King Kolgan

A small green kobold, slight even by the standards of his own kin. Above ground he is seldom seen as himself: wrapped in his sister's masquerade scarf, he walks Otari's streets as Fiver, an unremarkable halfling.

Kolgan was once timid to the point of trembling and quick to expect the worst from surface dwellers. That prince is gone. The throne has made a leader of him, steady and sure of himself, and he holds to the principle that made him an exile in the first place: he would not be the ruler who started a war, and he means to be the one who ended it.

Second-born of the kobold royal line, Kolgan was cast out by his elder sister Queen Zolgran when he opposed her plan to raise a dragon beneath Otari and loose it on the surface. Their fight brought the Thirsty Alpaca down on top of them, and he hid for a long time afterwards in a crawlspace beneath the ruins, scaring off anyone who came near with an illusory haunting of four blue lights rather than risk being seen above ground.

Rygel, Herald, and Corpi found him out, and Finn talked him into going back down to stand against his sister. On Gozran 30th he led the party through the tunnels, recognising one of his own people among the kobolds they had killed the day before, and stepped out in front of them to announce that he had come to reclaim his throne. His people dropped their weapons at the sight of him. Only the trapmaster held out, until Kolgan disarmed one of the man's own traps. In the throne room the royal siblings traded spells across the pit; Kolgan nearly went down several times, and Corpi, Shiro, and Finn kept him standing. When Zolgran fell, the last of her guard knelt and hailed him king.

His first decree ended the war with the surface: the Stonescales would hunt the dragon his sister had raised. The party gave him the Queen's masquerade scarf so he could return to the surface without fear. That same day he followed the party into the dragon's lair, where one breath of poison came closer to killing him than his sister had, and he swore afterwards that no Stonescale would steal another fish. The next morning Franz Frangelico slew the dragon, and the last of Zolgran's plan died with it.

The war Kolgan refused to start never came. The exile who hid beneath a ruined tavern now rules from his sister's throne and leads the Stonescales into a time of peace with the town above, which knows him, when it sees him at all, as a halfling called Fiver.