Bears

Types

The Lochgates are a clan of werebears.
The nordanbjorn are talking bears, ruled by the bjornajarl Thorek Ironhide. Their homeland is the Marche of the Winterjarl.
Drop bears
The knights of Castle Karandur (13.17) ride bears. The Lady of Karandur traces her line back to a bear who asked the Pacharia to be transformed into a human woman. She displays a bearskin above her hearth which she claims was her ancestor’s first skin.
Cave bears

One-Eyed Kevanjr is an old bear-bard who can recite in their entirety seven sagas of seven days’ duration each. He defeated Arinlag Fivefish in a fight for Karsta Thoreksdottir’s love.
Arinlag Fivefish is a bear-bard who lives in the Kingswood.
Thorek Ironhide is bjornajarl of the nordanbjorn
Karsta Thoreksdottir or Karsta the Slender is favourite daughter of Thorek. She has a child, which Arinlag and Kevanjr both claim as their own.
The previous jarl’s body is frozen in ice and some hope that she is still alive (14.01)
The Lochgates, including Sweitbor the Roarer, the fifth duke of Thring

Dwarven monastics smear bear fat on their faces when they go on pilgrimage to Mount Scorshia (02.03).
Grimvlech the Smiler brought down a bear with nothing but his silver teeth. He was offered marriage to an Anghart heir in the hope that he would defend against the Lochgates.
Some Scarecrow nests are build in abandoned bear’s dens.
The king of Hound’s Hearth, Hjalk, has an ailing fire-breathing bear, Snalfi.
A patch of land against the south wall of the Shuttered City belongs to the Grumluda embassy since the unfortunate incident of Doge Montisse and the twenty-six shaven cave bears