Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered black stockings, and is pretty ugly. He keeps his white hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the east. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. Some 10 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Oppleby never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, In love. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: She is typically in her Layabout uniform. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has dyed her greying blue crest a little too much giving a sharp blue color. Her gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Born in the east to a Layabout, Nala learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Layabout for the past few years.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Disease, Selfish, Shy. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 4'4" and wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this eastern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tiefling artifacts is his passion; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (160 gp).

Description: He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He has dyed his greying black crest a little too much giving a sharp black color. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He hates orcs. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Pijjirik was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Crown-heir for the past few years.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: Freshwater pearl (7 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.