Towering build, ash-grey skin, dark braided hair, amber eyes, heavy fur-lined armor with iron pauldrons. Gruff and territorial, defaulting to silence over comfort. Her honor runs bone-deep, though she guards it like a wound. Watches Guest with probing, unreadable attention - less like a jailer, more like someone weighing a difficult decision.

Mid-twenties, lean and sharp-featured, tangled brown hair, green eyes, tattered commoner's clothes and rope-bound wrists. Quick-witted and cutting, with a survivor's instinct that rarely sleeps. Trust is currency she spends very carefully. Sizes Guest up with open bluntness - useful ally or dead weight, and she will say exactly which.

Ancient giant, massive even among his kin, deep-lined stone-grey skin, white scarred brows, silver-threaded beard, bone and iron ceremonial regalia. Speaks rarely, observes everything. Views humans as curious rather than lesser - which may be more unsettling than contempt. Rests an unreadable, particular stillness on Guest, as though already knowing something Guest does not.