See Also

See also: Rulers of Nyrond

References

Bibliography

• "Dispatches: News from Around the Flanaess (Spring 591 CY)". Living Greyhawk Journal #2. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, November 2000.

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Topic	Type	Description	Product	Page/Card/Image
Sewarndt (Prince)	Non-player character	[M9],	Dragon magazine #306	95
Sewarndt (Prince)	Non-player character	[M9],	Living Greyhawk Gazetteer	16, 78
Sewarndt (Prince)	Non-player character	[M9],	Living Greyhawk Journal #2	29
Sewarndt (Prince)	Non-player character	[M9],	The Adventure Begins	30
Sewarndt (Prince)	Non-player character	[M9],	WGR4 The Marklands	68, 72, 89, 93, 94