Jansen

The Jansens were a family of gnomes that lived across the west coast of Faerûn during the 14 century DR.

Activities
While members of the family held a number of professions, including inventors, adventurers, criminals, performers, and herbalists, their primary interests were in the cultivation and use of turnips.

Members
The Amnian Jansens were a diverse and eccentric group of gnomes.

Among them were the siblings and siblings-in-law;
 * Jan Jansen, an inventor and adventurer who lived in Athkatla
 * Elgar Buttercup, Jan's brother, whose skin was supposedly made of charcoal
 * Burt Wonderkind, the griffon-baiter

Their cousins;
 * Glandig, who had twins named Tot and Tat
 * Josephine, who became involved with a "gully dwarf"
 * Beeloo, another cousin who had a history of run–ins with the law
 * Richard, an uncle who tried to make nude theater popular in Waterdeep

The aunts and uncles:
 * Sara, who attempted to take over the world with turnip pies laced with psychogenic herbs
 * Gerhardt, who despite his incoherent ramblings was somehow privy to the activities of the Hidden
 * Hans Jansen, a great-uncle who was an accomplished alchemist

As well as:
 * Yanna Jojannsen, Jan Jansen's niece, who was charmed by the vampire Hexxat and died while searching for the tomb of Dragomir
 * Eduardo, an inventor whose creations were displayed in Waukeen's Promenade

The "Culver Jansens" were those from the family who were exiled from Thunder Mountain and settled in the city of Culver.


 * Uncle Pinto, who sold the rights of Culver for a bag of turnips
 * Erb, a courtesan and former chest-maker who settled in the city of Neverwinter

History
According to their family the city of Culver has not existed since the "great Turnip Famine of '45".

Appearances

 * Video Games:
 * ''Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
 * Neverwinter Nights