The House of Lisport: ​Background

Lisport was the home of the Earl of Lisport, but most of the family died during the Goblin wars. It was a foul murder, made all the worse not just because the murdered Earl, Colonel Elroy Courlander, was one of the West’s most brilliant military leaders during the Goblin wars but also because it was perpetrated by one of the Earl’s daughters.

Elroy Courlander raised an army from the men of Lisport and the surrounding areas and drove south to protect the embattled town of Brightwood Crossing. During the winter of 1897 Colonel Courlander returned home with his lieutenants to plan for the spring campaign and because they expected an attack against the river towns. That Christmas, Melody Courlander killed the Earl and his two Lieutenants along with the rest of her family.

Lisport was overrun by goblins a few days later.

Only Elroy’s two-year-old grandson survived, and the son-in-law who raised him. Meril Alegar, heir to the House of Lisport, was taken to the family’s home in Fork, where Fork’s walls protected him from the war.

The family has not flourished. Lisport was never repopulated after the war, and the family remained in Fork where they manage Lisport House, the last of the family’s holdings.

The current Earl is Eldred Alegar, who lives in Fork with his younger brother Meril. Both have reputations as carousers. While they are well-liked, it is expected that the family’s holdings will be lost before either of the two brothers can pass it on either to their own (as yet nonexistent) children or to distant relatives in Black Stag.

Now Eldred is missing, possibly due to his gambling debts. Meril needs to find his brother or his brother’s body and find some way of settling the debts his brother has incurred with Sparkling Danny Chaverson.

You can spice the adventure with gambling scams in Fork, goblins on the road, and family intrigues, as desired.