Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She carries a battered hand crossbow and tarnished trident as well. She has done her best to style her silver hair to look like a famous performer. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Mardnab is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: Mardnab lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Extrovert, Optimist. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He very much looks the part of a Hunter. With a patchy red beard and wild red hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is a great chef.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. 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 Hunter. He struck the Hunter job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 30000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 4'10" and muscular, this eastern woman wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Malquis was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Malquis liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Soapmaker responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 100 gp. Sard (70 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 3'3" and dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a black coat with green slacks. His auburn hair and beard is wavy and long. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. The war was a terrible time for him, and Hupe does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. 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 Sculptor. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by gnolls. Hupe was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: Many gnolls want him driven away; and he wants revenge against gnolls

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Military, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 2400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.