Jala Highstepper
Guildhead of the Otari Farmer's Guild
Appearance
A brisk, business-minded halfling woman, as comfortable haggling over livestock prices as tending the little shrine of Erastil in the guildhall's side yard.
Personality
Practical, level-headed, and community-minded, with a genuine devotion to Erastil though she is no cleric herself. She has quietly shouldered the role of spokeswoman for the whole region's farmers, and does it well, even as she keeps hoping a real priest of Erastil will one day settle in Otari and take up the mantle.
Backstory
Jala runs Otari's Farmer's Guild, coordinating the stables, auction houses, livestock pens, butcher shops, and guildhall that handle the distribution of goods from the surrounding farms and ranches, so the members are paid fairly without losing days to deliveries. The guildhall keeps a dozen rooms free for visiting farmers. When trouble strikes the outlying farms, the farmers look first to Jala, and she is not one to sit safe in town while her neighbors suffer.