The Zauviir Family

The Zauviir family are a lineage of drow who can trace their ancestry back to nearly the first drow to leave the Underdark and populate Caldera in Shadebourne. They are jewellery magnates who specialise in diamonds. They live in the city of Bronze Harbour, but keep a townhouse on the sixth tier of Shadebourne where they stay in the summer months.

The family crest of the Zauviir family is three teardrop diamonds and two crossed arrows.

All of the Zauviir family are NPCs, acted and created by JD.

## **Known Family Members**

#### **Ardusine Zauviir**

Ardusine is the current head of the Zauviir family, husband of Bowyer Zauviir and father to Trielo, Iymril and Iyreia. When the party rescue Iymril from thugs in an alleyway, Ardusine is extremely grateful and invites the party as his guests to the masquerade ball of Haitius Valentinian. He seems to be a generous man, although perhaps a little conceited; he assumes Astra is flirting with him when the bard is actually describing his shock at how bad Iymril is at playing the lute. JD has described him (off-camera) as looking like the actor George Clooney but with longer hair.

#### **Bowyer Zauviir**

Bowyer is Ardusine's wife. She greets the party when they are invited to her home and is also grateful that they saved her child, but not much else is known about her.

#### **Iymril Zauviir**

Iymril is a young drow with curly white hair, freckles and beautiful features. They use they/them or he/him pronouns. They appear to enjoy drinking heavily, and have little respect for the lower classes, sneaking into the lower tiers disguised as one of them in order to enjoy the cheap drink available in the taverns. The party rescue Iymril and their bodyguard Ezio from a group of four thugs attempting to mug them for Iymril's diamond jewellery in an alleyway in the third tier of the city. Iymril sheepishly thanks the party for rescuing them when they visit the Zauviir's home in Shadebourne, and seems friendly with them. They later go into their bedroom and play the lute very badly, to which Ardusine remarks they have been 'playing' the instrument for a very long time.

#### **Iyreia Zauviir**

Younger sister to Iymril, Iyreia is far more dignified than her sibling. She first meets the party when she comes to their barracks with her father to thank them for saving Iymril's life. She is described to be beautiful with long white hair. She offers for the party to borrow from her wardrobe for outfits to wear to the masquerade ball, and then after to take them shopping for something tailored instead.

#### **Treilo Zauviir**

Treilo is the third Zauviir sibling, and the oldest. She is not present in Shadebourne when the family meet the party.

t family are a lineage of humans who rule the large city-state of Mirrortail on the Isle of Glass as a monarchy. Whilst Mirrortail is a relatively new city compared to many of the others in Caldera, the family line of Argentfort has origins and ties to the city of Riven and can be traced back to Riven's earliest settlers.

The family crest of the Zauviir family is three teardrop diamonds around two crossed arr

At least one family heirloom exists, in the form of a rapier sword carried by Prince Vanden.

## **Known Associations**

### Associated People

* The Zauviir family have a human bodyguard by the name of Ezio. He is tall, bald-headed, and seems very friendly and down to earth. Iymril refers to Ezio as an ugly brute, and in return Ezio refers to Iymril as a dumb idiot. They seem to care about each other. Astra and Ezio have a good conversation whilst waiting for a carriage to collect Iymril from the barracks.

* Haitius Valentinian - a friend of the family, who is hosting the masquerade ball in Shadebourne

## **In the Series**

The party first encounter the Zauviir family when Boblem overhears a commotion from an alleyway in the third tier of the city of Shadebourne, when returning from a shopping trip to the Shiny Coin with Astra, Cassian and Elyse. The four delve into the alleyway and interrupt a mugging where four thugs are attempting to steal the diamonds from Iymril after badly beating them and Ezio.

Through a series of manoeuvres and intimidation techniques, the party are able to defeat the thugs without engaging in violent combat, and simply scare them away to rescue Iymril and Ezio. They collect the two and bring them back to their fourth-tier barracks in order to tend to their wounds. Together with Sariel and Vanden they are able to look after the both of them, and Ezio goes with Astra to fetch guards and a carriage whilst the party learn more from a very drunk Iymril about who they are.

The next morning, the party meet Ardusine and Iyreia who are extremely grateful for what they've done, and invite the party to a masquerade ball as thanks. They also invite the party to stay with them in their townhouse, and later give the party a tour there, where they finally meet Bowyer.