Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. Her auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Nyx lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 north. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'6". She wears a violet coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon her head. She sports a flattop hair cut. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She is an amazing painter.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: With red face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull brown iron scale mail. He wears a colorful flower in his black hair. His white eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Servant. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1100 sp. Brown-green garnet (50 gp). Golden pearl (50 gp). Citrine (20 gp). 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: She is renowned for her bright brown dresses and hats. She carries with her a set of axes, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her silver hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: Finellen lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Addict. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 700 sp. Iolite (80 gp).