Description: This tall, slender woman wears a red wide-brimmed hat and red clothes. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Because her father participated in the massacre of their homeland, illithids burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the east, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her mother from journeying east to reunite her family. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp).

Description: He stands about 5'9" and is dressed in earthy colors with a yellow and black handkerchief worn on his left side. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His silver hair is braided into rings. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Norman lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. When Norman reached his early adolescence his Half-Elf mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Military. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 200 sp. Golden pearl (150 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She sports green clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her crest is blue and curly. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Furrele grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Furrele. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A 4'9" northern woman, she usually wears her violet robe and has her greataxe always slung over her shoulder. Her golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Anne is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born at the edge of vast mountains. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: To protect her home; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Family, Guardian. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.