Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She has a very tight haircut. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her 18th year, her parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Pearl alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and many gnolls want her driven away

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Athletic. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: He is dressed in a clean white cloak covering his clean studded leather. He carries with him a set of flails on his belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. His long white hair reaches down to his waist. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Lubash lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict, Selfish. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 300 pp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (900 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (900 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This western woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has moderate length chestnut hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Through the years after Adrie was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Adrie's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 100 gp. Aquamarine (1600 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is dressed in a clean red cloak covering her clean studded leather, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She has a long chestnut ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Verna is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 6 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Verna never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge.

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: In love, Enemies, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 6000 sp. Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Amber (140 gp). Rose (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.