AOP:RRE Rashemi

## The Refugees From Rashemen

A score of 20 dwarf-short humans ride in a long covered wagon. With simple clothing and similar, stylistic cues, as well as similar dusky skin and dark hair, it's fairly obvious they all hail from the same region. They speak heavily accented Common to outsiders but another language (Rashemi) when amongst themselves.

They're brave enough, but not foolhardy, and will attempt to do the right thing if the situation is desperate, though they're in no hurry to prove themselves. They tend to keep to themselves, though every now and then, one will peel off, wander about and ask questions.

If asked, they are on a collective ritual Dajemma (also spelled darjemma), a type of coming-of-age tradition for young Rashemi men to travel to foreign lands to see and understand more of the world. That's not the whole truth by any means, and if a PC picks at it even a little bit, a companion will join them and divulge that their homeland was in Rashemen, on the border of Thay.

*Was*.

Their home is now Thayvian.

### Misfits Among Their Own

The women typically aspire to be part of the Witches of Rashemen, while the men should honing their beserker warrior skills as an army of Rashemen barbarians. The women from the border town didn't have the gift and the men didn't have the fury. Out of tune with their own peoples, the elders of the neighboring region encouraged them embark on the Dajemma... and perhaps find new lives where they fit in better...

"Out there."

Given the tight system their people need to keep the Thayvians at bay, they have sought lands where they could both be accepted, and learn to melt in to a greater group. After hearing Thayvians curse Stonehearth, that name seemed like a good place to go, and now they're working their way there.

### When Home Is No Longer Home

They won't speak the name of their village, and they knew of their outsider status long before the attack, but there was always a place for them among the commons. This group, as it is, was only spared because they'd begun their journey away from home a day before the attacks.

Usually, in a Dajemma, the men were aspiring warriors and the women were young witches. Given their lack of talents, there were complications out of the gate. Some of the locals had even called this a cursed group, and it was unknown just why the men lacked the fury and the women lacked the gift. Either way, they returned home when they heard of the attacks to find everyone in the village, elders and children alike, slaughtered.

They escaped and began their one-way Dajemma.

### Souls in Shadow

This group has gone through absolutely crushing defeat. Families murdered, some missing (possibly enslaved – which is a Thayvian practice), unarmed with their traditional armaments, rejected by their own people... this group is in a deep existential trough. Stonehearth is a bare pinpoint of light in the distance, but besides each other, it's all they've got.

There are only six family names among them, but nobody in this group is actually related to each other anymore than a distant second cousin.

Hindra Chergoba (F), Yuldra Chergoba (F), Borivik Chergoba (M), Hulmarra Dyernina (F), Tammith Dyernina (F), Faurgar Dyernina (M), Immith Iltazyara (F), Fyevarra Iltazyara (F), Jandar Iltazyara (M), Idrava Murnyethara (F), Shevarra Murnyethara (F), Kanithar Murnyethara (M), Imzel Stayanoga (F), Sahannra Stayanoga (F), Madislak Stayanoga (M), Ralmevik Stayanoga (M), Navarra Ulmokina (F), Shindriva Ulmokina (F), Shaumar Ulmokina (M), and Vladislak Ulmokina (M)

 Once they've found what they're looking for, it's highly likely that their stat bloc will blossom, at least in the Charisma column, as they burn off the shadows of the miserable memories.

## Where To From Here?

* **AOP: Random Road Encounters**
* **AOP: Mission Progression**