Ethram Valdemar
Seven Dooms for Sandpoint Player's Guide, pg(s). 27 (2E)
The late Ethram Valdemar was the head of the Valdemar family and last living original member of the Sandpoint Mercantile League. He suffered from a lung infection that resists permanent curing.2
Background
In an attempt to overcome death, Ethram became obsessed about a book of poetry called Songs at Sun's Ebb, written by a poet named Vumeshki. The book included poems about a place called Ilvarandin, which the poet claimed was a hidden paradise where citizens would stay forever young. Learning that Vumeshki often took a drug called midnight milk, Ethram began taking it himself believing that it might help his dreaming mind locate Ilvarandin. He secretly enlisted his son Kaleb Valdemar in procuring the substance and became addicted.3
Valdemar died at some point around 4714 AR, and his seat on Sandpoint's council was filled by Hannah Velerin in an emergency election after the Valdemar family's remnants quit Sandpoint and returned to Magnimar.1
Relatives
Kaleb Valdemar, the sole believed surviving son of Ethram Valdemar, returned to Magnimar following his father's death. He returns to Sandpoint only to care for the family's remaining interests in town, and as of 4724 AR most of the town's residents assume he will eventually sell Valdemar Manor.4
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ethram Valdemar's death is noted in Sandpoint, Light of the Lost Coast, which is explicitly not set in a specific year. However, per that book's page 19, Ethram's seat on Sandpoint's town council was filled in an emergency session following his death by Hannah Velerin, whose 4-year term was set to expire in 4718 AR. Barring a more specific reference, this suggests Ethram died in 4714 AR.
- ↑ . “Appendices” in Rise of the Runelords Anniversary Edition, 384. Paizo Inc., 2012
- ↑ . “Plots and Perils” in Magnimar, City of Monuments, 47. Paizo Inc., 2012
- ↑ . “Exploring the Town” in Seven Dooms for Sandpoint Player's Guide, 27. Paizo Inc., 2024
