Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft yellow waves gently in the breeze. Her blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Nurkara is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She has all her life been fascinated with poetry.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He has no hair. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. The war was a terrible time for him, and Ahvain does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 2400 sp.

Description: She prefers to wear blue pants and tee shirts. She is portly but not overly obese. She keeps her chestnut hair in a pixie cut. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Shepherd profession.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, 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. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and to be a shepherd again

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length auburn hair. Her eyes are likewise green. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 20. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Helja lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Baker hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Poor. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. He likes to wear brown tank tops with white pants. He has a hunchback. His brown hair is cut short. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Alberich was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 40 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).