Description: This woman is very fat, and prefers to wear tan pants and tee shirts. She has slicked back blonde hair. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Carlin speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Gnomes in Carlin's homeland. Carlin decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Impeccable, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her chestnut hair is knotted and matted. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: An older woman who likes to wear grey tank tops with pastel skirt, she is not a threatening figure. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Balifra wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Commoner, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Revenge; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1200 sp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a black vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his black boots flare out at the collars. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. Ashgarn is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Ashgarn liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He is content.

Flaws: Cynical, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a brown tunic with blue highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around his shoes. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his sickle, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. He keeps his long gray fur kept up in a rat tail. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He got into the Map Maker business at a young age. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. In the meantime he has taken over work as a Map Maker and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: He wants revenge against goblins; and many goblins want him driven away

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 400 gp. Tourmaline (150 gp). Jade (150 gp).