Hhune House
The power of the Hhunes waxes and wanes like the moon, but other patriar families maintain a healthy fear of them because the Hhunes have powerful connections up and down the Sword Coast that could make life difficult for would-be rivals.
The elderly widow Lutecia Hhune presides over this smallish manor. Lutecia has estranged siblings but no children and faces the prospect of leaving her family home to a detested branch of the family when she dies. To prevent this, she has asked the librarians of the High Hall to search Patriar genealogies for a more acceptable heir.
Lutecia’s request was assigned to a Guild-connected librarian named Virmele who is entertaining bribes from Lower City merchants and underworld figures to fabricate a link to the Hhune family. More than the Patriar estate itself is at stake, for Lutecia’s late husband was an avid map collector and antiquarian whose personal library holds many rarities from far-off lands. Should Lutecia be cheated out of finding a proper heir, it is likely that both her family’s legacy and the secrets hidden in her late husband’s collection will fall into unscrupulous hands. On the other hand, if Virmele’s corruption were exposed, the Guild might be irritated at the loss of a profitable scheme.
Lutecia’s valet is Kaddrus, a strikingly handsome man half her age, sent by powerful nobles in Tethyr to protect the Hhune family secrets, which include a connection to the Knights of the Shield, a secret society.
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