> [!infobox|right] > #### Laeral Silverhand > ![[5E_LAERAL.png]] > > ##### Basic Information > | | | > |---|---| > |![[ICON - bookmark-etch-solid-full.svg]] **Title(s)**: | Open Lord of Waterdeep | > |![[ICON - feather-sharp-solid-full.svg]] **Name**: | Laeral Silverhand | > |![[ICON - handshake-angle-solid-full.svg]] **Faction(s)**: | Chosen of [[Mystra]] | > |![[ICON - house-chimney-window-solid-full.svg]] **Home**: | [[Waterdeep]],<br>[[Sword Coast]] | > |![[ICON - person-limbs-wide-solid-full.svg]] **Species**: | Human *(Chosen of [[Mystra]])* | > |![[ICON - pot-food-solid-full.svg]] **Fav. Meal**: | ???? | > |![[ICON - beer-mug-empty-solid-full.svg]] **Fav. Drink**: | ???? | > |![[ICON - face-smile-wink-sharp-solid-full.svg]] **Passion(s)**: | ???? | > |![[ICON - face-scream-solid-full.svg]] **Fear(s)**: | ???? | > > #### Dates > | | | > |---|---| > |![[ICON - question-solid-full.svg]] **Status**: | Alive | > |![[ICON - heart-sharp-solid-full.svg]] **Born**: | 765 DR | > |![[ICON - coffin-solid-full.svg]] **Died**: | N/A | > |![[ICON - head-side-brain-solid-full.svg]] **Age**: | ???? Years | > > #### Family > | | | > |---|---| > |![[ICON - rings-wedding-solid-full.svg]] **Spouse**: | ???? | > |![[ICON - hands-holding-child-solid-full.svg]] **Children**: | ???? | > |![[ICON - family-solid-full.svg]] **Parent(s)**: | ???? | > |![[ICON -children-solid-full.svg]] **Sibling(s)**: | [[The Seven Sisters]] | > > #### Class Info > | | | > |---|---| > |![[ICON - eclipse-solid-full.svg]] **Alignment**: | ???? | > |![[ICON - crystal-ball-solid-full.svg]] **Deity**: | [[Mystra]] | > |![[ICON - sparkle-solid-full.svg]] **Class**: | Wizard | > |![[ICON - sparkles-solid-full.svg]] **Subclass**: | ???? | > |![[ICON - sparkle-solid-full.svg]] **Multi Class**: | ???? | > |![[ICON - sparkles-solid-full.svg]] **Subclass**: | ???? | > > #### Appearance > | | | > |---|---| > |![[ICON - mustache-solid-full.svg]] **Hair**: | Silver | > |![[ICON - eye-solid-full.svg]] **Eyes**: | Pale, knowing | > |![[ICON - person-limbs-wide-solid-full.svg]] **Build**: | Slender, composed | > |![[ICON - head-side-solid-full.svg]] **Skin**: | ???? | > |![[ICON - ruler-duotone-regular-full.svg]] **Height**: | ???? | > |![[ICON - weight-hanging-solid-full.svg]] **Weight**: | ???? | <a href="https://dioctionary.net/THE+DIOCTIONARY/HOME/Home" class="dioctionary-ribbon-2"> HOME </a> <div class="dioctionary-ribbon">A Brief History</div> - **Laeral Silverhand** is the Open Lord of [[Waterdeep]] and one of **[[The Seven Sisters]]**, daughters of [[Mystra]] and living conduits of [[The Weave]]. Where others wield magic, Laeral exists within it, her life shaped by centuries of study, war, loss, and restraint. Since taking the mantle of Open Lord in 1489 DR, she has ruled not through fear or spectacle, but through balancing power with patience in a city that devours both. Those who meet her often leave with the unsettling sense that they have been understood completely, whether they wished it or not. The Sisters themselves are figures spoken of more like myth than history, scattered across the centuries as protectors, meddlers, and survivors of Mystra’s will. There was a time... in another life, when [[Dio Eldwynair]] stood before Laeral in [[Waterdeep]] not as a passing face, but as a man worn thin by repetition and failure. She saw the mark of [[Beshaba]] immediately, not as a curse alone, but as something cultivated, something shaped over time. She offered no easy answer, no ritual or spell to sever what had already taken root, but she did not dismiss him either. Instead, she spoke of something older than faith, something buried far to the north beyond the [[Ten-Towns]], a force tied not to mercy, but to severance... That meeting though never happened in the latest version of time that Dio travels within. When he passed through [[Waterdeep]] again in 1493 DR, she moved through the city as she always had, composed, aware, and utterly unchanged, but when their paths crossed, she did not pause, did not look twice, and did not recognize him. Whatever had once passed between them was gone, erased like so many other moments that had shaped him alone. To Laeral, he was just another man in a crowded city. To Dio, she remained proof of something far worse, that even the truths he had earned could be taken from the world without a trace.