Mertoi
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A young city Sheriff enters the library searching for books on the Mertoi family. Unsatisfied with the entries he's able to find alone, he asks the librarian to point out any articles that may detail the family's soldiers and wealth. He specifically hopes to learn where the family's wealth comes from and whether they've prospered or dwindled since Arabel's conquest.
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Continues looking.
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The sheriff finds most books to have brief blurbs about the family, speaking of their valiant history of service to the royal family in the past few decades. Their family has been rooted in the military, and had born tactically gifted minds in the two generations that the family had been elevated to the noble class. Their income is derived primarily from mine holdings, light trade, and funds granted by the Crown for military-related services. The only names that come up frequently are that of Sebastian Mertoi, the Lord and first of the House, and his son Winston Mertoi, and daughter Lucretia Mertoi.
More recent texts reflect the family in less favorable lights, depicting them as blind fools who followed the Cormyrean Crown to ruin. Sebastian Mertoi and his son were said to have been slain in the Great War by the treachery of rival nobles, a testament of both his blindness to the broken Kingdom of Cormyr, and the evil and corruption that the City of Arabel is finally free of. His daughter, Lucretia, is said to be dead as well, though the accounts of how it happened appear to lack much consistency.
The Estate in Arabel appears to remain under the control of what is left of the House; those who did not journey with Winston southward during the Great War. They continue to honor the memory of their late Lord; though why they still maintain their holdings remains a mystery.