Ashale

Ashale is the legendary founder of the city of Lebis. According to legend she and her people the Cirian escaped the "Eight Islands of the Snake People" where they had been held as slaves. Scholars believe these to be references to the islands of Trumm and the Seven Sisters. It is known that a people known as the Yuan-Ti existed there, and that these people worshiped snakes. Some scholars believe the Yuan-Ti were snake-like themselves, but this claim is disputed. 
The tale of Ashale holds that the Yuan-Ti had subjugated and enslaved the Cirian tribe. Since the Cirian were renowned shipbuilders they had forced them to built a massive fleet, with which the Yuan Ti would attack the lands surrounding them. However, Ashale tricked the Yuan-Ti into allowing the Cirian to built the fleet in a single port, so that they all remained united. She timed it such that all the ships of the fleet would be finished on the same day, but fooled the Yuan-Ti into thinking the completion of the fleet had been delayed by a week. When the Yuan-Ti were busy with a major ritual her people stole the fleet, which had in fact been completed, and sailed south to the island of Lebis. There they built a strong fortification and defeated the Yuan-Ti's attempt to punish them three years later. 
Modern scholars are divided on the historicity of Ashale. Some insist that the story is largely true, pointing to the linguistic evidence of the Cirain tribe's existence and founding of the city, and the strong suggestion in various sources that the Yuan-Ti faced many slave revolts. Others say that Ashale is merely a latter invention to explain the founding of the city, in the absence of any real knowledge of the founding of Lebis. 
What species Ashale supposedly belonged to is also in dispute. The current citizens of Lebis hold that she was a human, and have erected statues of her to this effect. But many scholars believe that if she existed she was likely a halfling. Lebis was probably once a halfling settlement, and the current halfling population of the city hold to this belief.

Founded Settlements

• Lebis