Sewarndt

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Greyhawk Character
Sewarndt
Names and titles
Nickname:The Black Prince
Title(s):Prince, later Emperor of the Nyrond Imperium
General info
Home:Nyrond
Alignment:Neutral (NE)
Gender:Male
Species:Human
Ethnicity:Oeridian
Class:Mage (Level 9)
Dates
Birthdate:550 CY
Death:595 CY

Prince Sewarndt was a prince of Nyrond, and son of former King Archbold III. He deposed his brother, Lynwerd, as king at the end of 594 CY 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. In Spring 585 CY he was 25 years of age.[1]

Personality

Sewarndt was a throwback to the most decadent of House Rax's heritage. He was a self-indulgent power seeker.[2]

Sewarndt studied magic because he could never hope to equal his father and elder brother as a warrior.[3]

Sewarndt saw himself as able to become Overking of a Great Kingdom that could bring Nyrond and Almor back within its control and rise again to become the only truly great power of the Flanaess. Sewarndt kept this vision to himself.[4]

In Spring 585 CY Sewarndt was of Neutral alignment, tending towards Neutral Evil due to being corrupted by a lust for power.[5] He had come to want more treasure, more magic, more power, more of everything.[6]

Abilities

In Spring 585 CY Sewarndt was a 9th level mage (2nd edition), with Dex 18, Con 15, Int 18, Cha 17, hp 30.[7]

Possessions

In Spring 585 CY Sewarndt wore a ring of protection +3 and boots of speed. He had access to the king's magical treasure trove. He also always wore a ring of mind shielding and ring of invisibility.[8]

Activities

In Spring 585 CY Sewarndt had delusions of an alliance with Duke Szeffrin that might allow them to march through Aerdi and overthrow the mad Overking Ivid V in Rauxes. He spread rumors of Lynwerd's disloyalty to the king into the minds of some courtiers and advisers in Rel Mord. He was planning to dispatch an emissary to Szeffrin.[9]

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.

His charisma gave him considerable influence. Sewarndt was very 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.[10]

In Spring 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.[11] He continued to accumulate friends and contacts among disgruntled minor nobility, working his way up the ranks.[12] At the time he also desired to ally with Duke Szeffrin.[13] Archbold would probably have had anyone accusing his son of wickedness executed for treason (without solid evidence).[14]

History

In Spring 585 CY Sewarndt was seeking to undermine his brother, Lynwerd, and was seeking to establish support for himself within Nyrond.

In the fall of 585 CY Archbold appeared to suffer a stroke. His disability was revealed by a priest to be the result of poisoning. Sewarndt atempted to seize the throne with a group of junior military officers, but was thwarted when the whole clergy of Heironeous in Rel Mord took up arms and attacked Sewarndt’s small force at the palace, rescuing the king. Lynwerd was on an inspection tour in Mithat and, after being notified by magical means within an hour of the attempted coup, led an army to Rel Mord. Sewarndt and some of his supporters fled, while others were quickly killed or captured. Archbold abdicated soon after, and Lynwerd took the throne. Sewarndt was not seen in Nyrond after that until 591 CY, but was believed to be in hiding and planning to take the throne.[15]

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.

Rumors & Legends

In Spring 585 CY there were whispers that he had sent a magical messenger to Szeffrin, proposing an alliance, with visions of marching to Rauxes to become a new Overking.[16]

The Scarlet Brotherhood was feared in 591 CY to have had dealings with Sewarndt.[17]

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.[18]

Appendix

See Also

See also: Rulers of Nyrond

Appearances

References

Citations

  1. ↑ The Marklands, p.94
  2. ↑ The Marklands, p.68
  3. ↑ The Marklands, p.94
  4. ↑ The Marklands, p.68
  5. ↑ The Marklands, p.94
  6. ↑ The Marklands, p.95
  7. ↑ The Marklands, p.94
  8. ↑ The Marklands. pp.94-95
  9. ↑ The Marklands, p.68
  10. ↑ The Marklands, p.68
  11. ↑ The Marklands, p.68
  12. ↑ The Marklands, p.95
  13. ↑ The Marklands, p.89
  14. ↑ The Marklands, p.95
  15. ↑ The Adventure Begins, p.30
  16. ↑ The Marklands, p.95
  17. ↑ The Adventure Begins, p.31
  18. ↑ Living Greyhawk Journal #2, p.29

Bibliography

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

Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index

The Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index (EGI) is based on previous work of Jason Zavoda through '08, continued by numerous other fans. The EGI article has a list of sources, product names, abbreviations, and a link to the full, downloadable index.

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
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