Description: This tall, slender woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. She has wavy silver hair. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Silaqui liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Silaqui fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Adventurer; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Professionalism, Fighting. Bonds: Job, Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: Star rose quartz (70 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a tight fitting blue shirt and pants. He sports a long auburn beard, and similarly colored long hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the west were limited. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She carries with her a set of flails on her belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. Her white fur is still thick. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Painter arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. 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: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty yellow coat over it. His silver hair and beard is wavy and long. He has hazel eyes and a yellow hat with a white feather.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 27000 cp.

Description: She wears a brown collared shirt and black skirt. She accessorizes with a green scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She has slicked back brown hair. Her eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: She hates Dwarves with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. 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: Whurdred hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and revenge

Flaws: Racist, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Debt. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 130 gp. 1 Crowbar.