Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her red robe. She sports brown long hair. Her hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. In her 10th year, her parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Nella alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 60 gp. Rhodochrosite (10 gp).

Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times, and she perpetually has her pickaxe ready. Her auburn hair is knotted and matted. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Balifra liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Balifra fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 120 gp. Red spinel (110 gp).

Description: This man wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His blonde hair is braided into rings. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his amber eyes.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Dwarves. Her skin is dark but she possesses many pastel ritualistic tattoos. She wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants. Her moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Hlin was born the youngest of three triplets. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Debt. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 30 gp.