Description: This slender woman stands about 5'4". She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her tied-back hair is brown. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

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. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Elves in Malquis's homeland. Malquis decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This late middle aged woman has a large blue mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her green robe and is in decent physical shape. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Claira lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She is content; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Optimist, Professionalism. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 160 pp. Rock crystal (50 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Canary diamond (4000 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her longsword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has done her best to style her auburn hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are amber.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Paela was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious, Poor, Nature. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 2600 gp. Solid gold idol (500 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1600 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a white costume with the symbols of magic on his torso. He has moderate length auburn hair. This gray eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 110 pp. A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a white shirt with thin black vertical stripes and grey pants. He is an epitome of beauty. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Mogg embodies much of what other species detest in the Half-Orcs. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

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. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Smokesticks.