Galt has always been a nation of free thinkers and radicals renowned for brilliant poets, artists and philosophers whose ideas shaped the politics of the whole of Avistan. Chief among these was the half-elf philosopher Hosseter, who wrote the scathing political essays Imperial Betrayal. These essays helped increase the dislike of Imperial Cheliax and they spread dissent across Andoran and even into the heartland of Cheliax itself. Then Darl Jubannich, the poet of Woodsedge, capitalised on this by publishing his own attack on Cheliax and the very concept of the divine right of kings called On Government. This created further hatred of the new government of Cheliax which quickly blossomed into all-out rebellion. Mobs tore down all the symbols of Chelaxian oppression and executed those they felt were Chelaxian sympathisers, predominantly the nobility. Soon Hossiter and Jubannich, along with other heroes of the revolution, formed the Revolutionary Council to rule the newly-independent nation of Galt. Little did they understand the beast they had created, for within five years the first Revolutionary Council had been overthrown by another set of bloodthirsty revolutionaries who wanted change. And so began the cycle of bloodshed and revolution after revolution that has lead to Galt's decline into a nation inhabited by mobs of paranoid, revolutionary fanatics.
The people of Galt were once renowned for their free-thinking and lust for life, but during the long years of revolution this has slowly turned to bloodlust. Their free-thinking nature has become fanatical, revolutionary zeal, and their lust for life turned into a bloodlust towards those they perceive as responsible for the terrible conditions now prevalent in their land. All too often, the residents of Galt are forced into homelessness as the infrastructure of Galt has long since collapsed and food has become a scarce commodity. The people of Galt are generally distrustful of strangers, which is not helped by Citizen Goss's fiery rhetoric which blames all of Galt's problems on outsiders. From this troubled land emerges the quiet heroine René.
Daughter of Bérenger Saunière a one-time priest turned spy and a veteran of the Mendevian Crusades
and Noël Corbu an exotic mademoiselle formerly a courtesan and spy from Absalom. Both clever creatures descended from exotic Kitsune of the Dragon Empires and firmly naturalized citizens of Avistan with the ways, mannerisms and appearances of native Galtans and Taldorans.
Reynardette l'Château d'Amberville ( or René of the noble House of the town of Amber) was born in the shadow of Mont Pech-le-Cardou in Galt in the tumult of the post revolutionary years. Her father, once a close confidant and spy for the Comte d' Saint Germaine, a heroic Galtan crusader and Chevalier of renown who survived the madness of the Galtan Revolution only to die at the hands of a later revolutionary peoples council looking for scapegoats.
René has recently fled the madness of Galt's Age of Terror to the safety of neighboring Andoran.
