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| '''The freed lair-peoples of the north''' <br/>''[[Hrimthur]], [[Ralph]], [[Marfulb]]''
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| Freed from [[Arauthator]]'s service (S48–50).
| Freed from [[Arauthator]]'s service <ref name="s48-50">[[Session 48 - Inside Oyaviggaton (2026.04.12)|Session 48]]–[[Session 50 - Reforged in Hell, the Voyage Home (2026-06-14)|Session 50]].</ref>.
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| '''The Ice Hunters''' — [[Bone Carver]]'s clan
| '''The Ice Hunters''' — [[Bone Carver]]'s clan

Latest revision as of 18:43, 15 September 2026

Council Disposition Tracker

How the coalition — and the countryside — regard Deez Nuts. The upper table tracks the war council's member realms. The lower one tracks goodwill: the ordinary places that have reason to think well of the company, and the ones that do not.

For what each faction wants and offers, see the Faction Support Tracker. For per-character ranks and boons, the Renown Tracker. For the council itself, Council of Waterdeep.

Council members & realms

The dispositions Leosin Erlanthar briefed the party on before the Council of Waterdeep, updated as they shift.

Member Disposition Position & priorities What the party has done
WaterdeepLady Dalla Silmerhelm Ally Aligned with the coalition; knew of Maccath the Crimson. Acted on her Maccath lead.
NeverwinterLord Dagult Neverember Believer / pragmatist Presided over the Council and deputized the party. Earned the deputization.
Baldur's Gate / Flaming FistMarshal Ulder Ravenguard Believer / pragmatist Defends the Bronze Blades (his agents); backs the giant alliance. Granted the company Nuts Deep. Friction over the Bronze Blades, then rescued them; holds and defended the fort he granted them.
Mithral Hall dwarvesAmbassador Conrad Brawn Skeptic — to win over Distrusts the giant alliance (old dwarf–giant enmity). The giant alliance remains a sore point with him.
Misty Forest elvesKing Melendrak Skeptic — to win over Doubts the Cult can truly summon Tiamat. Not yet decisively convinced.
SilverymoonTaern Thunderspells Hornblade Conditional Wants all intelligence on summoning and resurrection magic. Reported the Draakhorn, the resurrections of Rath Modar & Rezmir, and Red Wizard involvement.

Goodwill

Councils are won with victories. Villages are won with roofs.

Goodwill records how ordinary communities regard the company — earned by what was done for them, and spent on the things only locals can give. It is tracked separately from council standing because it behaves differently: it is slower to build, far harder to fake, and it does not care what a lord thinks.

The scale

Standing What it means
Devoted The place considers itself to owe the company. Doors open, and stay open.
Warm Welcome, fed, and helped. Strangers asking after the company get nothing.
Neutral Known of, not known. Ordinary custom, ordinary prices.
Wary Something happened here. Cooperation is grudging and watched.
Hostile The company is not safe here, and neither is anyone associated with them.

What goodwill is good for

  • Shelter and supply — lodging, food, horses, hands, at fair cost or none.
  • Word freely given — what passed through, who asked after whom, what the strangers looked like.
  • Cover for associates — see below.
  • Warning — a warm village sends word when someone comes asking. A devoted one sends word before they finish asking.
  • Resistance to agitation — a place that trusts the company is markedly harder for the Cult of the Dragon to turn against it.

Associates

Goodwill extends beyond the six of them. It covers the company's associates: every faction cell — The Nightingales, The Anvil, Talonfall — and the squires. A village that trusts Deez Nuts will house a Nightingale without asking her business, walk a Talon to the right trailhead, and forget it saw either.

This makes goodwill the one resource that quietly improves every other cell's reach.

The record

Place Standing Why
Luskan Devoted The company broke the blood-red coin curse and cured the city [1].
Elturel Devoted Saved a secret supply caravan and destroyed the force pursuing it at the Battle of Nuts Deep [2]. The city is sending craftsmen and supplies in thanks.
Greenest Warm Xanphina met Langdedrosa Cyanwrath in single combat before the whole town [3].
Phandalin Warm The Redbrands broken and Gundren Rockseeker recovered, in the company's first days.
The Svirfneblin of the deep Warm Allied, and their lift repaired [4].
The Myconid colony Warm Befriended rather than fought [5].
The freed lair-peoples of the north
Hrimthur, Ralph, Marfulb
Warm Freed from Arauthator's service [6].
The Ice HuntersBone Carver's clan Hostile Turned on the company after learning it had killed their missing kin [7].
The burned homesteads north of Neverwinter Neutral Razed by the Cult; survivors with nothing left and nowhere to be. Keyleth proposed recruiting labour from them. Nothing has yet been done for them.

See also

References