Description: A 4'0" northern woman, she wears a grey broad hat and grey clothes. She has a long golden ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: The child of a Mason, who enjoyed hunting, Ilde was taken on many hunting expeditions. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Banker responsibilities is difficult.

Flaws: Disease, Impulsive. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 100 pp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (60 gp).

Description: Standing 4'1", this woman very much looks the part of a Slave Trader. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Slave Trader born in the past three hundred years. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: She was born in the west. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Guardian, Religious. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He wears a tattered pair of loose blue pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He is portly but not overly obese. His golden hair is thinning but still full. His green eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson blue hat.

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 fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the west were limited. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Poor, Family, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: A 4'7" western woman, she wears tan robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a trident, but if one is not available she will default to her scythe. She keeps her long black hair kept up in a rat tail. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when orcs swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs.

Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: In love, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 300 gp.