Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. Her red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Shautha was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. 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: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 220 gp.

Description: This southern woman is abnormally tall. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and yellow, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She has dyed her greying scarlet crest a little too much giving a sharp scarlet color. Her gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Dragonborns in Gesrethe's homeland. Gesrethe decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a brown feathered hat and brown clothes. He keeps his red fur in a flapper bob. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Barrister. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was born into a rich family. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Barrister. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Revenge; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Nature, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: Rose (20 gp).

Description: This northern woman is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and green handkerchief worn on her left side. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has no fur. She has copper eyes and a brown hat with a green feather.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: Ethereal was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. Because her mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, gnolls burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her father from journeying north to reunite her family. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 310 gp.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. She wears a simple violet robe with brown stripes complete with hood, marred by beers. She has styled her silver hair well, parting it to the right. Her brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. The war was a terrible time for her, and Ahinar does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Ahinar was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Poor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 500 gp. Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). White pearl (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.