Bandit

Medium humanoid (any), any non-lawful

Bandits are the most common human threat on the roads of Aethara. They are not professional soldiers --- they are farmers whose crops failed, tradespeople whose shops burned, refugees who never found a settlement that would take them in. Most bandits would rather threaten than fight, and many will retreat if resistance is serious. But hunger and desperation make people dangerous, and a cornered bandit fights like an animal.