Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She is a great chef.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. Some 4 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Marigold never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: In love, Rich. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her rapier with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has red hair. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Apothecary arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she wants to get laid

Ideals: Passionate, Logical, Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 100 gp. Sardonyx (40 gp).

Description: With red face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. When Cressel reached his early adolescence his Tiefling father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Military. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He is portly but not overly obese. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Sculptor but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A freak accident while working with his Farmer mother left him crippled. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Pacifist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Sporting a white mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. A true patriot, Nalaed would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was born in a small mountains village. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Nalaed grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Nalaed. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Poor, Military, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Half-Plate.