Description: This woman wears a simple brown robe with black stripes complete with hood, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has a very tight haircut. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Cecily was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered dancing. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Logical, Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: She is a husky woman, who is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She keeps her brown fur in a flapper bob. Her eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Jade was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Dyer. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Dyer for hire.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 900 gp. Moonstone (70 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 3'11" and wears a fancy brown suit. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His silver hair is knotted and matted. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He is a Doppelganger in disguise. A gifted student he started as a Armorer, but he got bored and became a Merchant. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Merchant responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 2000 gp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (90 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (90 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (90 gp).

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 4'8". She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze, and her gloved hand is found clutching a hammer. She has slicked back silver hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Lia is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 1200 gp. Black pearl (1400 gp). Rich purple corundum (1400 gp). Zircon (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a grey and green robe with the hood down. His hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He uses divination through singing.

History: Born in the north to a Animal Trainer, Rolf learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. 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 Animal Trainer. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to be a navigator again

Ideals: Joker, Gifted, Philantrophist, Logical. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 50 gp.