Swiftriver Clan

The Swiftriver Clan are the most prominent and largest halfling family and business organization in the dwarven town of Hammerfast.   They own two buildings in the Gate Ward, serve a number of menial jobs in town, serving as maids and busters to some of the rich families in the Trade Ward and as staff in the inns and taverns. They also operate as hunters, fishers and there are rumors that they operate as smugglers. Despite being considered second or even third class citizens, they seen themselves as fierce patriots and are protective of their adoptive home. For years, before the Bloodspear Orc Invasion, they wandered the Inner Reaches. The orc invasion thinned their numbers and made their life unbearably dangerous. Less than a decade ago, they found this new home that accepted them.   The Swiftriver Clan Home is a small stone building that is packed to the rafters with about two dozen halflings. Loud, boisterous, and lacking any sense of tact, the halflings are always on the lookout for a new mark or a quick way to accumulate gold coins.   Swiftriver Manor is the second property acquired by the clan. The younger, unattached members of the clan live here. They welcome halflings and gnomes in for drinks and gossip, but rebuff other folk.   The Halfling Square has a small foundation of a leaping fish in its middle. The elders of the clan gather here to sip tankards of beer, swap stories and play games.   Dara Swiftriver is the clan matriarch.     Tharn Swiftriver is a scout and explorer, and a leader of the clan.   Hugo Swiftriver is the clan historian, second in age only to Dara.