Every halfling has cousins.

Some are respectable. Some are helpful. Some really shouldn't be left unattended near farm equipment.

For our second Community Goal, we're asking you to help fill the Cousin Registry.

Invent a halfling cousin by giving them:

The more wonderfully ordinary, delightfully eccentric, or suspiciously specific, the better.

Perhaps you'll introduce us to Cousin Bellweather, eel taxidermist. Or Cousin Pindle, competitive jam judge. Maybe Cousin Morley, disgraced parade marshal.

Leave your cousin in the comments below, then share them on social media using #Merryshire and tag Pelgrane Press. We'll gather our favourite entries from both the campaign page and our social channels.

Eight of our favourites will appear in the final book as a random Cousin Table, ready to help investigators with advice, rumours, transportation, baked goods, or whatever else cousins happen to provide.

Who's your cousin?

Before we send you off to invent cousins, we'd like to leave you with a little behind-the-scenes look at Merryshire.

Today's art reveal is a time-lapse of the Murder Board illustration coming together, showing the clues, notes, photographs, and tangled threads that every determined investigator eventually ends up surrounded by.

A huge thank you to Janio Garcia for bringing this wonderfully chaotic scene to life. We hope you enjoy watching it take shape as much as we enjoyed seeing it develop.

We have plenty more artwork to reveal between now and launch, so stay tuned!

Don't forget to share the campaign with friends and communities so that we'll have more cousins!

See you in the next update!