Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull white iron scale mail. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 77. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Religious, Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 300 pp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (170 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (170 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1800 gp). Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 4'0" northern woman, she tends to wear a brown poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She keeps her chestnut hair in a flapper bob. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Diesa lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister.

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Deep green spinel (160 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Blue sapphire (1400 gp).

Description: A 5'3" eastern man, he wears tattered old clothes. His brown hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Herbalist business.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his 17th year, his parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Aust alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Pacifist, Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. Her moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born to a Sailor, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her red hair is smooth and relatively long. She has amber eyes and a blue hat with a white feather.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 40 pp. Amber (70 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Sard (70 gp).