Kelbar is the giant chef of Ulmira’s Step — a girthy giant built like a wall, who runs the town’s open-air communal kitchen with a handful of teenage sous-chefs. When the great gong calls the town to its midday meal, it is Kelbar at the center of the action, turning out bread, stews, and smoked meat. When The Enduring Lesser Lights passed through he was steaming a batch of enormous beets, his hands stained deep red-purple to the wrist.
Warm and generous despite the town’s wariness of outsiders, Kelbar welcomed the party to the table and, when Draz complimented his cooking and traded a beet recipe of his own, the two struck up an easy rapport. Asked for travel food, Kelbar provided four days’ worth of raw ingredients, his own recipes, and a forager’s list tailored to whichever route the party took — the mountainside or the underworld.
Status: A friendly face in a wary town.