Owaren Kendrick was a prince of the Kendrick Dynasty of the Moonshae Isles who died young in the late 15th century DR.[1][2]
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Owaren was born in the Year of the Plagued Lords, 1471 DR, and was the youngest son of High King Derid Kendrick of Alaron.[1]
As of the Year of the Ageless One, 1479 DR, the boy had been kidnapped by Lady Erliza Daressin and taken to the island of Snowdown where he was held as a hostage to ensure that High King Derid did not try to wrest control of Snowdown from her and her Amnian allies. He was held in a tower within Caer Westphal.[1]
Owaren was killed while attempting to escape the castle, and his death roused the sympathies of High Lady Ordalf of Sarifal, promoting the combined forces of Sarifal and Alaron to unite and expel the Amnian occupiers of Snowdown in the early 1480s DR. Owaren was subsequently buried in a tomb near Caer Westphal, with his grave being tended by druids and becoming a place of pilgrimage by the turn of the 16th century DR.[2][note 1]
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- ↑ Canon sources do not provide specific years for the connected sequential events of the death of Owaren Kendrick, the expulsion of Amn from Snowdown, the death of Erliza Daressin, the start of the Rusting, and the birth of Caitlyn Kendrick. These events are discussed in Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn (set 1501 DR), but this sourcebook gives conflicting timeline information: it implies at different points that these events occurred "a century ago" (p. 178), "decades" ago (p. 178), and "two decades" ago (p. 172). Given the ambiguity, this wiki elects to use the version of the timeline that is most consistent with prior editions ("two decades"). Owaren Kendrick therefore must have died between 1479 DR (his last prior mention in a canon source, Dungeon #196: "Backdrop: Moonshae Isles") and 1486 DR (the latest possible year for which Caitlyn Kendrick's quote on p. 179 of Adventures in Faerûn can be true: "[Owaren] died before I was born, and I'm already older than he ever got to be": Owaren would be 15 if he died in 1486 DR, while Caitlyn would be 15 in 1501 DR if she was born later that same year). Thus, this wiki will use "early 1480s DR" to refer to the dates of the above events. Note that this contradicts the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide (assumed to be set 1489 DR), which states that Erliza Daressin and Amn still occupy Snowdown. This discrepancy could be attributed to an unreliable narrator for that section of the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide: the information is attributed to an in-universe book, Fifty Years at Sea, Volume the Third, by Gardorra Burr. Regardless, the timeline derived from the more recent Adventures in Faerûn (published 2025) takes precedent over the older Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide (2015) per this wiki's Canon Policy.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Shawn Merwin (November 2011). “Backdrop: Moonshae Isles”. In Steve Winter ed. Dungeon #196 (Wizards of the Coast) (196)., p. 13. Archived from the original on 2015-11-03.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jason Tondro et al. (2025-11-11). Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 178. ISBN 0786969954.