"We’ll be traveling through the desert for the next month.  That is going to be very difficult for us all, except for the Hadari among us.  The Hadari are out here every day and night of their lives; the only clan that actually chooses to live inside the Great Desert of the interior.

The Hadari have no cities or towns; just roving groups of families that move from one place to another, finding whatever scraps they can to get by out in the wastes.  They’ve stayed out of most of the politics and wars between the other clans to act as guides and couriers for anyone who wanted to travel across the desert.  Nobody knows the desert like the Hadari, who still manage to harvest the rare alchemical substances they need to make their salves, acids and poisons that they are famous for.

The Hadari aren’t the only ones living out here though.  In addition to the desert predators, there are gangs of bandits that retreat into the wastes to get away and hide.  If we’re not careful, we could wind up with our heads bashed in or our throats cut out here.  Some folks even go so far as to say the bandits are nothing more than the Hadari themselves.  After all, there have been groups to start out across the desert with a Hadari scout who have never been heard from again.

I don’t know whether there is any truth to those rumors, but the Hadari have promised us safe passage as far as they can provide it.  Even they don’t go near Onyx Hollow on a regular basis.  The closer we get to it, the further we get from help of any kind.

Which reminds me, I need one healer and one good warrior to stay near me at all times.  Actually, I’d better make it two good warriors instead."

Milton the Magnificent
Master Bard

Common Races: Desert Elf, Human, Gila, Sun Drake-kin, Children of the Hunt, Renders
Disallowed Races: Gnimari, Slytha

Fighting Skills	General Skills	Earth Spells	Crafting
Archery	First Aid	Spell Level 2	Alchemy 10
Florentine	Healing Arts		Armorsmithing 6
One-Handed Blunt	Read & Write	Stealth Skills	Create Scroll 5
One-Handed Edged	Lore	Backstab +6 / 1 Assassinate/Dodge	Tinkering 4
Polearm	Herbal Lore	Disarm Traps	Weaponsmithing 6
Prof +2	Profession	Pick Locks
Shield	Read Magic	Waylay
Small Weapon	Scavenge
Staff		Seer Skills
Style Master	Celestial Spells	Astrology
Thrown Weapon	Spell Level 4
Two Weapons	Adept Level 2
Two-Handed Blunt
Two-Handed Sword