Because, sometimes, NPCs need some love, too. Tirandra, the place my D&D campaign takes place, is a world of horror, darkness, and despair, with just enough points of light scattered about to give a glimmer of hope and make the world still worth saving. These odd-couple traveling merchants are some of those points of light that the PCs latched onto when the merchants offered a camp, food, and some amusing banter to the weary party in the midst of uncertain, frightening events.

This is an off-camera scene of the ever-dour and sarcastic Jobasha, the endlessly optimistic Skah, and their newly adopted daughter, Kechara, who they and the PCs rescued from a pile of bodies following the Massacre of Westreach. After the merchants traveled with the PCs for several weeks, they finally earned enough money to buy their very first shop. Having now parted ways with the party, they begin their long, dangerous trek south towards the city they wish to settle in. A place where, hopefully, they'll never have to deal with another bandit, goblin ambush, underground mage laboratory full of dark secrets and deadly creatures, or swarm of mind-linked gigantic insects ever again.

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