Lydeth Teulîrwyn, Lon’Törl

Chief Elder of the Sathlîrwyn (Sevensong) Tribe

A 324-year-old brewer, vintner, and former adventuress, Lydeth Teulîrwyn is the silver tongue and golden palate of the Sevensong. She is famed for crafting ivory blossom wine, a rare vintage pressed from night-blooming petals that open only under moonlit rites. In her wandering youth she crossed the Flanaess to learn and trade brewing lore, later compiling her hard-won secrets in the treatise Of Grain and Grape—a text as prized by dwarven brewmasters as by elven sommeliers. Lydeth has now served two terms as Lon’Törl for the Sathlîrwyn and has discovered she rather enjoys the power that comes with conducting the clan’s songs and debates. She openly anticipates assuming the mantle of Garad’a’Besh (Binder of Oaths) when Gilathadar Telva, Lon’Törl steps down in 581 CY.

Appearance & Bearing

Lydeth dresses for court like a toast to spring: layered greens and pale golds, vine-patterned brocade under a traveling cloak of fern velvet. Her hair is dusk-blonde pulled back with grape-silver pins; her eyes carry the bright green glint of ivy after rain. She moves with the graceful certainty of a dancer and speaks in a warm contralto that can hush a hall or rouse a war-camp.

Origins & Rise

• Winters at Starmead: Born to a line of choir-leaders and harvest-masters, she learned harmony and horticulture side by side—song for people, soil for vines.
• The Long Tasting: Decades of travel through dwarven holds, halfling shires, and human river towns; she exchanged songs for recipes, guarded secrets for rare yeasts.
• Of Grain and Grape: Her masterwork blends poetry with process—measurements hidden in meter, temperatures buried in rhyme. Copies are illuminated, coded, and fiercely counterfeited.
• Chosen Twice: The Sevensong elected her Lon’Törl by acclaim, and re-elected her after a season of prosperity fueled by careful trade and better harvest wards.

Arts & Magic

• Bardic College: College of Lore.
• Specialties: Crowdcraft (shaping mood and consensus), countercharm in council, ritual song that reinforces crop wards and way-sanctuaries.
• Signature Spells & Tricks: calm emotions, hypnotic pattern, tongues, charm person, detect thoughts, suggestion, greater invisibility for discreet diplomacy; plant growth via a druidic verse she learned from Elaenda keepers.
• Instrument: A moon-lute strung with stag-gut, inlaid with vineyard runes; the soundboard doubles as a tasting table etched with measuring rings.

Brewer & Vintner

• Ivory Blossom Wine: Petals gathered at moonrise, pressed with silver weights, fermented in hollowed bronzewood casks lined with beeswax and myrtle. Effects at table: honest tongues, softened pride, and a faint glow to the eyes under starlight.
• Guild Web: Dwarven hop-wrights from the Kron Hills, halfling coopers from the Velverdyva River, and one very picky gnome yeast-keeper; Lydeth holds them together with fair contracts and finer hospitality.
• Economic Leverage: Licenses and tasting rights give her quiet sway over merchants and minor nobles; a festival with Lydeth’s pour is a festival that pays.

Politics & Relationships

• Within Clan Meldarin:
• With Gilathadar Telva, Lon’Törl: Mutual respect laced with verbal sparring; she admires his compacts but argues they must be sung so common folk remember them.
• With Thonás Elaenda, Garad’a’Besh: Allies in practice—his patrol calendars and her convoy feasts make roads safer and calmer.
• With Venlathyr Quenlarue, Lon’Törl: Warm but wary; Lydeth supports stronger ties to Celene, yet insists trade and ritual must keep pace with policy.
• Beyond the Clan:
• Verbobonc, Viscounty: Courted guest at civic feasts; she negotiates bonded-caravan privileges in exchange for festival performances and harvest-blessing rites.
• Dyvers, Free Lands of: Appreciates good coin but demands daylight trade and public tastings (no torch-trade).
• Celene, Faerie Kingdom of: Champion of cultural realignment—shared rites, shared songbooks, and posted wardens rather than distant letters.

Personality & Ideals

• Core Belief: “People remember what they sing.” She turns policy into chorus and oaths into refrain so law survives beyond parchment.
• Public Face: Generous host, quick laugh, a talent for making rivals toast each other before they realize they’ve agreed.
• Private Edge: Keeps a ledger of every broken promise and a bottle reserved for apologies that matter.

Magic Items & Tools

• Moon-Pressed Decanter (uncommon). A crystal flask that can, once per day, decant one wineskin of any vintage she has brewed before; the pour carries a 1-hour enhance ability (Eagle’s Splendor) effect on the drinker if shared during parley.
• Sommelier’s Pin (rare, attunement). A grape-leaf brooch; while worn, advantage on Insight (to detect deceit) during feasts or councils, and 1/long rest cast calm emotions without a slot.
• Ivory-Cask Taster’s Ring. Detects poison or disease in liquids by a faint cooling of the metal; once per short rest grants advantage on a single Persuasion check made over drinks.

Notable Deeds

• The Seven Kegs Pact: Ended a brewing tariff war by turning rival guilds into a shared festival—each keg tapped unlocked a clause of the treaty.
• Canopy Choir: Trained mixed choirs of elves, gnomes, and woodsmen; their harvest hymns stabilize tempers during anxious seasons and mask Ranger signals in plain song.
• The Silent Tavern: Ended a slaver safehouse in the Wild Coast with a midnight performance whose last note was the guard’s sleep.

Goals (576–581 CY)

1. Codify the Song of Roads: A set of shared verses that encode convoy rules and trail signals; intended to spread faster than proclamations.
2. Pair Oath with Feast: Every compact signed at the Oath Oak should be followed by a communal table so merchants, Rangers, and woodsmen leave as allies.
3. The Binder’s Chair (581 CY): Lydeth means to take the office with applause already in the rafters—oaths remembered because she taught them to be sung.

Adventure Hooks

• Of Grain and Grape—Missing Leaves: Stolen folios of her treatise resurface in Verbobonc; recover them before counterfeit recipes poison the festival economy.
• The Bitter Barrel: A sabotaged batch threatens a diplomatic feast; trace the tainted hops to a Nulb middleman.
• Choir at the Wailing Halls: Lydeth asks the party to escort a choir to bless storm-broken groves—Temple agents plan to drown the hymn in terror.
• The Ivory Harvest: Moon-bloom thieves target her blossom fields; catch them and discover a slaver ledger hidden in a cask.

Quotes

• “A law you cannot hum is a law you will forget.”
• “We brew for memory, not for forgetting.”
• “Toast your rival—if they cannot meet your eyes across a cup, they cannot meet your terms across a table.”