Elroy Courlander was born in 1847. He married Melissa Mardel in 1875. In 1876 their first daughter, Melissa, was born. In 1877 the twins, Melody and Meryl, were born. Following the twins, Lady Melissa was unable to bear children again.
In 1894, Melissa Courlander married John Alegar. They named their son Meril after one of the twins.
In 1896 Goblins began attacking the town out of the west in larger and larger numbers. Elroy Courlander raised an army for the town’s defense. Among them was Alan Mardel, a nephew of Lady Courlander’s. Alan spent much time at Lisport Manor, and he and Melody became engaged.
The Lisport regiment, under the Earl’s command, was so successful that they decided to drive deeper into the goblin’s territory. They went downriver to Black Stag and east to Brightwood Crossing where they retook the town and the Courlander holdings. They were aided by information from Elizabeth Mardel, who had infiltrated the True Family cell near Fork.
In the summer of 1897, Alan Mardel died in battle. When Colonel Courlander returned to Lisport in mid-winter, this news had preceded him by several months. On the night he returned home, the brooding Melody went from room to room and murdered Elroy Courlander, Lady Melissa Courlander, her two sisters, her aunt Elizabeth Mardel, and the Earl’s two most trusted Lieutenants, as well as some of the servants.
The town was overrun in the spring, and those who survived dispersed to the other towns of West Highland.
Elroy Courlander had a younger brother, Aaron Courlander, who joined the Astronomers. Aaron died with them when the goblins attacked the Astronomers’ castle south of the Leather Road.
Following the war, young Meril Alegar was groomed to restore the family’s glories. The family stayed in Fork, where they lived in a smaller manor near their upscale inn. The family’s treasure vault was lost. Lisport was abandoned, as was Brightwood Crossing. Money was not plentiful, but there was enough in the post-war years.
In 1915, Meril Alegar married Mary Elena Camber. They had three children: Meril II, Elroy, and Elena. Elroy, always sickly, died in 1923 of cold sickness.
Elena eloped with Philip Agew, a well-to-do merchant who often frequented Lisport House, in 1937. Philip and Elena moved to Newhorse. There has been little contact between the Alegars and the Agews. The Agews have since moved to Black Stag.
Meril I had returned to Lisport Manor several times over the years, trying to find the vast treasure that his father assured him was somewhere on the grounds or in the town. In 1927 he went back and did not return. Meril Alegar II and the family servant found him, dead, just outside the old manor, trapped beneath a gargoyle that had fallen from an alcove. Meril Alegar II was twelve years old. He only returned to Lisport Manor twice after this: once to get married, and once to be buried.
Meril Alegar II married in 1939. Their only son was Eldred Alegar, born less than a year later. His wife, whose name is lost to history (she is always referred to as Lady Alegar), died in childbirth.
Eldred Alegar, when he could get away from his brooding father, went to the manor several times, but found nothing to restore their fortunes. Eldred married Miriam Wells in 1962 and devoted himself to her and to the inn for twenty years. Their son Eldred Alegar II was born in 1963, and Meril Alegar III was born in 1964.
As the inn’s fortunes fell, Eldred began again to gaze south to the rumored treasure vaults. In 1978 he began to frequent the old manor again. In 1982 he died from a goblin attack while wandering the old town.
In 1983, Meril Alegar II sold their Fork home and the family—Meril III, his grandfather Meril II, his mother Miriam, and his brother Eldred II—moved into the Lisport House inn. The profits from selling their home left them financially secure, though their status was lessened. Meril II died in 1990. Eldred Alegar II, at 26, was the Earl of Lisport.
Recent History
Eldred Alegar is missing, but his debts are not. Eldred owes 18,959 shillings to Danny Chaverson’s gambling houses.
Eldred disappeared two weeks ago. He didn’t say where he was going, but Meril assumes, correctly, that he went to Lisport Manor. Arn Gallade confirms it, to Meril’s despair. Meril is now going to have to travel to Lisport to try to find his brother. He had planned on bringing Arn with him, but with the player characters coming he’ll leave Arn in Fork.
Eldred went there to find the long-rumored vault. He did find it, and got stuck inside. His despair before dying gave Erisu several points of demonic power.
