Yarrow Ashpan - Salt-Walker of the Kindlestrand and Emberstrand Coasts
A homeless halfling boils salt out of Emberfall's steaming tidepools, moving camp as each one dries, and in the process has ended up knowing who's where on both coasts.
Talia Kindstep - Coast-Walking Healer of the Tideline
A wandering Tabaxi healer who walks the sick and injured down the coast from Kindlestrand Shore to Emberstrand Cove, trusting the sea breeze there to finish what her own hands start.
Hesk Longcount - Shell-Listener of the Singing Tidepools
Hesk Longcount has walked Kindlestrand Shore for decades, keeping the only record of which tidepools sing and when. Now the shells washing ashore whisper too, and his careful archive holds the first real clues anyone has.
Torrin Gravelwade - Turtle-Follower of the Emberfall Coast
Torrin Gravelwade is a firbolg who follows Emberfall's rare glass-shell turtles between two coastlines every nesting season, guarding their nests without ever claiming them as his own.
Skarra Cairnmark - Watcher of the Drift Grave
Every moon, the Goliath wanderer Skarra Cairnmark walks Emberstrand Cove's tideline to measure how far the burned Drift Grave has crept, and to turn back anyone who thinks they should go looking in it themselves.
Kaltrasp - The Giant Scorpion
It crossed a hundred miles of sand to find warmth — and Cinderglade's herds are the warmest thing it has ever felt.
Kolgrath Farsight - The Cyclops
Cinderglade's herds aren't the only ones grazing these plains — his just happen to stand thirty feet tall.
Vrask the Stolen-Cry - The Leucrotta
You know that cry — you raised that calf. Vrask has been listening long enough to know it too.
Skorrath - The Nightmare
Its hooves throw sparks, not dust. If you notice you're running alone, you're already too far from the fires.
Aurenna - The Gold Dragon Wyrmling
Watch the firedance long enough, and you'll notice a second flame keeping time — one with wings.
Juniper Swiftmane - First-Time Runner of the Karvax
A young centaur of Cinderglade is about to run the Run of Karvax for the first time - spear unlit, nerve untested, and far more afraid of the flame itself than she'll ever admit.
Ossra Stillfoot - Tremor-Reading Shaman of Cinderglade
Cinderglade's clans run on instinct; Ossra Stillfoot stands motionless and listens to what the ground itself is about to do. A tremor-reading shaman who guides Cindersight's vision quests, and who has begun feeling something in the earth she can't yet explain.