Marrag the Stonewidow - The Sea Hag
She never promised protection. She promised the price of being politely spared.
Grindshell - The Giant Crab
The glass on Kindlestrand's black sand doesn't usually pinch back.
Vespral - The Deep Scion
The pool at your feet has always meant calm. Tonight it sings the storm-note instead — clear, correct, and a lie.
Oarbreaker - The Plesiosaurus
You don't see the wake until it's already curling toward you.
Lampless - The Flameskull
The flame at the wreck's mast has no lamp to sit in, and no memory of who used to light it.
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.