Description: This woman likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on her left hand. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Xanaphia lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Pacifist, Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, Family, Attractive. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 3000 cp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (100 gp).

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears a red cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His brown hair is lengthy. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Fulbar was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the west were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Expand his business; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: She wears a tattered pair of loose yellow pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She is portly but not overly obese. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her eyes are blue.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Half-Elf in existence. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the north. In her 13th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: He wears just a brown suit. He wears a colorful flower in his white hair. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Chad is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Chad was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Poor, Family. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1800 sp.