Yarin Frostmantle

Yarin Frostmantle was king of Damara in the 15th century DR.

As king, he was considered a tyrannical usurper and a despot who failed to respond adequately to the many threats faced by Damara. He was also very paranoid, operating multiple spy networks and maintaining a private mercenary army to deal with vassals he saw as disloyal or upstart.

History
Yarin Frostmantle was born a noble in the Kingdom of Bloodstone. He bought lots of land and became the richest man in the kingdom, and it was said that this wealth was how he became king in the 1460s DR. It was an open secret that Frostmantle had assassinated the previous king, Murtil Dragonsbane, thus ending the line of Dragonsbane.

The Kingdom of Bloodstone ceased to exist after the Warlock Knights of Vaasa sacked Bloodstone City in 1469 DR,  leaving Frostmantle as king of Damara only.

As of 1479 DR, Forstmantle had reestablished Helgabal as the capital city of Damara. His primary focus aside from defending his legitimacy as king was to fortify Bloodstone Pass against possible incursions from the Warlock Knights.

By 1487 DR, Frostmantle had no heirs and was on his seventh wife, Queen Concettina, whom he married three years previously. Frostmantle had divorced his first four wives because of claims of barrenness. The fifth and sixth wives had been executed by guillotine in the palace gardens: the fifth wife for treason (it was claimed she had taken substances to prevent pregnancy) and the sixth for murder (it was rumored she had given birth to a son whom she murdered in bed). Statues of each of the wives were located in the palace gardens; the statues of the fifth and sixth wives were headless.

Yarin Frostmantle was assassinated sometime in the late 1480s DR by Artemis Entreri, although his advisors attempted to cover it up as heart failure.

Relationships
King Frostmantle was seen as a tyrant king by his subjects. He was also widely believed to be infertile.

He had a poor relationship with the Monastery of the Yellow Rose, although his Minister of Records was a monk from the Yellow Rose.

He was opposed by Spysong, a Damaran intelligence network founded by Gareth Dragonsbane, which sought to undermine his rule and have him executed for his role in ending the Dragonsbane dynasty.

Dreylil Andrus served as Frostmantle's Captain of the Court Guard and Red Mazzie served as his Court Wizard.

Novels

 * Hero