Sesskavar - The Yuan-ti Malison
He sits closest to the fire, thanks you twice, and never takes off his gloves. By morning, one bedroll is empty.
Aldaris Greywillow - "A.K.A. Sedge"
You took a second handful. That's all right, everyone does. Come, I'll show you where it goes back.
The Naming at Lantern Rite Crossing
Lantern light spills across three shrouded dead as the marsh answers in their voices. Hybrid, level 5: finish the rite before the light claims someone.
Gallowfrond - The Needle Blight
Every dead palm gets felled. This one is still standing, and it rattles when the air is still.
Bharash Kilnbrand - Weaponsmith of Zharessin Oasis
In the hydra-hide halls of Zharessin Oasis, brass dragonborn Bharash Kilnbrand smelts desert ironstone with his own breath and fits every weapon to the hand that will carry it. He stands behind everything he sells.
Skraggorn - The Bugbear
He couldn't take the oasis. So he sits in the dunes and takes from everyone who walks away from it.
Oshenne Zephrain - Wind Interpreter of Zharessin Oasis
Every night the wind howls past the black rock ring around Zharessin Oasis, and Oshenne Zephrain, an air genasi elder of the council of shamans, tilts her head and listens. She gives the sound first, what she thinks it asked second, and never claims to know who is speaking.
Pitchperch - The Gargoyle
Every stone along the ring turns cold after sunset except one. It has been keeping a seat warm for you.
Rhazik Skyscale - Chieftain of Zharessin Oasis
Rhazik Skyscale is the bronze dragonborn chieftain of Zharessin Oasis, a calm, unhurried leader who keeps the desert's peace by listening first. He receives every guest seated, and he is far more dangerous than he lets anyone see.
Issue #3 - Into the Ardent Woods: A Missing Woodcarver, an Unfinished Song and a Festival Gone Wrong
This week in the Ardent Woods: a free information broker and a treehouse mystery, a banshee's four-hundred-year-old song for Local Heroes, and a festival-sabotage encounter for Heroes of the Realm.
The Old Smolder - The Pyrohydra
Do not try to kill it. Find the way out first, and count how many of its heads are already awake.
Pandara Hornfall - Escort Captain of Zharessin Oasis
Pandara Hornfall is a brass dragonborn who captains the escort patrols Zharessin Oasis sends through the Endless Expanse's most dangerous stretches. She counts every traveler at dawn and dusk, and she keeps walking beside a column until the last wagon is through.