Borin Wayward

Borin Wayward was the Lord Protector of the Mountain Realm. He was married to Gloriana Thoren of Goldspire, and the father of Alice, Jaslyn, and Josef Wayward.

In 505 SM, Gloriana allows Esme to poison Borin. Dying slowly and in agony, Borin asks his daughter Jaslyn to suffocate him. She accepts, killing him on the tenth day of the New Moon of 506 SM.

## Appearance and Personality

Borin was a large muscular man with a big smile. He had salt and pepper colored hair and beard, and a rosy face from his alcoholism. Borin was a fair lord that kept the peace, but was widely known for his temper and sins (alcoholism).

## History

Borin was born in Maryere, the Mountain Realm on the twenty-sixth day of the Flower Moon during the four-hundred and sixty-eighth year after the Secession of Man. He is the son of the once Lord Protector of the Mountain Realm, Robart Wayward and Fallen Gardener. He had four siblings: two older brothers, Garth and Rodrick; and two sisters, Sable and Victoria.

On the twenty-first of the Harvest Moon in 471 SM, at age 14, Garth Wayward, the heir to the Lord Protector of the Mountain Realm, died after falling off a horse and breaking his neck. Coincidently a few hours before on the same day, eleven year old Rodrick Wayward, the second son and heir to the title, ran away to become a knight, forfeiting his claim. On the first day of the Hunters Moon in 471 SM, at three years old, Borin was named heir to the Lord Protector of the Mountain Realm.

In 479 SM, Borin met Gloriana Thoren. Lord Robart Wayward explained to Borin that he would one day marry her. Borin told his father that he was uninterested. As years went by Borin became uninterested in everything and began to drink heavily.

In 486 SM, Borin Wayward and Gloriana Thoren marry.

In 489 SM, Lord Robart dies and Borin becomes the Lord Protector of the Mountain Realm.

Borin Wayward built Winter’s Keep in 489 SM, moving the family from one side of the city to the other. Lord Borin Wayward built the Row of Lords in 493 SM to quiet the complaining lord and ladies who claimed they had nowhere to stay since the abandonment of the much larger Sun Keep.

## Recent Events

### A Death at Dawn

A Death at Dawn begins when Borin returns to Maryere along with Lord Falk Osmont, after spending many moons in Kingment. When Falk threatens Borin that he will arrest Gloriana and have her executed for assaulting him. Borin begs Falk to rethink it and Falk agrees, giving Borin and ultimatum: have Alice betrothed to his eldest son Doran or Gloriana dies. Although he did not want Alice to leave because of her illness, he agrees to keep his alliance with the Northern Kingdom of Valley Pines.

When Alice leaves Maryere, no one is happy. Feeling like a failure, Borin attempted to behave like a real lord again. He learned that both Jaslyn and Josef were planning a coup and Gloriana was doing whatever she wants. Feeling undermined, Borin tells his entire family to stop plotting, yet only Josef listens. When he becomes sick and learns that he will die, he blames Gloriana for it. Jaslyn visits him and after a having an episode of madness in front of his daughter, he asks her to kill him, and she accepts.