Gruff

Gruff, AKA Gruff the Happy Builder, is a scary-looking bearded man who runs the Happy Builders' Building and Building Management Association. He has twelve children, and his entire family are all fans of the Heroes of Axminster.

Family
He and his wife have 12 children, nontuplets and then triplets.
 * Mairwen, the first mate on her ship. She is spur-of-the-moment, but competent.
 * Winola: Gruff's building assistant. She pretends not to care about anything.
 * Solenne: An astronomist at the University.
 * Talla: A forester. She is incredibly strong and quite tall, but doesn't talk much.
 * Itza: A traveling trader.
 * Evalina: A guard captain. She is hard-line, ambitious, and pretends to be much older than she actually is.
 * Amelia: A marketing specialist. She is sophisticated and slightly snooty.
 * Kamala: A tax collector. She is intelligent, and slightly manipulative.
 * Reece: A private investigator.
 * Mylton, Nelson, and Aaron: three identical twin brothers who run a trading and exporting business.