Byrt

Byrt was one of the intelligent speaking wombats, similar to an awakened animal, who alongside Lugg, was a friend and companion of Artus Cimber in the mid-14 century DR.

"He can be terrible protective of his friends. And speaking of friends, did you know we are on quite good terms with the muckety-mucks of the fair city you just tried to renovate by uncontrolled fire?"

- Byrt to Queen M'bobo

Description
Byrt was a wombat, a small animal that resembled a pygmy bear or a "pig-bear", according to the Batiri. Byrt walked on all four stout legs, had chubby body covered in fur. Both Byrt and Lugg were about half the size of an adult human male. Byrt's face had round ears, flat nose, and bristling whiskers.

Out of the two, Byrt was the smaller one. His fur was gray. After his capture by the Batiri, the goblins ripped the magic earring off Byrt's ear along with a chunk of flesh.

Personality
Byrt was a complete opposite of his best friend Lugg. He was extroverted, talkative, eloquent, and optimistic to a fault. Even though he annoyed his friend with his constant laking, Lugg learned to channel it out, Byrt was a loyal fiend and Lugg was ready to charge into danger for his mate.

Possessions
Shortly before the Batiri siege of Mezro, Byrt wore a magical triangle earring that protected him from the effects of the wall of confusion surrounding the hidden city.

History
Both Byrt and Lugg hailed from a tiny island off the coast of Orlil, Lantan. Their home was a small and peaceful community of fifty wombats and an occasional odd platypus.

At some point earlier in his life, Byrt pursued his passion for the dramatic. The charismatic wombat attended and graduated from the Orlil's College of Bards, the Order of Fabulists. Upon finishing his bardic education, Byrt received the license to teach and lecture, sharing his rich knowledge of culture and lore. Like other fabulists, the wombat held vast book knowledge and was passionate about grammar.

After the bardic college, Byrt made living as a "jack-of-all--trades" while his buddy Lugg saved as a decent second-story man. Sometime in 1361 DR the captain of a pirate vessel Rampage came across the eloquent wombat duo on the beach of their home island burying their booty. The scoundrel had never seen talking animals and decided to snatch the wombats. The captain hoped to sell the duo to Waterdeep's zoo at the end of the ship's voyage. In some ways the wombats had high hopes to see a big city and maybe have a career in show business. However their hopes were shattered on the Rampage's next stop somewhere in the Refugee Bay of Chult. There, the pirates decided to strand the wombats, unable and unwitting to listen to Byrt's unending theatrical soliloquy any longer.

Byrt and Lugg spent the next two years in the jungles of Chult, trying to avoid the hungry Batiri goblins until the ran across Artus Cimber in 1362 DR.

Appearances

 * Adventures
 * Tomb of Annihilation
 * Novels
 * The Ring of Winter
 * The Ring of Winter