Yara Stonepath

A mountain guide who sells routes, not courage. Yara knows where sound carries too far, where rockfalls happen, and where patrols like to camp. She is helpful without being sentimental.

Sand-worn cloak, wrapped hands, a coil of rope that looks like it has been used too often, calm eyes that measure weather and people the same way.

• Practical
• Blunt
• Risk-aware

• Get paid
• Get back alive
• Avoid becoming evidence for anyone

• She has seen fine-gloved ‘inspectors’ hiring guides for the same ridge.
• She knows a second approach route that avoids obvious passes.

• Provides grounding on the approach and a voice that warns without lecturing.
• Can introduce tension by noticing signs of recent passage.

• She can point to a hidden camp site used by other expeditions.
• If treated well, she becomes a recurring route contact.

• factor-salim-jarin — business (He knows who can move people quietly.)
• agent-vaelor — avoids (She knows when a question is a trap.)

Act II, Travel, Dungeon, Guide