Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her black hair is well kept. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by giants. Nora was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Many giants want her driven away; and revenge

Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 20 pp. Malachite (14 gp). Banded agate (14 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

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 submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Merchant arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He worked as a nervous Merchant and found it very stressful. He tends to his Merchant job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and money/treasure

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: In love, Rich, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 400 gp. Moonstone (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is renowned for her bright red dresses and hats. She is portly but not overly obese. Her silver hair is wavy and long. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her painting with anyone who is interested.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the south. 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 ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Banker for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Family, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 2000 sp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1600 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright grey and yellow, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, he is not a threatening figure. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Apothecary. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He struck the Apothecary job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: Just what you see.