Description: This younger middle-aged woman has the majority of her body covered in plate, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She has styled her black hair well, parting it to the left. Her amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. In her 12th year, her parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Orla alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: In love, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 130 pp. Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Hematite (5 gp).

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. His black eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Brewer who has hired him part-time. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature pickaxe.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Has a crush, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 50 pp. A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (40 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1900 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a worn and beaten armor. His black hair is heavily combed to the left. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Skog lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 500 gp. Onyx (60 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp).

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. She carries with her a set of sickles, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her bronze crest is thinning but still full. She has a dull look in her gold eyes.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of orcs once and for all.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Eggren fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Artistic. Bonds: Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 250 gp. Hematite (15 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). 4 Holy water.