Description: He is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. He wears tattered old clothes. He has a hunchback. He sports a flattop hair cut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tieflings became a terror of the countryside. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This woman dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with grey slacks. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on her left hand. She has no hair. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Merla lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and money/treasure

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She wears a blue armored body suit, with a simple black line shooting up and back down. She is portly but not overly obese. Her silver hair is well kept. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 12. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When Donella reached her early adolescence her Gnome father 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. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Has a crush, Military. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 1000 cp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp).

Description: 5'4" and muscular, this western man tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Thrak hails from a village terrorized by drow. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and many drow want him driven away

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Joker. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 80 gp.