Head Chef, Valecourt Manor

Nicholas Kozlov

GrippliHead ChefValecourt Manor

At a Glance

At a Glance

Ancestry

Grippli — a frog person, and slightly overweight with it

Role

Head chef at Valecourt Manor

Accent

A little Cajun under a heavy dose of French, despite the name

Feats

Cleared the ghouls out of his own kitchen unassisted, and swept the bodies out after

Behind the Hatch

Who He Is

A Grippli — a frog person — comfortably built in the way of a man who tastes everything he sends out, and head of the kitchen at Valecourt Manor.

He speaks with a little Cajun buried under a heavy dose of French, which sits oddly with a name like Kozlov. Nobody at the ball asked, and he did not offer.

From session 2026-08-29-1645

At the Betrothal Ball

When Ottora returned the plate of yellow mushrooms to the serving hatch, the head chef reportedly blew up — he had cut them himself, and the accusation of poison was his to answer for. He scurried to a corner, retrieved something, and had a fraught word with the lord's staff about it.

When the ghouls came, the kitchen was the one part of the manor that stayed clear. The chef held the doorway on his own and dealt with whatever came through it, which suggests the manor staff are not all what they appear.