Liara Portyr

Liara Portyr is the current commander of Fort Beluarian. She is a 50 year old human brelish woman with greying hair and sour disposition.

Liara is part of the Brelish nobility and has used her connections to etch out her own realm of influence in Xen'drik. Many adventurers use Fort Beluarian as a staging ground for exploration, and Liara makes sure that she benefits from that. Rumour has it that she can help you get out of Xen'drik without alerting the Merchant Princes.

She has a rather bigoted view of warforged, clearly not considering them much more then a mere machine. Her opinion of the locals is not much better, showing no signs of respect for their customs. This is best shown in her honest belief that all the jungle from the fort to the mountains belongs to her.

She is however able to set aside her prejudices temporarily if she stands to profit from it.

Role in the Last War
As part of the Brelish nobility it is assumed she has a prominent role as commander during the war. However she is not known for her exploits. She used to report directly to Grand Duke Ulder Ravengard, who after the Treaty of Thronehold was given a position in the Brelish Royal Senate.

During the Campaign
Normally, travelers to Fort Beluarian will have paid a hefty sum for papers granting "rights" to explore and plunder before arriving. So when the party showed up unannounced, she used her position of power to extort from them their services. The fort had a ghoul problem, and was willing to pay 20 gold per head. With her "totally not bullshit" papers costing 200 gold in total, the party was forced to accept, even though they most likely would have accepted anyhow, just to stay on her good side.

The party returned a day later with 11 ghoul heads, among them the head of the ghoul king. While she clearly did not believe the myths surrounding the ghoul king, she was nonetheless happy that the problem was solved. After being severely underpaid for the ghoul king (Thanks Bucket), they asked her about their two targets.

Sadly, they had not passed through the fort, but she offered to contact the 2 other forts for information. Not for free of course; troubling reports of frost giants had come in from her scouts, an unheard of sight this far from the mountains. She wanted us to investigate the sightings, find out where they were heading, and why. Besides, she needed time to amend the party's papers to include rights to bounty hunting, so it's not like the they had anything better to do.