Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a grey costume with the symbols of death on his torso. His white hair is cut short. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. 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 east. He bought a axe and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Nature, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She wears tattered old clothes. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her hair is red and curly. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Half-Elves in Valanthe's homeland. Valanthe decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Nature. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 20 pp. Freshwater pearl (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat southern woman has a bulbous nose and wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her black hair, when down, is lengthy. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. 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 a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 2000 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (140 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (70 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1200 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (140 gp). Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Humans. His skin is light but he possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. He likes to wear grey tank tops with brown pants. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 60 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp).

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His hair is long and red with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small yellow clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Born to a Fisher, his mother struggled to pay the bills. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Shy, PTSD, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 230 gp.