Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her white hair is thinning but still full. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Thiala will drive conversation. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Bellfounder profession.

History: Thiala hails from a village terrorized by orcs. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Animal Trainer work with an outfit from a few towns over. Animal Trainer work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Extrovert. Bonds: Job, Enemies, In love. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 170 pp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (110 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (110 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp).

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears violet robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a crossbow, but if one is not available he will default to his flail. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: He got into the Mercenary business at a young age. 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 Mercenary. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 380 gp.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. He carries with him a set of nunchakus, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His red crest is smooth and relatively long. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Gorbundus lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dragonborns became a terror of the countryside. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Spy for the past few years.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 1200 gp. Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Black opal (900 gp). Eye agate (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear flannel, and he perpetually has his greatsword ready. He has a very tight haircut. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes goblins are coming to abduct people. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 200 sp. Banded agate (8 gp).