Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears tattered old clothes, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by gnolls. Nurkara was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: Many gnolls want her driven away; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: 4'0" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She has moderate length blonde hair. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gray.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: She wears a red vest and prefers brown and violet shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She is physically well-built. With wild golden hair. This amber eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Lazy, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his flail with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His crest is black and curly. His gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. The war was a terrible time for him, and Shedinn does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Shedinn has worked very hard to control his curse. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Poor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 90 gp.