Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft yellow waves gently in the breeze. He is physically well-built. He sports a long white beard, and similarly colored long hair. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Blacksmith profession.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She stands about 5'4" and has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. With wild blonde hair. Her blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Emen will drive conversation. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. In her 13th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 100 pp. Moss agate (4 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on her right hand. Her blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She bought a longsword and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict, PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 400 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She keeps her white hair in a pixie cut. She has red eyes.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of orcs may trigger it at times.

History: Phelaia lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 150 gp. Bloodstone (30 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Iolite (30 gp).