Embro Ambrath

Embro Ambrath is one of the two richest people in Ravens Bluff, and one of the most visible as well. A good deal of the city's import and export is in the hands of his House, and he holds a virtual monopoly on cloth, dyes, and spices. The cleaning services he provides as well are both literal and (allegedly) figurative.

His household guard numbers a good two hundred, and their polished copper scale armour has earned them the name 'copperskins' from the townsfolk. He also keeps a skilled wizard on retainer, a hawkish man by the name of Beregor with good political savvy and a significant amount of arcane power at his disposal.

Ambrath's feud with Lord Blacktree is bitter and widely known, although the two were supposedly close in their youth; what caused the current rift is the subject of much rumour and little fact. Ambrath has no compunctions about throwing massive (for most people) amounts of money at anything that might gain him an advantage over Blacktree; whether his purchase of a Lordship for himself was in pursuit of this goal or simply an attempt to leave a stronger legacy is unknown.

His offspring consist of a single son and some sixteen daughters by various mothers, and while most are unmarried, his two youngest daughters recently married sons of the Kuldath family, which is now his strongest ally. Tempest Rose, the house of Lady Lauren, is one of the only merchants not at least nominally on his side, along with Dandelion House, a competitor. Among the nobility, he has few friends indeed, but the Quelemters and Leorduins have little attachment to the other nobles, and the Indemmers are at least not hostile.