Description: This woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has dyed her greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. Her eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Andraste was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: This malnourished man is dressed in earthy colors with a yellow and white handkerchief worn on his left side. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. While he appears to be a normal Half-Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. After a long history of fighting, Shane and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a fancy pastel dress. Her fur, while still mostly orange, has prominent grey streaks. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

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. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing poetry.

History: Kite was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Warrior, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Warrior in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and many gnolls want her driven away

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 30 pp. Eye agate (16 gp).

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her fur is short and gray. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Right-Handed was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Gifted, Justice, Logical. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 400 sp. Moss agate (12 gp).