Halfling is Your Mother
Halfling is Your Mother is a famous inn in Vansreik and the base from which the Shortstack Stranglers operate.12
Founding
Turnip Bellwater founded a halfling gang in his youth, but he wanted to rule something bigger. When he turned thirty, he moved to Vansreik with twenty of his most trusted men, and together they built the inn. Once it was established, Turnip called in favours and used most of the blackmail material he had gathered in his early life to obtain a licence for a mercenary guild, the Shortstacks, the guild that later became the Shortstack Stranglers.2
The inn today
The heads of the three main mercenary guilds of the city, Turnip, Jogard Di of the Warmongers and Donald Whent of the Eagle Brigade, meet at Halfling is Your Mother once every two months, at what is called The Grand Table.1 Halfling is Your Mother is also the second-largest potion shop in Vansreik.1
When the head of a hill giant was brought back to Halfling is Your Mother after Shaila Bellwater's first mission, everyone there was shocked.3
Who can be found there
Many mercenaries can be found at the inn, among them Turnip and Shaila Bellwater, Alveir Greenblade, Cherrybell Bellwater, Frederick Sweetmead, Golbert Brownbutter, Gorthak Tuskcarver, Hector Mc’raa, Jinnaxius Eidrein and Saphir. Chestnutt Oakberry and Wanguff Volter divide their time between the inn and Bellwater Concoctions.4
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In Halfling is Your Mother
CharacterSaphirA tiefling spellcaster rescued as a sickly baby from a hag's hut by Turnip Bellwater, raised as one of his family and now a member of the Shortstack Stranglers.
CharacterTurnip BellwaterThe halfling master thief of Bellwater who founded the Shortstack Stranglers, the largest mercenary guild of Vansreik, and who earned the guild its name by strangling a dark elven high priestess in the Deep Pit.CharacterWanguff VolterA jolly former sailor and pirate who came to Vansreik after stealing his captain's magical rapier, and who is the newest member of the Shortstack Stranglers.Related articles
PlaceVansreikA lawless city inside the Great Crater of Mortenox on the south-western edge of the Empire, grown up around the Deep Pit, whose noble houses, church and rival mercenary guilds compete for the riches buried beneath it.PlaceBellwater ConcoctionsA potion shop in Vansreik owned by Pixus Oakberry, which she has run with her older brother Chestnutt for a decade.CharacterShaila BellwaterTurnip Bellwater's younger sister, a halfling herbalist and archer who left the quiet life of Bellwater for adventure with the Shortstack Stranglers and has become hooked on the Deep Pit.CharacterTurnip BellwaterThe halfling master thief of Bellwater who founded the Shortstack Stranglers, the largest mercenary guild of Vansreik, and who earned the guild its name by strangling a dark elven high priestess in the Deep Pit.CharacterAlveir GreenbladeA wood elf fighter who left his Da’fat-supporting k're, the Long Leaf, for a life of adventure, and joined the Shortstack Stranglers after Dhori Whitefang turned him away.
PlaceDeep PitThe vast pit at the centre of the crater of Vansreik, a dungeon over the ruins of the old City of Mortenox whose entry is regulated by Tickets that the mercenary companies of the city compete for.
CharacterDonald WhentThe founder and high commander of the Eagle Brigade, a former Reik Storms captain who staked everything on opening the Deep Pit to Vansreik and made his guild famous with its first expedition there.
CharacterGabriella the KindA renegade battlemage who opposed the Scarlet Spears in the Rebellion of Twinrivers and now works as a freelance mercenary, searching for the mercenary Balthasar to learn why he spared her life.
CharacterNessa SevenembersA young warrior of the Eagle Brigade, still inexperienced beside the other members but of great promise, who fights in the front line with a war pick.
PlaceRampart RowA place where several mercenaries who also frequent the Grove of the Moon can be found.