Giogioni Wyvernspur

Giogioni Wyvernspur (Giogi for short ) was the head of the Wyvernspur, the noble house of Cormyr in the mid–14 century DR, and one of the very few family members who was able to transform into a wyvern.

Description
Giogi wore leather breeches, a purple shirt with a sash and half-cloak, and battered brown boots. His face was far different from the majority of those of his family, lacking the hawk nose, etc., for a softer set of features. Giogi came across as a bit of a fop, but his muscle tone and fighting prowess proved differently.

Personality
Giogi was straightforward, naive, and simple in battle and in life, even more so in his youth. Giogi did not really excel as a tactician, he did compensate for it with his bravery. When faced with overwhelming odds, he simply pulled his foil out and went into combat, especially when his friends or family members, even the ones he disliked, were in danger.

Casual observers often though Giogi to be foppish and foolish. But unlike a big number of his peers and family members, he was kind, compassionate, honorable, and very courteous with women. Due to honest personality, he often missed on irony and sarcasm. He was well versed in etiquette but being around nobles, or faced with exercising courtly traditions left Giogi feeling awkwardly out of place. Because of that he often preferred to stay silent at family gatherings and similar social situations. He often escaped the noble's duties, traveling with his wife, close friends, or just his horses. He often went on long one-sided conversations with his favorite mares.

Giogi's social awkwardness was only exacerbated by his bad luck. Ever since his childhood, he's been in countless misadventures.

Abilities
Being of noble birth, Giogi was privately tutored in horseback riding, heraldry, as well as in the use of fencing foil, dagger, and horseman's mace. He was a talented animal handler, especially when dealing with horses and donkeys.

Giogi was capable of transforming into a wyvern when he was in possession of the mummified wyvern's claw, aptly named the Wyvern's Spur, that was an heirloom in his family. Only one in every generation was capable of this transformation.

Possessions
Giogiani was an aspiring adventurer at one point in his past and he had a full backpack of expensive and sturdy adventuring gear. Part of his outfit was his rugged, and unbecoming for a man of his status, pair of wide-brimmed knee-high boots. The most comfortable pair of boots in the Realms, according to Giogi himself.

Giogi kept his money and valuables in the wondrous belt pouch that turned anyone other than Giogi into a donkey were they to open it (the effect lasted for 1-100 hours). He kept a collection of expensive potions on himself, namely potions of healing and potions of heroism.

When adventuring or on a special mission for the crown, the Wyvern's Spur was in Giogi's possession, allowing him to take on his wyvern shape.

For a period of time from 1357 to 1358 DR Giogi was in the possession of the Finder's Stone, but he did not utilize the artifact's many magics.

Giogioni Wyvernspur also always carried a flask of hard liquor called Rivengut on him. Both he and his wife Cat enjoyed its potent kick.

Relationships
Giogi's awkwardness, longing for adventure, and years of bad luck and misadventures made him a sort of a black sheep among his family. Aunt Dorath Wyvernspur often criticized him and called him a fool in a stern and misguided affection towards Giogi. Aunt Dorath, the matriarch of the clan, raised Giogi from a young age and often tried to dissuade the young man from adventuring in fear of losing him the same way she lost Giogi's parents and Giogi himself shaming the family... It was unclear which scenario was worse in her eyes. Giogiani's favorite family members were Cousin Freffie, and his young wife Gaylyn. A winter past Freffie's wedding, Giogi's new absolute family favorite became his newborn niece Amberlee Wyvernspur.

After a long adventure together, involving a family secret, an evil wizard, and a missing family heirloom, Giogi married a spirited wizard Cat, one of Finder's daughters and sister to Alias.

History
Giogioni Wyvernspur's childhood was pack-full of misadventures. He once released an angry efreet from a bottle that he found in Uncle Drone's laboratory in the Redstone Castle. Another time, he tried to fly off the castle's roof using only pigeon feathers. A traumatic event in his childhood was when he was accidentally locked inside the family's crypt and met the undead wyvern tomb guardian who recognized Giogi as being kissed by Selune (being able to use the Wyvern's Spur to transform into a wyvern). The most traumatic event of all though happened in his adolescence when he accidentally let Aunt Dorath's pet land urchin be eaten by a snake. The event Dorath never let anyone forget. Closer to his adult years, Giogi made a drunk decision to go skinny-dipping in the Wyvernwater... on Midwinter Day.

Appearances

 * Adventures
 * Curse of the Azure Bonds
 * Card Games
 * AD&D Trading Cards
 * Novels
 * Azure Bonds · Cormyr: A Novel · The Wyvern's Spur
 * Video Games
 * Curse of the Azure Bonds (game)