Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the north were limited. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her hair is black and curly. She has a dull look in her white eyes.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Armara grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 600 sp. Obsidian (11 gp). Red garnet (100 gp). Coral (100 gp).

Description: A 4'2" northern woman, she tends to wear a brown poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. With bright brown hair. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Enemies, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 260 gp.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and he perpetually has his flail ready. His tied-back hair is silver. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Born in the south to a Junk Dealer, Robert learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. A gifted student he started as a Fletcher, but he got bored and became a Junk Dealer. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Mundane, Lazy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 200 gp. Deep green spinel (70 gp).

Description: This eastern man tends to wear a large tan jacket. His clothes are grease stained in places. His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Warryn was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the island to a summer home near a large cave. He would wander through that large cave and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the island due to the painful memories there. Warryn took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up axe and armor he uses now. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.