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Message: <blockquote data-quote="johnsemlak" data-source="post: 1267810" data-attributes="member: 7233">The party returned to Winter''s edge and recovered.  However, they weren't given much respite, for it was immediately necessary to prepare for a long-awaited visit by King Robert Boratheon, travelling from Waterdeep wiht nearly his entire House.what follows below is my DMs descrption of House BartheonHouse BaratheonFamily of King Robert BaratheonMotto "Ours is the Fury"Symbol :Black stag crowned and rampant on a gold fieldThe Baratheon Family is heir to Storm's End the fortress outside  - their traditional lands are the coastal lands of Tethyr running from south of Amn up to just north of Calimshan. The lords who hold fealty to Storm's End are known collectively as the Storm Lords. Robert Baratheon has been King for just under 20 years. He sits the Iron Throne (throne of the 7 Kingdoms) in Waterdeep. Storm's End is one of the strongest castles in the kingdom with its massive, rounded curtain wall a hundred feet high and as much as eighty feet thick on the seaward side. The great drum tower is keep, granary, barracks, feast hall, and lord's dwelling all at once. The stones of the wall and tower are entirely smooth and placed so perfectly together that the wind can find no purchase. It sits hard upon a high cliff overlooking the sea, and there is a barred, watery passage through a cavern that leads beneath the castle.Reputedly raised by Durran, the first Storm King, Storm's End was built to withstand the terrible storms that came howling from the Sea of Swords into Shipbreaker Bay. There are many legends concerning the castle, but one at least may be true -- that the children of the stone (dwarves) used their magics in the raising, for the castle walls act as a shield from outside magic.The last Storm King was the first to be defeated and slain by Aegon and his sisters, and his lands, titles, family name and arms, and even his daughter were given to Orys, illegitimate sibling to Aegon, as the first Lord of Storm's End. King Robert Baratheon won his throne after leading a revolt against the Mad King, Aerys Targaryen.(the Dragon King) Their motto is, "Ours Is the Fury."King Robert Baratheon I - the First of his name, the King on the Iron Throne, the King of the 7 Kingdoms of Western Faerun (Westeros)Once the heir of Storm's End and the betrothed of Lyanna Stark (the deceased sister of Lord Eddard Stark) - he went to war with Eddard Stark to rescue Lyanna Stark from where she was being held by the Dragon Prince, Prince Rhaegar in Waterdeep and to avenge the deaths of Eddard Stark's father and older brother Brandon who were executed by the Mad Dragon King Aerys Targaryen when they came south to Waterdeep to plead for the return of Lyanna Stark. Robert Baratheon led many victories on the field and personally slew the Dragon Prince Rhaegar in combat before the gates of Waterdeep.Robert Baratheon was crowned King after the last Targaryen loyalist armies were routed and Waterdeep and Dragon Stone Island were taken.Robert Baratheon was a giant of a man and knight - famed for riding into battle in massive full plate with his families antlered horns on his helm and a massive two-handed warhammer that no other human could lift. He tried to rule justly and fairly but in truth he was a warrior born - not a king and politician. His love of women, wine, and food as well as the intrigues of the Royal Court in Waterdeep proved to be his undoing.King Robert has grown hedonistic and corpulent(fat) since he took the throne almost 20 years ago. His laws are ignored and the peasants and commoners are squashed under the boots of lords who ignore his edicts and who plot and intrigue behind his back. the Kindoms are in truth run by a Byzantine web of corrupt bureacrats and petty lords in Waterdeep. Upon the death of his Hand and mentor John Arryn he has ridden north to ask his old companion in arms Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell to become his new Hand and help him restore order to and rule the Seven Kingdoms.King Robert Baratheon is a tall man almost 7 feet, although his muscle has now turned to fat. His black hair is shot through with grey and he has started wearing a beard to cover up the rolls of fat on his chin.Long Live the King! Other members of the King's family: His wife: Cersei Lannister - the golden cold daughter of Lord Tywin Lannister of Casterly Rock. She is as cunning and venemous as she is beautiful. His children - Prince Joffrey Bartheon - 14 golden-haired, arrogant, stupid and cruel. He is the heir to the Seven Kingdoms and follows his mother Cersei in everything. Princeess Myrcella - 9 year old golden haired little princess. Said to be as beautiful as her mother but kind and pleasant Prince Tommen -golden haired boy of nine. Clumsy, round, eager to please, and of a kind temperment. Afraid of his older borhter Joffrey. Robert's Brothers<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />It is sold of the 3 Baratheon borhters that Robert is the only true steel. Stannis is iron - hard but brittle, and Renly is gold - beautifula and valuable but soft) Lord Stannis of Dragonstone - iron hard lord of Dragonstone (island just south of Waterdeep). Very Very Lawful Neutral. He feels slighted by his older brother the King but remains loyal. Lord Renly of Storm's End - beautiful and courteous knight and lord, He rules Storm's End (and Tethyr) in his Brother's name. I will go into more details on the King;s Court in Waterdeep, the Kingsguard and the other jor and a few minor families, and organizations in later supplements...</blockquote>

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