The Cormyrean Embassy

The Cormyrean Embassy (Eraré Sabban, Taorahl Drudach, Hook Ward, Calimport) is a foreign embassy in Calimport. While not classified as a villa, low glazed-brick walls enclose the front gardens of this white marble house. At the center of the gardens and circumnavigated by a brick path is a wide fountain of white marble, its basin decorated with the mosaic of a purple dragon. Originally built by a pasha for his homesick Cormyrean wife, dragons and wyverns adorn nearly all aspects of the house, from support pillars to door knobs.

While each of the other embassies here has stylistic and structural differences, all are three stories tall and have offices, meeting rooms, and living quarters for no less than three dignitaries and their families. These quarters can be set to provide private and secure quarters for up to 12 individuals of import. There are also kitchens, pantries, slaves’ (or servants’) quarters in the cellar, and a grand hall wherein many parties occur.

Currently, the fourth son of the noble Illance clan, Jhartos Illance (NE hm F4) and his elder cousin, Captain Mallik Illance (LN hm R7), reside here. Mallik hates Calimport but his duties as the seventh in line for the clan’'s lordship and as one of its few ship owners had him bring his troublesome and dour cousin here. Jhartos, as third in line for his father'’s position, sees little opportunity in Cormyr but revels in the attentions and excesses thrust upon him here in Calimport. Mallik has been establishing trade ties with more honest merchants whose products are salable in Cormyr, but Jhartos foolishly buys into the many sycophants around him and his alliances favor only his “friends” in Calimport, not his family business.