Caravan Guards

Human warrior 2
Two catagories of guards are part of Almah’s party—loyal personal guards assigned to protect her by the Dealmakers themselves, and mercenaries she hired at Solku to bolster her group’s strength. All of these guards are second-level human warriors, but the two groups are quite different in personality. The four personal guards are named Fixx, kel-Don, Podarn, and Vodrave. Like Garavel, they serve the Dealmakers of Zep Tepi. It just so happens that they have been assigned to protect Almah, but she does not have direct control over them. The vigilant guards have little sense of humor, are not particularly communicative, and never really treat the player characters as anything other than a potential threat to Almah. There were six mercenaries—three men (Trevvis [the nominal leader], now-dead Utarchus, and Fizah) and three women (Kallien, Brotis, and Yesper). They are a disreputable lot, thick with soiled armor and greasy hair, a distinct contrast to the well-mannered, meticulously attired soldiers who guard Almah at all times. Although they act the part, the mercenaries are nowhere near as tough as they appear or portray themselves to be. At the beginning of the adventure their bluster is fairly intimidating, but as the PCs defeat more and more monsters the mercenaries begin to appear like the middling battlefield pawns that they are. All the while, however, the mercenaries firmly believe themselves to be the PCs’ superiors, treating them accordingly.