22 Kythorn 1500 DR
Suzail - Several portraits within the
Suzail home of House Illance have mysteriously transformed into a single likeness.
Officially, neither family nor servants recognize the individual newly depicted, which is reported to be that of a young man with long brown hair unbound, dressed in a blue doublet over a white undershirt, with a sword on his hip. Unofficially, the elder Illance heads are furious over the reminder of a foe that bedeviled the family.
Upon hearing news of this event during the most recent of his nightly “informed gatherings'' in Dragonhaven, the sage Farlthast related an anecdote of a slaughter that took place some twenty one years ago at Stag Well, the summertime gathering place of the Illance family. According to the sage, a lone man avoided the watching eyes of a dozen guards, made his way inside the mansion, and put a crossbow quarrel each into the bodies of Lord Rancelair Illance and his son, Meldrauvyn. The assassin butchered his way back out, delivering up numerous servants and at least one house mage to the gods before disappearing “back to
Sembia most likely, there to take payment for his bloody work.”
Farlthast could offer only conjecture as to who ordered the attack; he named a handful of Sembian noble families who’ve long considered the Illances to be mortal enemies, then moved the conversation to other topics of recent interest to his audience.
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