Amafrey Everfall slipped into the world beneath a shroud of grief. Her mother, Edda Everfall newly Spellscarred, newly widowed, and frantic with fear of her own power, could hardly look at the infant who shared none of her fallen husband Gathen’s features. Amafrey spent her early years cared for not by family but by Alma Helder, her governess, and Alma’s quiet young son, Tomlin Helder.
Amafrey grew into a striking but volatile young woman. Haunted since childhood by nightmares of burning in a great fire, she plunged headlong into drink, dreamer’s dust, and lovers indiscriminately, desperate for any diversion that might drown her restless mind. Her one grounding force was Tomlin, whose steady companionship kept her from slipping entirely into ruin.
When Lander Silverton arrived in Neverwinter in 1408, Amafrey was an easy target: beautiful, lonely, and heir by blood to the High Oracle of Neverwinter. Lander’s charm and coin dazzled her, and the pair were wed by 1410. Their marriage, however, unraveled almost immediately, marked by mutual infidelity, extravagant revelry, and long stretches of avoidance. Only at Edda’s insistence did Amafrey produce an heir, and in 1421 she bore her daughter, Vala Silverton.
Motherhood steadied Amafrey only briefly. When Edda’s long battle with her Spellscar finally ended, and she succumbed to its ravages, the loss of even this strained relationship shattered Amafrey. In her grief, she found even more opportunities for the Dreamers Dust Lander always kept on hand, until she slipped into a permanent, drifting haze from which she rarely emerged. Amafrey became a ghost within her own home, beloved by her daughter, tended by Tomlin, but largely lost to herself.
Amafrey perished alongside her husband during the Ruining of Neverwinter, entombed in Castle Never when Mount Hotenow erupted. No member of House Silverton is believed to have survived.
After waking, Vala has heard that the dead still move through Castle Never, shambling corpses that are simply locked behind the great gates and set to the side while the rest of the city is dealt with. It is eating her alive that her mother is trapped, even in death, in the gilded cage of Castle Never with Vala's Papa, a grasping schemer who never loved her.