Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. He has done his best to style his chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Dûsh lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Family, Attractive. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 13000 sp. Violet garnet (900 gp). Emerald (800 gp). Jet (50 gp). Chrysoberyl (50 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Red spinel (50 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty red coat over it. She has shaved her head bald. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Slave Trader hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To protect her home.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Military, Poor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1600 sp. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His black hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Azaki was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by giants. Azaki was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Revenge; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Enemies, Slave, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 100 gp. Iolite (70 gp).

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'3" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He has dyed his greying bronze crest a little too much giving a sharp bronze color. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. The war was a terrible time for him, and Kriv does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. 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 north. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 20 pp. Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern woman usually wears her tan robe and has her morningstar always slung over her shoulder. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her chestnut hair is cut short. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are hazel.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the south were limited. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 20 gp.