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Dershwin (1367-1429,62)
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Landowner and businessman from the Flood Plains.
1384
Dershwin is awarded a small manor with several hundred workable acres about 12 miles west of Kern Tower in the Flood Plains. Two dozen sharecropper families and several other services families are already established on the land.
Dershwin marries Ilya.
1386
Kergin is born.
1388
A boy dies during birth to Dershwin and Ilya.
1391
Dershwin travels with 15 men-at-arms to the west Flood Plains, joining a proactive makeshift Flood Plains force of around 5,000.
Following the death of Myron III, Dershwin returns home with his men.
1396
Dershwin travels to Ortund to buy favor from the King of Kern in exchange for proposed service against Ertund bandits.
Dershwin returns home a month after a month, having never managing to gain an audience with the King.
1399
Dershwin takes 20 men-at-arms to join a Flood Plains force east of Trepid Mountain.
Dershwin returns home with his men.
1400
Dershwin takes 20 men-at-arms and his son, Dulfen, to join an expeditionary force of almost 1,500 Flood Plains soldiers in Enhold.
Emperor Cyfurrel the Younger leads 3,000 troops across the Casot River near the Enhold Mountains and engages around 4,500 Enhold/Flood plains troops. The battle results in a near stalemate after two days. Dershwin survives the fighting with 17 of 20 of his men. Dulfen excitedly claims his first two kills.
Emperor Cyfurrel the Younger leads his fatigued and battered force against the celebrating Enhold/Flood Plains army one last time, catching them off guard and routing them. Dershwin loses 6 men before routing and Dulfen loses three fingers from his off hand.
Dershwin and his 11 surviving men-at-arms and Dulfen, along with most of the Flood Plains expeditionary troops, return to the Flood Plains.
1401
Dershwin backs a west Kern lord, Lord Merklew, in the King's absence. Merklew successfully reigns in control of the region.
Dershwin travels north to Enhold with Merklew and other Kern lords and swears allegiance to Cyfurrel.
1402
In the face of labor shortages and inability to meet tax quotas, Dershwin sells his manor to another lord. He pays rent for the manor house and 30 acres, employing a single sharecropper family to work the land.
Dershwin leaves Ilya and Nevil at his manor, taking Dulfen and Kergin to Ortund to pursue business opportunities.
Dershwin rents a small warehouse and front office in Ortund and buys a single small sea barge.
1403
Dershwin sails the Flood Plains coast with his sons Dulfen and Kergin buying bargain grain and feed from coastal settlements and farms with silver coinage he acquired in Enhold. The coins are overvalued in the Flood Plains due to a shortage and the requirement of use by the Errfulfel Empire. Dershwin stockpiles the purchased grain in his rented Ortund warehouse.
Dershwin successfully sells off most of his stockpiled grain and feed during the winter. He profits off the widespread harvest and labor shortages in the region- the exact same problem that forced him to initially sell of his land.
1404
Nevil travels to Ortund, joining Dershwin and Kergin.
Dershwin hires an additional boat out of Ortund.
Kergin commands Nevil and two hired hands in the family owned boat while Dershwin commands the hired boat. Both boats buy up grain and feed along the Flood Plains Coast.
After hearing news of a bad harvest in the River Valley South West, Dershwin sends Kergin with a barge of grain to Cantley.
Dershwin experiences poor sales in Ortund but Kergin makes off very well in Cantley.
1405
Dershwin puts Nevil in command of the family barge and lets the contract on his hired boat expire.
Dershwin returns to his manor and wife.
Kergin flees Gent with Anya to Jorra. They live off of the money Dershwin gave Kergin to buy Gent trade goods with.
1406
Unable to justify the spending and risk on another grain buyout with the local Flood Plains economy and labor shortages getting better, Dershwin puts Nevil's operation on hold for the year while awaiting overdue word from Kergin.
Disgraced, Kergin leaves Dershwin Manor, swearing to make right of his losses and travels to Anya and Ilanya at Delco- who he never revealed the existence of to his family.
1407
Dershwin travels to Ortund to release the warehouse he rented and sell his ship.
1418
Dershwin almost refused audience with his son, Kergin. Dulfen convinces his father to meet with Kergin. Kergin informs his family of Anya and Ilanya in Ortund and leave his father with a large sum of Andual gold and Errfulfel coins.
1429
Dershwin dies.
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