Towers of Gold Introduction

Set during the creation of the Breach and the onset of the Orlesian civil war, Towers of Gold is a FRP aimed at experiencing the peak of the Great Game and the affects it would have upon the coming events in southern Thedas. Stylised after the Last Court, each player, high or low, will be given a series of stats and situations per DM response and action/consequence.

This means that as the story progresses, the Inquisition forms and follows the events of the game, with an eventual Inquisitor formed by a variety of randomly rolled characteristics. Players will need to either act against or with this newly risen Inquisition and find their place within the Orlesian civil war, all the while climbing the political ladder and outplaying the others. This FRP focuses more on the player characters than the lands or people they rule or watch over. Keep in mind that the Venatori are also a rising power who welcomes any and all willing to betray their nation for promise of power.

Roles within Towers of Gold are split between Leaders and Independents. Leaders are the high nobility of Orlais, Dalish clan keepers, an alienage elder, etc. Their actions must be done carefully or risk those following them. They have the chance to turn the tide of Orlais or their people.

Independents are given more freedom to choose what they want, their consequences mainly affect themselves or close friends. Their actions, however, can be as far reaching as leaders. They have the ability to mingle with all player rulers, spin plots, and pursue the agenda of their own or of anothers.

Leaders

- Duke/Duchess of Lydes
- Marquis/Marquise of Val Firmin
- Comte/Comtesse of Velun
- Duke/Duchess of Vel Chevin
- Knight-Commander of the White Spire
- Warden-Constable of Val Chevin
- Revered Mother of Val Royeaux

Independents

- Mercenary Leader (Name provided by player)
- Bards
- Chevaliers
- Etc.

Leaders

- Keeper of Clan Tillahnnen (Or your own clan)
- Elder of an Alienage

Independents

- Mercenary Leader
- Favoured Servant
- Rogue Dalish
- Etc

Leaders

- Deshyr (Deep Lord) of local Carta Clan
- Tal-vashoth Warband Leader

Independents

- Mercenary Leader
- Kalnas (Council) of the Merchant's Guild
- Etc

Character name:
Role:
Brief Backstory:
Venatori connections?:

Character name: Anton Lynx-Beaumont

Role: Comte de Velun

Brief Backstory:

The obscure beginnings of the House Lynx-Beaumont mark it as a distinctly mysterious house even among the back corridors of Orlesian nobility. Though many of the nobility within the Great Game claim descent from elaborate lines of cousins of Emperors or the love affairs of Empresses, the Comtes of Velun were given their march not for a feat of intrigue, but for a chance encounter; the squire Jofre Lynx, once servant of a Chevalier, took up the sword of his fallen master during the First Blight, and, in spite of the Darkspawn that now swarmed the Orlesian line, found his way to and liberated the elderly Comte of Velun himself. For his courage, Jofre was taken into the service of the doting Comte at the Blight’s conclusion, making his way to the full honours of a Chevalier. A dashing and brash young man, he fell into the arms of the Comte’s only daughter and heir, Clarisa, whom had remained unmarried for her father’s fear her husband would mistreat her. When the Comte eventually died and she fell into the estates, she immediately took Jofre, an obscure figure to even the most local courts, for a husband.

This immediately set the couple at odds with the Great Game, the prestige of House Beaumont of Velun diminished. Though Jofre fought many a duel against Clarisa’s jilted suitors, the rumours of his seducing her or the two’s lewd escapades bordered on a near constant scandal. Jofre’s distant descendant, Jean, merged the names of his two descendants into the House Lynx-Beaumont. It was a clever rebranding, and, though the gossip of the Court had long since moved on, it was enough to erase notions of scandal to those that bothered to send the small house a passing glance.

Jean died floundering in the mud of the River Dale against Ferelden in a military commission he had plucked from the desperate Emperor Florian in hopes of winning small glories in the field. Comte Anton, his son, ascended peacefully to Velun, and immediately set about doing something no one of his family had ever had the temerity to; play the Great Game.

His strategic love affairs with the Duchess de Montfort in an alliance of both intimacy and convenience, elaborate use of a network of breweries to ship supplies and spies where needed most, and a small mercantile empire within Val Royeaux certainly made the Comte an influential man in the Court of Empress Celene. However, just as his star seemed to be rising, something shocking happened; he announced he had a child. Comte Anton, once the hedonistic pleasure-seeker, had sired a daughter of mysterious lineage.

Though rumours spread to the Duchess, it is unclear who actually fathered young Marie; only that her father promptly dropped everything, including the Game, to retire to Velun and raise her properly. His assets were quickly gobbled up by hungry rivals and richer powers once they came to light, Even as the country descended into civil war around him, Velun remained undeclared; a neutral border march in the far north, blissfully isolated from the fighting of Celene and Gaspard.

However, as news of the Breach spreads, and the shocking revelations begin to shake the Chanty, the Comte has once again returned to Val Royeaux; what his intentions are, and how he intends to act, are the gossip of many a seasoned player of the Game. Rumour insists he intends to declare for Gaspard, and is planning an armed coup in the city; yet others say he has backed Celene, and is preparing to accept her nomination into the Regency.

The masks are donned, the music plays; and the steps, though old, are familiar.


Venatori connections?: None.

Captain Benedict

Mercenary Captain

The eventual Knight-Commander came to the world of Thedas in the city of Val Royoux, in the hands of rather unsuccessful duo of silk traders. The childbirth had been a long and difficult one, no one could oppose that. After twenty hours of hard labour , the mother of the child managed to give birth to not one, but two children, the first was a girl, looking like a perfect child, as it should be, but the second one however? The boy was rather pale and quiet, no crying, no movement. There was panic, speculation amongst the folk whom had participated and observed the supposed birth of two lively children. The mother prayed ever so hard to the Maker, to Andraste herself, to allow this child to live, even if it had to be inside of a monestary. And so a naught moment later, it had seemed like the Maker had heard her prayers, as the young boy began to cry. As she and her loved ones cried with joy, she had realized what promise she had made to the Maker and Andraste. The boy would live his life in the service of the Maker, despite the protests of the father. Before he was sent to the White Spire, the couple gave the boy a name.
Theobaldus de Tefynt

The years had gone by the speed of an eagle, the days within the service of the Mothers of the Chantry, the endless mopping of the floors, the evergrowing lust to become something more than a simple Chantry Clerk, all of it went by. Theobaldus had grown into a pious, respectable, and a healthy man. The Chantry Mother whom overlooked his neverending service to the Maker clearly saw that being inside a Chantry was no life for a boy, not this one. She gave him the offer to join the legendary Templars, which he spared no second thoughts with. Later that very day, he was initiated into the Order.

The time prior his vows was certainly a hard one, he was never the best with the sword, but his faith overcame all others in the same 'class'. The endless hours within the Chantry in his childhood had made him able to utter prayers in hours long a time. The day of his vows came atlast, a day cherished by all loved ones. Even his family was there, his twin sister whom he had never met. But he loved her nonetheless. After the vows had been taken, the family gathered to celebrate, having a fine meal where they had exchanged histories between one another. His sister and him spoke for several hours, they had so much to share and tell with eachother. But the time eventually came where he had to go, but alas, something else happened. Two superior Templars had approached the family as Theobaldus were about to leave, with intent of bringing his sister into the Circle for suspicion of being a potential magic user. Which was proved true later.

As the time went by, eventually Theobaldus and his sister, Theynith, had risen through the ranks of both the Circle and the Templar Order, both displaying great signs of faith and execution of action. As a Templar - Lieutenant, Theobaldus, and some other Templars, was given the mission to escort Senior Enchanter Theiny and Enchanter Gregli to the Circle of Magi in Fereldan, where they'd aid in the restoration of Kinloch Hold after the horrific event of the Fifth Blight. The journey went as planned until they had gone past beyond the Frostback Mountain. They had reached a small valley, where there was several Apostates holding camp. They seemed to be waiting for someone, but who? Theobaldus quickly found out as one of his fellow Templars was struck down by a fiery ball of fire from behind. They had been betrayed. With his faith guiding him, he shouted out prayers, which all Templars had memorized during their Vigil, alongside his fellow Templars. Theobaldus led a devastating counter-attack against the Apostates, enraged by this betrayal, by his twin sister! By the end of the encounter, Theobaldus and two other Templars were the only ones standing on their feet. The Knight - Lieutenant had impaled the throat of his sister with the sharp end-point of his shield, having seen her suffocate and drown in her own blood.

After that incident, his zeal for the Chantry and the Templar Order grew even greater, he had been given the rank of Knight - Captain after he had dealt with the Apostate infestation within the Frostback Mountains, led by his former twin sister. A good decade went by before his coronation to the rank of Knight - Commander within White Spire occurred. Theobaldus was seen as reasonable man, a man of un-wavering faith, but with the rank of Knight - Commander, he had to appear stoic to maintain respect from those under his wings.

With the recently eruption of the Breach, alongside the extreme vicious war between the Templars and the Mages, Knight - Commander Theobaldus remains within the White Spire, gathering whatever strength he could muster. To bring back balance and stability, Theobaldus have sent out a summon for all Templars that still holds any type of sense and loyalty to the Chantry, he need every shield he can get within The White Spire. With the death of the Divine and the Breach, the Knight - Commander must begin to dance the foul dance of the Great Games within the nobility of Orlais, if he is to gain support from either of the claimants to the throne to deal with the Breach and the "heretics".

Venatori connections?: When he went through the possessions of his late sister, Teynith, he found some envelopes which bore the Imperium mark on it. It had been from a distant cousin of theirs in the Tevinter, apparantly. A nation of heathens and aberrations, so he bore it no mind.