Vorigast Residence

VORIGAST RESIDENCE Private Residence The Vorigast family are the Waterdhavian success story that all its natives like to believe in, but that occurs all too infrequently. The family made its coin two generations ago in chalk quarries and salt mines, and then by one of its own becoming an adventurer who discovered great wealth but disappeared into the North twenty years ago. Today, this modest one-story house is just big enough for the Vorigasts, and even then they may very well outgrow it. While the household does employ servants, unlike their neighbors they do not have accommodations for them. With the contacts the Vorigasts have made (particularly their friendship with the Jhancszils), local scuttlebutt suggests it may very well be just a couple of generations before the Vorigasts are one of those families vying for the opportunity to be made new Waterdhavian nobility. Layout The house is beautifully maintained, and always stylishly appointed in spite of its (relative) small size. It is also well-known for the blue glass dome that caps its roof, a local landmark. The front door faces Saerdoun Street, and consists of a beautiful carved oak door set with panes of the same blue glass as the roof-dome. Beside it is a much more modest door, with a pewter plaque that reads: Offices of HEDANE VORIGAST The main front door opens into a lavishly appointed entry, with a side arch to the family's salon where they entertain guests in one direction, and a door to Hedane's business office. A hallway hung with fine art leads thence into the great room, with a large dining table where the family eats every evening. The great room's roof is mostly a large dome of beautiful cerulean glass, showing a dance of constellations and stars. Doors off of the great room lead to a family lounge (connected to the salon by another expansive arch) and to the modest family library and study (which are both connected to Hedane's office). At the other end of the great room are doors that lead to the master bedroom, with a passageway into the household baths, as well as a second door that leads to Emeline's bedroom (room 1). A hallway leads away from the great room, out to a back door that opens onto a carefully cultivated gardens, the pride of the Vorigast household, who have graciously granted the Jhancszil household access for strolling or children play at any time they like. The back of the house has the kitchens and pantry, access to the family baths, and two smaller bedrooms for Beralil (room 2) and Kyndene (room 3). Residents & Staff Hedane Vorigast (LN Tethyrian human noble) is the inheritor of the Vorigast chalk quarries and salt mines, farther north along the Sword Coast. His older sister Nuthra was a wizard given to adventure, content to leave her younger brothers to tend to the family business, which suited Hedane just fine. When she disappeared, they inherited her riches, which Hedane quickly invested, helping to push his family into its current sphere of prosperity. Hedane is a man in his mid-thirties, with a melancholy air that comes of a brother who misses both of his dead siblings. He tends to throw himself into his work as a result, leaving Xamelle to tend to the family's social life. Xamelle Vorigast (NG Calishite human noble) is the wife of Hedane, and the daughter of a successful wool merchant from Westbridge. Xamelle's mother hired Nuthra's adventuring company to guard their family caravan, and Xamelle disguised herself as a caravan worker so she could sneak along. She found adventure not at all to her liking, but when they arrived in Waterdeep and she met Nuthra's brother Hedane, she was smitten. Xamelle is congenial and warm, a loving mother and wife. She is also bald-faced honest, although always kind. She and Quenn Jhancszil are fast friends, delighted at how close their daughters are. Quenn is urging Xamelle to let her daughters accompany Reena to her Presentation Ball in two years, but Xamelle is hesitant. Emeline Vorigast (N Tethyrian human noble) is the widow of Indraun Vorigast, the youngest brother of Nuntha and Hedane, who died five years ago in a mine collapse at one of the Vorigast salt mines. She has been through a protracted mourning, but has begun to socialize once again, notably with the batman Revindar, from the Zun residence. No one has had the uncomfortable conversation about what happens when she is no longer a Vorigast, if things proceed in that direction. Beralil Vorigast (LN Tethyrian human), age thirteen and Kyndene Vorigast (N Tethyrian human), age twelve, are Hedane and Xamelle's daughters. The two are fast friends with Reena Jhancszil, often meeting to play in the Vorigast gardens, or at the Jhancszil great hall to learn more from Reena's dancing master. Beralil is clearly very excited about the world of dancing and balls, but Kydene is mostly going along with it because she doesn't want to be left out. Harbon Arl (N half-elf commoner) is a half-elf in his mid-thirties (or at least looks to be) who tends to the cleaning for the Vorigast household. He also tends to answer the door once his daily cleaning schedule has been accomplished (the Vorigasts are a tidy lot, so it isn't so onerous), and also occasionally runs household errands, for which the family insist on paying him extra. Harbon arrives early and leaves after having dinner, returning to his residence in the Cliffsedge Room & Board. The cook Thuene (see Hejlaga’s Boarding House) grew up helping to cook in a noble country estate, and brings those sensibilities to her duties with the Vorigasts. She shows up at the Jhancszil kitchens right about sunrise, to help their cook Yarlo Bramblestone with the day's baking, which she takes a share of to the Vorigast household in time to make breakfast. Once dinner is cooked, she returns to her rooms at Hejlaga's Boarding House, with her husband. If the Vorigasts have company, she may stay late to help serve and clean up afterwards. Story Seeds Sisterly Affections: Hedane steadily grows more and more ill, and his wife is at wit's end. Finally, someone figures it out: he is being fed on by a vampire! It turns out Nuthra Vorigast did not die adventuring...or rather, she didn't stay dead, but was slain by a vampire and raised as a vampire spawn. Now she feeds on her brother, punishing him for claiming what was hers while she searches Vorigast House for her old spellbook.