Aridarye Brokengulf

Lady Aridarye Brokengulf, formerly Aridarye Phylund, was a noble in Waterdeep in the latter part of the 14 century DR.

Description
Lady Aridarye was devastatingly beautiful with high cheekbones, sharp features, pale skin, warm brown eyes, and a dazzling smile. Her bell-like laugh was almost her trademark. She had dark hair long enough to reach her waist, but she usually wore it up in a fancy coiffure held in place by a golden headpiece. Often judged younger than her actual age, she was slender and curvaceous, standing and weighing. She favored blues and purples for the extravagant gowns that accentuated her figure. She was rarely seen without her elaborately decorated dagger in its equally ornate scabbard. Many who were the target of her ire said that her eyes flashed scarlet in her fury.

Personality
Aridarye was the quintessential noble, observing every social protocol with impeccable manners and grace tempered by flirtation. In the business world, she had a reputation for good financial sense. She kept her own counsel, never revealing her true thoughts in social situations. Behind the perfect public facade, she was demanding, controlling, and rigid toward her servants, family, and close business associates. She governed herself with discipline and disciplined those she governed. When things were going the way she planned, she indulged in hedonistic pastimes, mostly centered around promiscuity. When thwarted, she calculated her revenge and retribution carefully, waiting for the best opportunity to strike.

Abilities
Lady Aridarye was an astute businesswoman with an eye for market trends up and down the Sword Coast. She was an expert bookkeeper and knew more about that side of business than most nobles bothered to learn (she could also forge documents if needed). She was good at appraising the value of things that other nobles wore or displayed. She was well versed in the gaming pastimes of the rich and could hold her own on the dance floor. Lady Aridarye wielded her beauty, charm, wealth, and business acumen like weapons to carve out more of the world for herself, lying and manipulating people as needed to raise her station.

Possessions
She wore a +2 ring of protection and her dagger was a +1 dagger of venom.

Relationships
Lady Aridarye came to Waterdeep as the consort of a successful trader from Amn and quickly adapted to the noble life in the City of Splendors. After her husband was killed during an apparently shady business deal, she soon married Lord Urtos Phylund I, patriarch of the Phylund family. She had a son by him, Urtos III, and then she was widowed again when Urtos I was killed in by an accidentally released owllbear. Her stepson, Urtos II, was already reported to have been killed on a hunting expedition, so she was set to take over the family businesses and become regent for her infant son, but Urtos II appeared within a tenday of his father's funeral and claimed the Lordship. She was coolly tolerated in the family villa by Urtos II and his new wife Lythis. Lady Aridarye had many suitors, the most notable being Prendergast Brokengulf, a former rival in business.

Other business rivals included the Lords Gundwynd and Ilvastarr. She reportedly had two husbands before the trader from Amn.