Warbal Bramblebrasher

*This impeccably dressed goblin woman wears understated silver jewelry to accent her pristine robes. She gives a warm, measured, diplomatic smile to most anyone she meets.*

Warbal Bumblebrasher is Stios esteemed ambassador from the Bumblebrasher tribe, which has lived for several generations near (and more recently within) Ifauz Citadel. By far the Bumblebrasher with the most wanderlust, Warbal sates her appetite for knowledge, refinement, and diversity of friends in her new home in Stios. At the same time, she gives back to the tribe that birthed and raised her by acting as its representative, advocate, and friend in all town matters that might concern or benefit the goblins.

Warbal knows that she is the single personal link that most Stios residents have with the goblins of Savaria's wilds, many of whom have been outright hostile in the past—memories of the Chitterblood Wars still linger, even though that conflict ended many years ago. As such, Warbal sees it as her personal mission to put forward a good face for her people to everyone in town she meets, and to have deep discussions with them both to advocate for goblins as a whole and to gently show the townspeople that many goblins are not contributing to a violent legacy.

Wide-eyed and highly intelligent from a young age, Warbal dreamed about acquiring knowledge of the outside world. Despite these yearnings, Warbal was too dedicated to her people to ever consider leaving the tribe and setting out on her own. Eventually, when the Hellknights abandoned the citadel entirely, the Bumblebrashers moved into the keep and established themselves in a defensible area in its vaults. At this point, Warbal's curiosity and wanderlust peaked as she scoured the keep for any and all tomes the Hellknights left behind. The precocious young goblin drank in all of the history and Hellknight protocols that she learned from her patchwork library, even though the monsters that quickly came to occupy the keep threatened her life every time she left the tribe's safety.

Warbal might have festered in misery and unfulfilled potential for many more years were it not for the intervention of the Bumblebrasher's new chief, Warbal's older cousin Helba. Recognizing Warbal's unhappiness as a rank-and-file tribe member— even if the whip-smart young goblin did not herself understand why she was always so morose—Helba began to wrack her brain for a solution. Sending a lone goblin, let alone one without any knowledge of the world outside her tribe, away from the protection of the group was incredibly dangerous, Helba knew. But it also wasn't an option to force Warbal into a life that left her unhappy and unfulfilled. Finally, the goblin chief hit upon a plan, and to help her bring it about, she tracked down a trusted member of the merchant caravans that once traded with the Bumblebrashers on the One-Eyed Incline—a kindly half-orc bard and tailor named Torash, who still occasionally visited the goblins in the keep when he dared the journey.

Helba and Torash traveled to Stios, where the half-orc was a respected member of Shelyn's Smile, the town's artisans' guild. There, Torash used his connections to gain an audience for Helba with the Stios town council, which was more than happy to meet with the chief of a nearby kindly goblin tribe the councilors never knew existed. She got the council to agree that the Bumblebrashers would provide crafted goods to Stios, and in exchange, the town would fund an advocate who would speak on the goblins' behalf in all related town matters. Thus, the job of Bumblebrasher ambassador to Stios was born.

When Helba returned to Ifauz Citadel, she officially designated Warbal as the tribe's first ambassador to Stios. Ecstatic, the eager goblin immediately moved into town, where the council funded a modest but comfortable flat for her and provided her a living stipend—the lion's share of which she spends on books and occasional holiday forays to other Savarian towns. For the past several years, Warbal has performed her duty wisely and graciously, learning much from her position of responsibility even as she has experienced culture shock from all the differences in the environment around her. Warbal has nonetheless scored many diplomatic successes both for the Bumblebrashers and for the townspeople. The latter, who value freedom and self-sufficiency over all, grow more impressed with this quietly intelligent and kind goblin woman every day.

**Recall Knowledge - Humanoid (Society)**: DC 25

**Unspecific Lore**: DC 23

**Specific Lore**: DC 20

**Source** *Pathfinder #145: Hellknight Hill pg. 83*

Perception +3; darkvision

**Languages** Common, Goblin

**Skills** Diplomacy +8, Goblin Lore +9, Nature +5, Religion +5, Society +7, Survival +3

Str -1, Dex +2, Con +2, Int +2, Wis +0, Cha +3

**Items** religious symbol of The Lady of Dreams, scholar's robes, book titled History of the Bumblebrashers in Savaria

**AC** 15; Fort +5, Ref +5, Will +5

**HP** 20

**Goblin Scuttle**  ; **Trigger** A goblin ally ends a move action adjacent to Warbal. **Effect** Warbal Steps.

**Speed** 25 feet

**Melee**  fist +5 [+1/-3] (agile, finesse, nonlethal, unarmed), **Damage** 1d4–1 bludgeoning**Melee**  heavy book +0 [-5/-10], **Damage** 1d6–1 bludgeoning**Ranged**  heavy book +3 [-2/-7] (thrown 10 feet), **Damage** 1d6–1 bludgeoning