Bryon Kendrick was the king of Corwell in the early-to-mid–14th century DR. He was the father of Tristan Kendrick.[1]
Description[]
King Bryon was a strong man with dark hair and a long black beard streaked with gray. His face began showing signs of old age even when he was still quite young.[1][2]
Personality[]
He was listless and brusque. He was relatively polite to visitors, but cold toward his own son.[2]
Possessions[]
He wore a steel mail shirt into battle that had also once been worn by his father, and which he in turn gifted to his son.[6]
Relationships[]
He was a member of the royal Kendrick family.[1]
Bryon was never able to recover from the death of his wife, Addee Kendrick.[7] Adding to Bryon's despair, he was consistently disappointed in the actions of his son, Prince Tristan.[1]
History[]
King Bryon was a warrior in his youth. He fought against the Northmen[2][6] and spent nearly twenty years questing for the Sword of Cymrych Hugh across all the lands of the Ffolk.[8]
His reign in Corwell began in the Year of the Fallen Throne, 1319 DR, after the lords of Corwell voted to recognize him as their ruler.[5][note 1] His subjects enjoyed low taxes and his vassals were given a great deal of independence to rule as they saw fit.[5]
In the 1320s DR, his forces helped to relieve King Dagdar of Moray when Northmen threatened to overtake his island.[2][9]
His son Tristan was born in the Year of the Striking Hawk, 1326 DR, which preceded nearly two decades of peace in Corwell.[7][3] A few years later, he adopted Robyn Moonsinger as his ward at the request of her mother, the Great Druid Brianna Moonsinger. He held onto a book and a staff to give the girl once she was an adult, and kept her heritage a secret for many years.[8]
In the Year of the Marching Moon, 1330 DR, Bryon's young wife died, causing the king to fall into a deep and lasting depression.[7][3] When he hosted Elminster at his castle of Caer Corwell in the Year of the Highmantle, 1336 DR, the sage found him to be less than pleasant and still reeling from his grief.[2][3]
By 1345 DR,[10] Bryon's powerful presence had descended into a weakened state of discord.[1] He was badly injured by Kazgoroth when the Northmen attacked Caer Corwell during the Darkwalker War that year,[11] although he was able to have himself strapped into the saddle of his warhorse to lead the final rout of the enemy.[12] He was assassinated the following year by Razfallow on the orders of Cyndre.[13]
Appendix[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Bryon's reign is stated to have lasted 27 years in the novel Black Wizards. Given that novel was subsequently dated to the year 1346 DR, his reign can be determined to have begun in 1319 DR.
Appearances[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Douglas Niles (May 1987). Darkwalker on Moonshae. (TSR, Inc.), p. 26. ISBN 0-88038-451-4.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Douglas Niles (November 1987). Moonshae. Edited by Mike Breault. (TSR, Inc.), p. 38. ISBN 0-88038-494-8.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Brian R. James (December 2007). “Grand History of the Realms: The Moonshaes”. Dragon #362 (Wizards of the Coast). Archived from the original on 2009-06-01.
- ↑ Douglas Niles (May 2011). Darkwalker on Moonshae. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 1. ISBN 978-0-7869-5958-7.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Douglas Niles (May 2011). Black Wizards. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 2. ISBN 978-0-7869-5970-9.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Douglas Niles (May 2011). Darkwalker on Moonshae. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 6. ISBN 978-0-7869-5958-7.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Douglas Niles (November 1987). Moonshae. Edited by Mike Breault. (TSR, Inc.), p. 37. ISBN 0-88038-494-8.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Douglas Niles (May 2011). Darkwalker on Moonshae. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 17. ISBN 978-0-7869-5958-7.
- ↑ Douglas Niles (November 1987). Moonshae. Edited by Mike Breault. (TSR, Inc.), p. 41. ISBN 0-88038-494-8.
- ↑ Brian R. James, Ed Greenwood (September 2007). The Grand History of the Realms. Edited by Kim Mohan, Penny Williams. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 139. ISBN 978-0-7869-4731-7.
- ↑ Douglas Niles (May 2011). Darkwalker on Moonshae. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 16. ISBN 978-0-7869-5958-7.
- ↑ Douglas Niles (May 2011). Darkwalker on Moonshae. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 22. ISBN 978-0-7869-5958-7.
- ↑ Karen Wynn Fonstad (August 1990). The Forgotten Realms Atlas. (TSR, Inc), pp. 43–45. ISBN 978-0880388573.