Liara Portyr (pronounced: /liˈɑːrɑː pɔːrˈtɪər/ lee-AR-ah por-TEER[5]) was a member of the Portyr patriar family, the commander of Fort Beluarian[4] and the highest-ranking member of the Flaming Fist in Chult in the late 15th century DR. She answered only to Duke Ulder Ravengard of Baldur's Gate.[3]
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Liara was a hard-hearted and dedicated leader who held high respect for militaristic order. She saw hardships as challenges for her to overcome.[4]
She admired those who took up the adventuring life.[3] She supported those who operated within her jurisdictional area of Chult and assisted them with overcoming obstacles they faced.[4]
History[]
Liara was born to the well-off Portyr family of Baldur's Gate,[4] niece of Grand Duke Dillard Portyr.[6]
At the age of forty-seven, she was assigned to the post of Fort Beluarian three years before the death curse afflicted Toril.[note 1] During her command, she struck a deal with the pirates of Jahaka Anchorage, ensuring extra wealth for her and her soldiers, along with safe passage for Baldurian vessels.[4] The Zhentarim subsequently heard rumors of this arrangement and sent their agent Rokah to find evidence with which to blackmail her.[7]
When Grand Duke Ravengard became trapped in Elturgard during the city's descent into Avernus in the Year of Three Ships Sailing, 1492 DR, Liara Portyr was summoned back to Baldur's Gate to take the lead of the Flaming Fist.[2] When the Cult of Bane and its secret leader Lord Enver Gortash was reaching for political power in the Gate, the cult targeted Liara and her uncle. Gortash planned to remove Dillard from his seat in favor of Liara with simple threats. She, in turn, was to be infected with an illithid tadpole that would enslave Liara to the Absolute. During the Absolute crisis, Liara Portyr held the title of the Commander of the Flaming Fist Headquarters stationed in the Basilisk Gate barracks. During that time, Blaze Portyr dispatched investigators to tackle various crimes in the Gate, including sending investigator Valeria to a "plague ship" (case #612), a "hand-taking murderer" (case #655), the "mortal injury to the waveservant" (case #657). She supervised the investigation into the disappearance of Lora Bergauz's seven-year-old daughter from the Blushing Mermaid. Liara uncovered a lead, but in the process, she was bewitched by the culprit – the green hag named Auntie Ethel. Liara's mind was clouded and forced her to talk in circles as if completely forgetting anything related to the investigation or the missing child. If Auntie Ethel were to be successfully defeated, Liara would come to her senses, her mind clear, apart from headaches and a vague memory of a fey.[1]
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- ↑ Canon material does not provide a year for the events described in Tomb of Annihilation, however it is understood to take place sometime between 1488 DR and 1492 DR. The earlier date is based on the fact that Port Nyanzaru is stated to have gained independence from Amn nine years prior to the start of the adventure (p 15), which would be 1488 DR at the earliest given the city was firmly under Amnian control as of 1479 DR (as described in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide, p 102). The later date is based on the presence of Volothamp Geddarm, who is promoting the in-universe Volo's Guide to Monsters during the adventure (p 24) but is stated to have concluded his promotional tour and begun a new book as of Waterdeep: Dragon Heist (see pp 5, 24), which is understood to be set in 1492 DR. Unless a canon source states otherwise, this wiki will use this range for events related to this sourcebook. The adventure is also assumed to take place concurrently with or slightly after the events of Storm King's Thunder based on the subplot involving frost giants in the service of Jarl Storvald (p 13).
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Larian Studios (October 2020). Designed by Swen Vincke, et al. Baldur's Gate III. Larian Studios.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Adam Lee, et al. (September 2019). Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus. Edited by Michele Carter, et al. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 43. ISBN 978-0-7869-6687-5.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Christopher Perkins, Will Doyle, Steve Winter (September 19, 2017). Tomb of Annihilation. Edited by Michele Carter, Scott Fitzgerald Gray. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 54. ISBN 978-0-7869-6610-3.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Christopher Perkins, Will Doyle, Steve Winter (September 19, 2017). Tomb of Annihilation. Edited by Michele Carter, Scott Fitzgerald Gray. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 227. ISBN 978-0-7869-6610-3.
- ↑ Christopher Perkins, Will Doyle, Steve Winter (September 19, 2017). Tomb of Annihilation. Edited by Michele Carter, Scott Fitzgerald Gray. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 4. ISBN 978-0-7869-6610-3.
- ↑ Adam Lee, et al. (September 2019). Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus. Edited by Michele Carter, et al. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 162. ISBN 978-0-7869-6687-5.
- ↑ Christopher Perkins, Will Doyle, Steve Winter (September 19, 2017). Tomb of Annihilation. Edited by Michele Carter, Scott Fitzgerald Gray. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 17. ISBN 978-0-7869-6610-3.