Description: She is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She has a hunchback. Her hair is long and black with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small white clips. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Blossom is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She got into the Guard business at a young age. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and expand her business

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she wears a brown shirt with thin pastel vertical stripes and green pants. With wild silver hair. Her hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Cartwright arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Human conditions. 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 has money and likes to spend it.

Flaws: Terse, Secretive, Racist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 44000 sp. Brown-green garnet (120 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a green collared shirt and yellow pants. He accessorizes with a green scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. 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 to loving parents in a slum to the south. His parents were killed by gnolls in a raid when he was still a young child. The gnolls captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1600 gp. Jasper (80 gp). Black opal (1100 gp).

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She is an epitome of beauty. Her blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and balancing her hectic life and new bricklayer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Slave, Debt. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 320 gp.

Description: A 3'4" eastern woman, she wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She wears her silver hair up. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Adventurer. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Military, Job, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 600 gp.