Brammly Olivedown

Raised in the village of Applebottom Dell, Bramley grew up in a home where pies were served with pie. After a bout of serious illness in his youth, a kindly old elf healer introduced him to herbal broths and nutritional porridge. It changed his life.

He trained under a mix of elven cooks, human healers, and a single dwarven dietician who taught him to roast root veg with honor. He’s now devoted to turning halfling cuisine from comfort to conscious, one lightly steamed meal at a time.

Signature Dishes

• Greenroot Mash – a creamy blend of mossbarley, garlic sprouts, and turnip hearts
• Griddle-Steamed Cave Carrots – lightly browned in mushroom oil and tossed in lemonspice
• Not-Fried Forager’s Pie – baked with oatcrust and filled with lentil, shrooms and savory gravy

Bramley is the embodiment of enthusiastic reform. He’s passionate, tireless, and slightly annoying when it comes to removing butter from everything. He believes halflings are living shorter, rounder lives than necessary — and wants to save them through greens, grains, and responsible snacking.

He's kind to children, patient with skeptics, but will glare down even a clan-matron if she tries to sneak bacon grease into a stew “for tradition’s sake.”

• Replace deep-fried everything with roasted, grilled, or steamed alternatives
• Educate halfling households on the dangers of butter-laced second breakfasts
• Convince even one halfling grandmother to reduce her cheese layer
• Publish the first Healthy Halfling Cookbook that doesn’t get used as a doorstop

• Friendly but tense relationship with Gord Rammson, who calls him "The Butter Banshee"
• Idolizes elven culinary monk Eliryen Leafwhisk
• Is campaigning against Halfling Pie Week, calling it "a national health crisis"