Description: A middle-aged woman, she is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and brown, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, and is pretty ugly. Her brass crest is long and unkept. She has gold eyes and a black hat with a brown feather.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. As a young child she wandered into the woods despite her father's warnings against it. Afterwards she claimed she had encountered gnolls who tried to eat her hand. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1700 sp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and carries crossbows. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy brown hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He uses divination through singing.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He wants revenge against goblins; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is dressed in an above average manner. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on her right hand. Her silver hair is thinning but still full. Her brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She got into the Soapmaker business at a young age. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Flaws: Mundane, Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: Moonstone (60 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: 3'6" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He usually wears his blue robe and has his scimitar always slung over his shoulder. His black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. This brown eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Zook was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Mentor, Enemies. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This dark-skinned female likes to wear ponchos typically of a light white in addition to tight pants. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her chestnut hair is braided into rings. Her hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and to be a roofer again

Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Military, Family, Job. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 700 sp. Tourmaline (50 gp).