Description: This slender woman stands about 6'8". She wears a worn and beaten armor. She keeps her long rusty crest kept up in a rat tail. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the south. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is greedy

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: An older woman who is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes., she is not a threatening figure. Her bronze crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of orcs may trigger it at times.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. 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: She is greedy; and revenge

Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Enemies, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 700 sp. Peridot (20 gp).

Description: This malnourished man is wearing a tight brown one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. With a patchy white beard and wild white hair. His brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. Ernest is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Knight they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Weaver, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Poor, Family, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He carries with him a set of daggers, each one with a opal on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He has shaved his head bald. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Nordak was orphaned to a temple shortly after his birth. He was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above himself and to hold his god always in his heart. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Philantrophist. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She usually wears her blue robe and has her greataxe always slung over her shoulder. Her hair is long and brown with streaks of golden, and is pulled back with small blue clips. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Mella hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was raised in a mountains tribe. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Secretive. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Breastplate.