Regis

Regis (jokingly called Rumblebelly by Bruenor Battlehammer ) was the halfling member in the adventuring group known as the Companions of the Hall.

Physical description
Regis was barely 3 feet (0.9m) tall and so chubby he earned the nickname "Rumblebelly", given to him by his dwarven friend Bruenor Battlehammer. When traveling Regis wore a fine red shirt, brown vest and breeches.

Personality
Regis enjoyed nothing so much as comfortable living. He could be quite subtle and equally crafty, though he was by no means cruel in any way. He grew wise over the course of his many misadventures and gained an ability to see things his friends often missed. Regis abhorred violence and did his best to avoid it. In situations where tasks were assigned of varying threat, Regis attempted to take the least dangerous option, something that his companions came to expect of him. However, when he had to enter battle, he tried to support his allies with sneak attacks against their enemies. After a battle was done, he believed in principle that the bodies of the fallen enemies must be searched. He felt that unlike the other Companions of the Hall, he was not a hero, and relied on them heavily.

Regis was skilled at making scrimshaw trinkets from materials such as knucklehead trout. He was able to speak Orcish, but only at a basic level.

Equipment
Regis was the least martially capable companion, mainly playing his part by using a magical ruby pendant to influence the minds of others. He did carry a small mace, however, and used it on occasion, usually to speed things along when his new "pets" were losing. He obtained the pendant by stealing it from Pasha Pook, head of the thieves' guild in Calimport.

Calimshan
Regis was born in or near Calimport far to the south. His earliest recollections were of a childhood spent on the streets, begging and stealing. Eventually Regis caught the eye of Pasha Pook, master of the city's thieves' and assassins' guilds. Regis did not disappoint his new master, but he eventually became bored. Regis discovered Pook used a magic ruby pendant in his dealings, and he set his eyes on stealing Pasha's powerful pendant. After stealing it, he fled.

Icewind Dale
Pook proved more determined than Regis anticipated though, and wherever he went, Pook's men soon followed. Regis' flight finally brought him to the rigid climes of Icewind Dale, where he believed not even Pook's hired thugs could find him. Regis made a good living in the harsh Ten Towns, carving trinkets out of the local fish bones.

He made for himself a living in Lonelywood and started his own shop know as Bone Works where he sold scrimshaw carvings. He got his knucklehead trout from a barbarian prince named Kinnuki who lived at the Sea of Moving Ice. Regis got the biggest and best trouts from him in exchange for stock goods.

While living in the Icewind Dale he befriended Bruenor Battlehammer and Drizzt Do'Urden, often reluctantly joining them in one adventure after another. After a time, the assassin Artemis Entreri tracked Regis down and kidnapped him, taking him back to Calimport where Regis' friends had to rescue him. Regis remained in Calimport for a time, but he was eventually driven out and back to his friends by Entreri. After many more adventures, Regis has settled into his life of adventure by his friends' sides and become a chief advisor to Bruenor.

Injury and escape from Shallows
In 1370 DR Regis was in Shallows with the Companions of the Hall when it was attacked. He was stabbed by an orc and fell off the defensive wall of the settlement, but was not seriously hurt. Feeling as though he could not be of any significant use in the battle at Shallows, Regis made his way out in an attempt to summon help. He was spotted by a worg-riding orc and his left arm was mauled, but he was able to use his ruby to charm the orc into riding the worg south.

Bruenor was incapacitated during the battle. Regis became Steward Regis. He stepped down after Bruenor recovered.

As the events of the Spellplague reached the Silver Marches, Catti-brie's mind was sent into an area between two planes of existence. In an attempt to recover her, Regis used the ruby pendant and was similarly trapped. After months spent looking for solutions, Regis and Catti-brie both passed away, their souls taken by Mielikki. A pair matching their description were later seen in a magical forest in Icewind Dale called Iruladoon.

Delthuntle
In 1463 DR after spending decades (in Faerûn time) in Iruladoon, Mielikki offered the four companions a choice of proceeding to their professed deity's home plane or accept rebirth in Faerûn so that they could aid Drizzt in a trial which would take place twenty-one years in the future. As did the others, Regis chose rebirth and found himself the newborn son of an impoverished halfling in Delthuntle. From a very early age Regis was aware of who he really was and worked to hone his martial and rougish skills.

Regis' mother, who had watersoul genasi blood, passed on her ability to hold her breath for long periods of time to Regis and his father put him to work diving for deep oysters in the Sea of Fallen Stars. A halfling crime lord known as Grandfather Pericolo Topolino took an interest in Regis and convinced his father to allow Regis to dive for oysters which Pericolo cultivated to produce pink pearls.

In 1481 DR, Pericolo found the location of the wreck of the infamous lich Ebensoul's shipwreck and sailed to the site with Regis to dive for the wreck's treasure. Regis recovered several valuable magical items but in the process released the lich Ebonsoul who subsequently tracked down Pericolo and killed him. Regis fled Delthuntle and took his mentor's name while on the road.

Interlude
After fleeing Delthuntle, Regis spent several years adventuring with a band of halfings known as the Grinning Ponies and traveled to Luskan and then Icewind Dale in late 1483 DR.

Reunion
In late 1483 DR, Regis settled in Lonelywood, where Catti-brie found him and helped save him from a band of ruffians from Ship Rethnor.

Description
Regis appeared the same after his reincarnation as he did before it, albeit he later wore a neatly trimmed mustache and small goatee. He often wore his wealth openly; entering Luskan in 1483 DR, he wore his bold, blue beret, three weapons on his belt belt (rapier on his left hip, hand crossbow on his right hip, and his dagger behind the crossbow), a blue sash, a black leather sleeveless vest, a white shirt revealing a mithral undershirt, high black boots, and blue leather riding gloves.

Regis viewed his reincarnation as a way to develop his skills and "pay back" his friends for all the times they helped him when he was helpless. At times he even provoked fights for practice when he could have easily avoided them.

Equipment
Regis recovered a powerful magical dagger from a lich's shipwreck. The dagger had several prongs shaped like snakes that the wielder could will to animate to form a defensive grid near the hilt, detach to choke an opponent or snap a parried blade. After Grandfather Topolino was killed by the lich, his granddaughter Donnola Pericolo gave Regis Topolino's magical rapier and beret. The beret allowed Regis to disguise himself.

Icewind Dale trilogy

 * 1) The Crystal Shard (1988)
 * 2) Streams of Silver (1989)
 * 3) The Halfling's Gem (1990)

Legacy of the Drow

 * 1) The Legacy (1992)
 * 2) Starless Night (1993)
 * 3) Siege of Darkness (1994)
 * 4) Passage to Dawn (1996)

Paths of Darkness
* Servant of the Shard (2000) has been removed from this series and placed within the Sellswords series, which follows Jarlaxle and Artemis Entreri.
 * 1) The Silent Blade (1998)
 * 2) Sea of Swords (novel) (2001)

Hunter's Blades trilogy

 * 1) The Thousand Orcs (2002)
 * 2) The Lone Drow (2003)
 * 3) The Two Swords (2004)

Transitions

 * 1) The Orc King (2007)
 * 2) The Pirate King (2008)
 * 3) The Ghost King (2009)

The Sundering

 * 1) The Companions (2013)