Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She keeps her long red hair kept up in a rat tail. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. The war was a terrible time for her, and Mardnab does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Mardnab fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 100 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1100 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he tends to wear a large white jacket. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is a great chef.

History: He got into the Body Guard business at a young age. Through the years after Nelkin was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Nelkin's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Body Guard.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Greedy. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 19000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. Her red hair is long and unkept. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. In her 12th year, her parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Tawna alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. 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 possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 4000 cp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp).

Description: He dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with red slacks. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His hair is white and curly. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. After a long history of fighting, Dustin and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and to be a body guard again

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears a white coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon his head. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is short and white. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady brown eyes.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Born in the south to a Merchant, Druuk learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has worked as a Merchant like his mother before him.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Has a crush, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 10000 gp. Tourmaline (90 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Coral (90 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Fire opal (1200 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Blue sapphire (1200 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Jet (90 gp). Golden pearl (90 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Amber (90 gp). Clear bright green emerald (7000 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.