Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her blue hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. Her red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is an amazing painter.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: Jasper (50 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Amber (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has styled his brown hair well, parting it to the left. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Oppleby was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. 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: To share knowledge with the world; and money/treasure

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Selfish, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He usually wears his green robe and has his quarterstaff always slung over his shoulder. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly quarterstaffs and whips. His silver hair, when down, is lengthy. This gold eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born at the edge of vast forest. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Marbas was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Flaws: Sensitive, Forgetful. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Military. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a blue and brown robe with the hood down. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His tied-back hair is black. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. In his 18th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insane, Fearful, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 200 gp.