Description: 5'8" and muscular, this eastern woman tends to wear a large brown jacket. She sports a flattop fur cut. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. The war was a terrible time for her, and Emerald does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She married young, but lost her spouse to gnolls. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 230 pp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (30 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (700 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (700 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (800 gp).

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. Her chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Performer arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Performer. She has worked as a Performer like her father before her.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Disciplined, Joker. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1000 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (600 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a green costume with the symbols of magic on her torso. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She has dyed her greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered dancing. She has dedicated herself to building a better village for her children.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Elven artifacts is her passion; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist, Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 40000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Sporting a auburn mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Vondal is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Vondal fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 170 gp. Blue sapphire (600 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Pink pearl (120 gp).