Floshin Estate

Floshin Estate There are few elves living in Daggerford, but Lord Darfin “Longwalker” Floshin of the House of Long Silences is a rare exception. His father, Elorfindar, had a friendly interest in humans and decided to stay when most of the elves left the vale 1,000 years ago. The old elf finally passed away about forty years ago, and his estate passed to Darfin, the oldest of four elven sons. (After his elf wife’s death, Elorfindar sired several more half-elf children.) Darfin’s estate lies between Waterdeep and Dagger¬ford, but he spends as much time in town as he does in the country, enjoying the pleasures of civilization more than the solitude his father desired. A skilled fighter and mage, he enjoys training apprentices, though he is said to withhold certain magical secrets from students who are not elves. The High Road connects Daggerford to Waterdeep in the north (and onward to Neverwinter and Luskan). The home of the Floshin family has stood in stately peace for as long as any human history records. Parts of the graceful structure date back over a thousand years to when the elven empire of Illefarn stretched across the North. Darfin Floshin, the current lord of the Floshin Estate, can recall when Daggerford was founded, and his father, Elorfindar, gave the magic sword called Lawflame to the first Duke of Daggerford. The blade has served as part of the regalia of its rulers for every generation since. Thus, the Floshin elves have been a quiet part of life in the region, as expected as sun in the summer and as certain as spring rain. Few folk in Daggerford have ever stopped to wonder why the gold elves remained in the area. They’ve always been there. The long-lived and wise Elorfindar had been available to the dukes for consultation ever since anyone had been called a Duke of Daggerford. One or more of his elf and half-elf children bought and maintained houses in the town over the centuries, employing families of human caretakers for generations. The Floshin elves had reason to linger. Long ago, House Dlardrageth, elves who mated with demons to gain power, drew their family into terrible acts of evil. To atone for those actions, an innocent member of House Floshin swore to protect the House of Long Silences. This structure in the depths of the nearby Ardeep Forest was the destination of many portals and served as a means for elves to flee to Evermeet. It also gave access to an extraplanar nexus of portals created by elven high magic in ancient times. Elorfindar, a mage of great power, erected wards over the House of Long Silences that would alert him to its use and prohibit the demon-tainted elves from entering any of the surrounding lands. Then, about a century ago, elves of House Dlardrageth entered the nexus from another point, and to prevent them from controlling it, the nexus was shattered. Elorfindar spent the last years of his life trying to coax life back into the portals of the House of Long Silences. When Elorfindar died, the duty of watching over the House of Long Silences and the rule of the Floshin Estate fell to his eldest child, Darfin. Not a wizard of his father’s caliber, Darfin is accustomed to long trips away from Daggerford. He’s all but certain nothing is left to defend at the House of Long Silences.