The Pennywhistle Puddlefoots

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The Pennywhistle Branch of the Puddlefoot Family

 

The Puddlefoot family is a family of halflings that has lived quietly and unnoticed for centuries amongst the other Descendants. The family got its name in 1243 on Aegis based on a nickname given to Bungo, son of Pipper, a halfling who built his burrow too close to a lake and had frequent floods in his foyer. Fredegar Puddlefoot, Bungo’s son, was the first of his family to bear the name Puddlefoot, the first of his family to bear the name Fredegar (which became a popular name in the family), and the only of his family to make the trip from Aegis to Asulon.

 

In Anthos, Fredegar Puddlefoot, the third of his name in four generations and great grandson of the original Fredegar, settled his family by a pond that they named Pennywhistle Pond after getting into an argument with the other halflings. From this point on, the family line splits and the descendants of those who settled with Fredegar became known as the Pennywhistle Puddlefoots.

 

Culture & Traditions

 

The Pennywhistle Puddlefoots have been mostly farmers, living a simple life away from the hustle and bustle of halfling town life. They take great care of the fields and animals under their care. As many of them never leave home and travel, they tend to be simpler when naming local landmarks close to them, as there is little need to differentiate between The Wood and other woods when you only know the one. Therefore, many directions given by a Pennywhistle Puddlefoot can be rather nonsensical to someone not of their family line. “See, ma Da was Tolman Puddlefoot and he lived over the Long Hill under the Trellised Pines and beyond the Bird Bog…”

 

Family history is exceptionally important to a Pennywhistle Puddlefoot, and items passed down by elder relations hold almost a sacred place in their households. Given the time, a Pennywhistle Puddlefoot is likely to tell you everything about their family back their full (currently) nine generations. “Why, this booster seat tha’ ‘elps me set in them biggun chairs was given ta me by Hoskin Bracegirdle. ‘E was my grandmother’s uncle, on my father’s side. Now Uncle Hoskin could put back an entire ‘og in one settin’, they say, and…”

 

Typical Appearance

 

Sandy, ginger, and blond hair is the most common amongst the Pennywhistle Puddlefoots. They tend to be around average height and have a higher rate of heterochromia than other halflings. Pennywhistle Puddlefoots often have larger hands than other halflings and its rumored that they may have had vestigial webbing between their hands in earlier generations due to their tendency to live near water. Such a thing hasn’t been seen in recent memory and it has passed into legend and fireside tall tales.

 

Religious Beliefs

 

Most members of the family do not devote any time to worshipping the traditional halfling deities or the deities of other races. While they acknowledge their existence, family history, traditions, simple living, and hospitality take on the importance of religion in their lives. It is not unusual for a Pennywhistle Puddlefoot, upon a stranger knocking on their door, to invite them inside and be three cups of tea into their conversation before finding out their name, and well into dinner by the time they get around to asking why the stranger had stopped by.

 

Notable Family Recipes

 

Pennywhistle Pumpkin Pie, lovingly made with the finest nutmeg and cloves and the freshest pumpkins, has been an important recipe for the Puddlefoot family for the last four generations.

 

Notable Relations

 

Fredegar Puddlefoot (1671 to Present), the sixth Fredegar in nine generations, and mayor of Hillsborough

 

Everard Puddlefoot (1552 to 1599), who was killed in an orc raid in Axios

 

Elanor Puddlefoot (1553 to 1672) née Elanor Cotton, who invented Pennywhistle Pumpkin Pie

 

Fredegar Puddlefoot (1384 to 1526), the third Fredegar in four generations, who did not have a son until he was 125-years-old and almost failed to pass on the family name, and was the progenitor of the Pennywhistle Puddlefoot branch of the Puddlefoot family.

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