The Royal Family of Greystone

The family that has ruled the kingdom Meridia for almost three centuries following its establishment at the dawn of the Age of Mending. The current family includes Queen Regent Isilda Greystone, Princess Selina Greystone, and Prince Boraeus Greystone. The patriarch of the family, King Broghdoff Greystone, succumbed to illness soon after the Underwars seventeen years ago.

The Greystones Remember
The Greystone name has held the throne of Meridia for almost three centuries, and has maintained an overall peaceful and orderly - if not reserved and wary - kingdom. Descending from a family directly impacted by the dark deeds of the Drendal Empire, the Greystones refused to forget the wicked forces that ran free during the Age of Frostveil. This led to slow, if any, diplomatic progress as the fledgling nations of the Age of Mending began to rediscover one another.

The Drow Wars
The most recent King of Meridia, King Broghdoff Greystone, looked to be as consistent a Greystone as his forefathers when he was crowned 43 years ago: a firm believer in the feudal system that had carried Meridia thus far, and suspicious of any society beyond the kingdom’s walls - and indeed, some of Meridia’s own non-human races. These prejudices were quickly abandoned, however, after the initial wave of invading Drow legions that kicked off the Drow Wars. Alliances were forged among the races of northern Manaris, and King Broghdoff ably commanded Meridian forces up until the final months of the Wars, when he became ill and succumbed, leaving his wife Isilda as Queen Regent until Princess Selina marries.

A Kingdom Anew
Queen Isilda had initially been a noble’s daughter from Lumberton, who had developed strong ties with the dwarves of the nearby Staggerpeaks before being courted and married to Broghdoff Greystone. This gave her a practical and open minded application of her authority once the Wars were ended and King Broghdoff passed on: Isilda did away with the feudal model of monarchy, and established the Ministries of Meridia, with the intent to expand beyond Meridia’s previous boundaries into the largely unclaimed territories that surrounded it.