Olga Halfhand

The Flagoneers first knew Olga Blackreach by her slave name: Olga Halfhand. Once an exile from the Underdark city of Gretretka, she is now a member of the city's ruling council, the Gerousia. She is an abolitionist, a radical environmentalist, a devotee of Dumathoin, and a passionate friend of the Flagoneers.

Olga devoted the first half of her life to the cause of Gretretkan abolitionism. Having forged lifelong alliances with dwarves Solri, Chip, and Rotrik Brawnstone, propagandists Darina and Reggus Knifeward, and other since-disappeared friends, Olga found herself the public face of the movement. Her public opposition to slavery resulted in her maiming and exile.

After 200 years spent abroad, including time in and around Iron Town, Olga - now an old woman - was called to the Gerousia. Her crimes exonerated in accordance with the Old Laws, she was escorted to Gretretka by the Flagoneers. There, she found the city teetering on the edge of collapse after ten years of siege - fertile ground for a resurgent political movement. Quickly assembling a coalition with the disaffected Liberals, Olga was poised to take power from the ruling Traditionalist party when the latter attempted a coup d'etat.

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