Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a black shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and blue pants. His crest is rusty and very short. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes goblins are coming to abduct people. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: Shedinn hails from a village terrorized by goblins. In his 11th year, his parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Shedinn alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He wants revenge against goblins.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Sard (30 gp). Blue star sapphire (1600 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears just a brown suit. With bright chestnut hair. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1000 gp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (40 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (170 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (170 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (170 gp).

Description: She stands about 5'5" and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright yellow and green, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She has moderate length auburn hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: She was born at the edge of vast plains. Theirastra was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Theirastra decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. After months of barely getting by, Theirastra managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, she made her way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and yellow, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His tied-back hair is silver. This hazel eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Tanner born in the past three hundred years. He is an amazing painter.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Diggory was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His childhood dream was to be a Glassblower, but he was a colossal failure. Some 5 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Diggory never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Job, Mentor, In love, Has a crush. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 12000 sp.