Teridius Meriet

Historical Data
Teridius was the eldest son of the eldest son of a man whose brother was Lord of Betony. This becomes important down the line. His father being a reasonably successful if otherwise unremarkable imperial merchant Teridius was kept comfortably and became trained in the basics of defence and in the family business.

Life passed relatively without event for him until he was 30 years old. He had by that time gained some renowned for his ability to hunt and capture ships. He claimed to be a pirate hunter or privateer and certainly he hand claimed the bounties on many wanted seaman but rumour persisted that he was in fact himself want to pillage rival merchants. As his career progressed the fortunes of his cousins in Betony were floundering. The persistent problem of piracy was being more pressing and indeed even the ships of prestigious breton nobles had been targeted. Of course the cousin was not left to deal with the issue for long as during a feast himself, his family and several senior nobles succumbed to a sudden and violent spike in disease.

Teridius was the last living male in the line for a time after that and so the rule of Betony passed to him. The high king of high rock was understandably concerned however. Teridius had been little more than a privateer and merchant at the time. Though Teridius made an offer to tempting to decline, in light of his foreign blood and distant relation to the purer line he agreed to go by the Title of Viceroy, head of a ruling council which was to be established on the island, to take a Breton wife and most enticingly to deal with the pirate issue around the island.

The pirates caved quickly, perhaps too quickly for it to have been the result of Teridius’s military might causing a spike in hushed whispers of the pirate rumour. A rumour made more convincing by the fact that only merchants who have not given proper tithe and fealty to the Meriet’s face issue with few remaining pirates around the island. Still Teridius proved a capable ruler and the birth of a strapping first son In Florichen cemented his rule.

A decade later a second Son followed, Cristien, though he was not so impressive as his brother and indeed it was rumoured that he was a product of Lady Meriet having an affair. Though this was vehemently denied a man bearing some similarity to Cris and who had been close to Lady Meriet was keel hauled shortly after Cris’s birth.

Appears In
The Art of the Possible: High Rock