Vala

Vala is a gnome pupeteer who arrived in Anglesey from Belix in late August of 378 YS. He was drawn south to the human kingdom by rumors of a great temple to Garl Glittergold being built in the buried old city of the mountain domain. In particular, he heard intriguing tales about an adventuring Garlish cleric who had adopted Anglesey as his home and begun ministering to the growing gnome population there through storytelling and theater.

Vala came to the city while the cleric was away on one of his many adventures, and immediately settled into the growing congregation. He found it delightful that so many of the people attending the services and plays at the temple were neither devotees of Garl, or even gnomes - people came simply because it was fun. His puppet shows quickly came to be some of the favorite attractions for the temple, and while his occasionally irreverant attitude toward Hieronius and St. Anglesey somtimes rubs the local sense of humor (or lack thereof) the wrong way, he is quickly forgiven in light of the solid morals taught by his shows.

Privately, Vala appears to be a deeply religious individual. He spends much of his time by himself in contemplation, sometimes even disapearing from the city for days. Typically, his disappearances presage some grand prank played on some particularly serious member of the Angle community, which has resulted in the temple (or its head cleric) paying reparations.