Connects to: 13.08, 29.14.06, 29.14.46, 33.16, 40.06 and the City of Shuttered Windows.
The home of Alvise Ettienne and his family, the Ettiennes.
Subhex:
13.06.01 (The Living Arrangements at Ettin Castle): the castle is riven with cliques based on the three heads.
The Living Arrangements at Ettin Castle
Three households are joined as one in Ettin Castle - those of Ettienne, Castaneu and Vantisse. Each of the castle’s servants, pages, knights and so on belongs to only one of the households. Furthermore, for the most part none of them will acknowledge the existence of the other households. As a result, the lord of castle is cooked three meals every night, one from each house; the castle is stocked with over twenty different privies, each aligned to a different house, since the muckers refuse to clean the shit of those not in their house; there are three stewards, three training courtyards for three retinues of knights, and so on.
The households compete endlessly for primacy. If the lord Ettienne samples more of one dish than the other, then it will be seen as a great victory for one house over the other. If one band of knights brings in more loot than the other, that too will be a victory.
In the lord’s apartments reside two spouses: Serina Castaneu and Dovan Vantisse. The wife of Alvise Ettienne sadly died shortly after the forging of the three houses, and her replacement now dwells in Alvise’s own chamber. The young Serina, deprived of her husband, seeks companionship from Dovan, but he is focused solely on the task of revenge. There are three whom he marked as his enemies: Severard of the Seven Chins, the sorceress known as the Lady and Alvisse Ettienne himself.
Of the three, two are now believed to be dead. And rumor has it that Dovan has a plan to manipulate the byzantine politics of the castle in order to finally have vengeance on Alvise Ettienne as well.
Hooks:
- Did Dovan Vantisse have a hand in the death of Severard and/or the Lady?
- What is Dovan’s plan to get revenge on Alvise?
- Do the stewards of the three houses have any plots to advance their own causes?
Connections
- One of the factions has acquired a tub of moon nut perfume (50.02), assuming that with so many noses ettins will be particularly vulnerable to it.
