Eda Oweland
A lifelong resident of Saltmarsh, Eda has been elected to the council three times and owns three large fishing boats. She is gruff, pragmatic, suspicious of Manistrad's dwarven mining operation and doubts its success, and is particularly interested in expanding the town's fishing industry with the building of more dock space. Her graying hair is cut short and her face shows the lines of a woman who has spent much of her life outdoors. She sticks up for her people, swears like a sailor when angry, and flattery only worsens her opinion of you. She is community-driven and the first to volunteer to help anyone in town, loves Saltmarsh and its inhabitants, and while suspicious of outsiders, she's loyal and trusting to a fault of those familiar to her.
She resides in Oweland House, a mansion made of a menagerie of additions and expansions to accommodate the family's growth and have space for the downtrodden or fishers who have fallen in hard times, giving them a place to stay and eat until they can get back on their feet. The mazelike, haphazard interior gave rise to rumors of hidden passages that are actually true: sprawling out of the cellar are secret tunnels leading to various points outside of town used in the past by the family for smuggling.
