Durahan
The navigator and caravan guide for Eldrich the Elder's expedition beyond the Palisade — an older man with a receding hairline and a heavily scarred face, the deliberate carving of a former prisoner of war that he wears openly as proof rather than heal away. Hired out of Keraford and introduced as an old friend of Eldrich's, he keeps the road map and the spare horses and is trusted to thread the caravan along the safe roads (stick to them and bandits swarm; stray and worse waits). His hard-won, reliable air masked his true loyalties.
Two different men
Session 21
- Hired in Keraford as the caravan's guide; travels out with Eldrich's ~15-strong party (alongside Tycho, Liv & Viv, Dr. Provostinalkov and the guards) across the wall into hostile Laewendas country.
Session 22
- Unmasked as the traitor. As the caravan threads Mindel's bridge ambush, Durahan is seen pulling his bandit gear back on and stepping out among the goons — he sold the route to the bandit lord. Eldrich had long feared a mole "who has already betrayed us once," and Durahan proved to be the source. He stays behind with the bandits, now a loose enemy who knows the party.
Met in Session 21; betrayal revealed in Session 22.