Description: She is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. She is physically well-built. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Job, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His rusty crest is heavily combed to the right. His eyes are gold and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the east. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by gnolls. Direcris was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a tan shirt, with a brown mid length shorts with brown tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are blue.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant, Guardian. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 400 gp. Smoky quartz (60 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears just a violet suit. He has wavy brown hair. He has blue eyes and a violet hat with a blue feather.

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. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He got into the Soapmaker business at a young age. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Expand his business; and tiefling compassion

Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 7000 gp. Chrysoberyl (60 gp). Jade (60 gp). Moss agate (8 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). 1 Medium magic item.