Arafed man with long red hair and beard in a brown vest

Baron Roderick Lowell governs the lightly populated and rugged wilderness domain of Gladwin County from his fortified timber stronghold known as Fort Gladwin. The compound sits strategically positioned overlooking the confluence of the Tittabawassee and Tobacco Rivers. A minor nobleman from East Anglia banished in disgrace to the colonies following a failed rebellion against the Crown, Baron Lowell carved his estate from the remote forests of central Michigan with a band of fellow dissenters, veterans, and adventurers willing to risk isolation in exchange for land and liberty. Standing over six feet tall with a barrel chest and flaming red hair and beard, Baron Lowell cuts an imposing figure across the rugged frontier. What he lacks in pedigree he makes up for through brawn, ambition and unwillingness to bend the knee or play court politics any longer. From the rustic great hall of Fort Gladwin, Lowell administers a loosely governed domain - granting leases to trapper brigades, survey corps and settlers hardy enough to endure the harsh climate, floods and outbreaks plague in exchange for fixed annual payments in fur, fish and timber. He is regarded as fair in his own gruff style.