Element: Earth

Symbols: Nudity (lack of protection, vulnerability), Chains (bondage, addiction, enslavement), Demon (ego, illusion, base desires)

Upright: oppression, addiction, obsession, dependency, excess, powerlessness, limitations

Reversed: independence, freedom, revelation, release, reclaiming power, reclaiming control

Along with being half goat and half man, the devil has bat wings and an inverted pentagram on his forehead. He is standing on a pedestal, to which are chained a nude man and woman, as if to show that he has dominion over them.

Both the man and the woman have horns, as if to show that the more time they spend with the Devil, the less human they become. The chains make it appear as though the devil has taken them captive. The man has a flame on his tail while a woman has a bowl of grapes on her tail, which symbolizes their addiction to power and finer things in life, respectively.

Looking closely, both the man and the woman don’t look happy. Their individual power has been taken from them, leaving them exposed and ashamed in their nakedness.

House Silverton was a noble house in Neverwinter from Year of Moonfall, 1344 DR, until The Year of Knowledge Unearthed, 1451 DR. They were well known for their (now spent) silver mines and lucky investing once their mines were depleted. The entire Silverton family disappeared during The Ruining, and all members of the family are assumed to have died at court in Castle Never.

House Everfall was created by House Alagondar in thanks to Gathen Everfall after his victories alongside Nasher Alagondar in the Time of Troubles. Gathen Everfall  perished in the Spellplague and his wife Edda Everfall passed in 1449. Their daughter married into House Silverton and bore one daughter before perishing in The Ruining.

Gathen Everfall was a beloved lord and knight who was known for his moral character, marriage Edda Everfall, and close friendship with Nasher Alagondar.

House Everfall was created by House Alagondar in thanks to Gathen Everfall after his victories alongside Nasher Alagondar in the Time of Troubles. Gathen was anointed a knight by the king himself and was named a member of the Neverwinter Nine.

Gathen met Edda Everfall in court when she was brought in to train with the wizards and oracles as a child and she saved his life with her prophecies many times. As she grew up, their mutual respect turned to love and Gathen asked for her hand. Being a true love match, a rarity at court, alongside their individual fame and wide age gap, their wedding was well attended and gossipped about, much to the pairs dismay. After their wedding, they retreated to their private estate in Blacklake District, a gift from Nasher Alagondar himself for their service and tried to stay out of the public eye.

In The Year of Blue Fire, 1385 The Spellplague struck and Gathen Everfall was brutally murdered by a mad mage as he fought to protect the castle. Edda Everfall and the High Oracle were spellscarred and the rest of the oracles in Neverwinter died. Early the next year, Edda Everfall gave birth to Gathen's only child, a daughter named Amafrey Silverton (née Everfall) and shortly after became High Oracle. 

His grandaughter, Vala Silverton replaced Edda Everfall as High Oracle when she died in 1449 and is said to have his eyes. 

Gathen was laid to rest in a mausoleum in Neverwinter's Main Graveyard. His beloved Edda Everfall visited him near daily for 64 years. When she died in 1449, his name was the last word she spoke and she was laid to rest beside him. 

Edda Everfall was born in The Year of the Helm, 1362 to House Keenlight, a minor noble house of merchants and investors in Neverwinter. During her lifetime, she served as a oracle to the royal family of Neverwinter.  In The Year of Blue Fire, 1385 The Spellplague struck, leaving Edda and the High Oracle spellscarred and the rest of the oracles in Neverwinter dead. Edda's husband Gathen Everfall was also brutally murdered by a mad mage as he fought to protect the castle. Early the next year, Edda gives birth to her only child, a daughter named Amafrey Silverton (née Everfall). Shortly after The High Oracle succumbed to her spellscar and Edda Everfall became High Oracle. 

When Edda's granddaughter, Vala Silverton showed signs of the gift in The Year of Stalking Horrors, 1430, Edda took Vala under her wing, overseeing her tutelage directly. Edda continued to faithfully serve House Alagondar until her death in The Year of the Godly Invitation, 1449. Her grandaughter replaced her as High Oracle to the royal family of Neverwinter.

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. 

Lander Silverton was born in 1382 to the Waterdhavian branch of the Silverton line, once famed for their prosperous silver mines, now remembered mostly for depleting them. Though the ore ran dry generations ago, a streak of improbably lucky investments kept the family comfortably afloat. Lander, however, was known less for his fortune and more for his greed, excess, and an ironclad determination to restore his house to its former glory.

Mocked among the Lords of Waterdeep, he eventually turned his ambitions northward. He arrived in the city in 1408 in a whirlwind of revelry, charisma, and coin and quickly caught the attention of the lonely and beautiful Amafrey Everfall. Though he found her tiresome, he quickly recognized the advantage of being aligned with the daughter of the High Oracle. If her presence suggested he possessed a touch of investment foresight, or that Edda Everfall herself whispered counsel into his ear, so much the better.

Lander and Amafrey married by 1410, and in the Year of the Walking Trees (1421), she bore him a daughter: Vala Silverton. With their obligation fulfilled, the couple returned to their respective pursuits and lovers, leaving Vala in the care of tutors and her doting Grandmère, Edda. Lander, never inclined toward family life, focused on growing his wealth—until Vala began showing signs of inheriting Edda’s prophetic gift.

Realizing the fortune he could command for the hand of a true oracle’s daughter, Lander set about arranging the most profitable match possible. Strangely, every engagement collapsed before it could be finalized. Maddening as it was, the setbacks only made potential suitors bid higher, and Lander was content to let the mystery continue.

On the day of the Ruining, he finally believed he had succeeded. He dispatched the family’s loyal butler, Tomlin Helder, southward along the Triboar Trail to fetch Vala’s unnamed intended, refusing to speak the suitor’s identity aloud for fear of her finding some way to slip out of it as she had all the others. He smugly went to court, basking in his victory, only to be entombed in Castle Never with his wife Amafrey as Mount Hotenow errupted.

None of House Silverton are believed to have survived The Ruining.

Vala Silverton was born in the spring of 1421 to Lander Silverton and Amafrey Silverton (née Everfall). Though her parents produced an heir, it was her grandmother, Edda Everfall, the High Oracle of Neverwinter, who truly claimed her. At the sight of the infant’s silver eyes, the shade of Edda’s long-dead husband Gathen, something feral and irrevocable took hold. The bond was immediate and absolute.

Though her home was Everfall Manor, Vala spent her childhood days in Castle Never learning alongside her betrothed Bann Alagondar II and the other children at court. She grew into a clever, charming aristocrat, furthering her education at home by learning to sing, sew, and play harp at her mother's behest as well as receiving training in alchemy and herb lore by the family's butler Tomlin Helder. When her first true vision surfaced at twelve, Edda recognized the awakening at once and began shaping her with unwavering devotion. By fourteen, The Sight had truly manifested, and Edda told King Bann Alagondar I that House Alagondar could have Vala as Oracle or Queen but not both. He chose The Sight, and Vala's betrothal was nullified, much to Lander's fury.

Her parents became increasingly distant figures. Her father Lander, furious he had not managed to make House Silverton a royal branch, pursued increasingly aggressive marriage schemes. Her mother Amafrey drifted in and out of sobriety, loving fiercely if inconsistently, and often aiding Edda and Tomlin in thwarting Lander’s worst designs.

When Edda Everfall died in 1449 Vala was forced fully into her destined role. Veiled by King Bann Alagondar II, she became the new High Oracle of Neverwinter, allowing herself to disappear into the rigid rhythm of Castle Never and her service to an increasingly feckless ruler. Within two years, Savras’s voice went silent and her visions ceased entirely, leaving her terrified and struggling to maintain the façade of her “gift” as Hugo Babris demanded.

Sensing her vulnerability, Lander sprang his trap, a lucrative marriage he had arranged in secret over the course of years. On the morning he revealed his triumph, giving Vala no name, no terms, Mount Hotenow erupted and buried his secrets with him. The wards Edda had paid for so dearly roared to life, enclosing Vala in an arcane cocoon as the city burned. She slipped into stasis, small, still, untouched, while all of Neverwinter fell to ruin around her.

For decades she slept.

Now awakened into a scarred and unfamiliar world, Vala struggles to reconcile the heroic myths she was raised on with the brutal truths before her. Beneath the silks, the manners, and the polished mask of a noblewoman lie deep and private terrors: the fear that without her Sight, she will fail the legacy of Edda and Gathen or be ensnared by the man Lander sold her to if he’s still out there. 

Tomlin Helder was born amid the chaos of Neverwinter’s Spellplague, losing his father, a medic, within days. His mother, Alma, eventually became wetnurse and governess for  Edda Everfall, High Oracle of Neverwinter and the Royal Alagondar family, bringing Tomlin into the opulent but somber Everfall Manor. There, he grew quiet, observant, and skilled in alchemy, herbalism, and healing, becoming the steadfast companion and caretaker of Edda’s daughter, Amafrey Silverton (née Everfall), and later mentoring and protecting her daughter, Vala.

As Vala matured, her father, Lander Silverton, sought to marry her off for his own ambitions, disregarding Edda's concerns over her prophetic gift ending up in the wrong hands. Tomlin, working with the women of the household, quietly opposed Lander—delaying negotiations, forging letters, and using subtle interventions—becoming her guardian, mentor, and protector.

That fragile stability was obliterated when, in a single day, Lander announced he had made a match for Vala, and, as Tomlin rode south to collect him, Mount Hotenow erupted, leveling Neverwinter and killing everyone in it. Tomlin escaped The Ruining unscathed, but many were not so lucky. Seeing the devastation all around him, Tomlin got to work improvising remedies, purifying water, and treating injuries with whatever supplies he could salvage, driven by the same sense of duty and compassion that had defined his life in Everfall Manor.

For eight years he lost himself in the work, wandering the shattered Sword Coast and tending to survivors, until he returned to Neverwinter to found "Helder's Hearth," a modest apothecary known for skilled care and aid, even to those who could not pay. Grief remains a constant companion, though, and when he's not working, he finds his tired feet marching him to the ruins of Everfall Manor to sit in silent remembrance, cradling  the last piece that remains - a small portrait of Vala on the back of a gold pocketwatch, an antiquated trinket commissioned by Lander for the husband he never collected all those years ago.

Recently, a faint blue light has appeared among the rubble where Vala’s room once stood. Though he dismisses it as old age or imagination, a spark of hope persists and, old fool that he is, Tomlin finds himself quietly nurturing the fragile hope that somehow the family he fought to protect may still be out there, waiting to be found.

Miss Tra was a childhood gift from Lander Silverton to Vala, meant to act as a poison detector. During her current travels, muddy and hurt and wishing for simpler times, Vala accidentally summoned her while casting Find Familiar. Lil Miss has been traveling with the party, acting as their eyes the sky, ever since.

Miss Tra has long white fur, teensy paws, loves fresh fish and DESPISES getting wet.

During the Fight at Cragmaw Castle, Miss Tra almost died and lost a wing. She was sent to the Beastwilds to heal on Mirtul 5, 1471.