Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears baggy red pantaloons and a grey scarf, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She has a very tight haircut. Her violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Nora wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Adept, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. When Nora reached her early adolescence her Halfling mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Nora never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting. Bonds: In love, Nature, Military. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amber on her right hand. Her chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a mite stocky and prefers to wear tan clothing when he does not wear armor. He keeps his white hair in a pixie cut. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Gifted from a young age, Heian studied abroad. Through the years after Heian was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Heian's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end.

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a fancy brown dress. Her black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: Just what you see.