Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. She has blue eyes and a white hat with a black feather.

Personality: Volen is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. 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 son.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature monstrous two handed axe.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and to unite with her brother

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Family, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 3000 gp.

Description: She dresses well, wearing green shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time, and she perpetually has her hammer ready. Her red hair is smooth and relatively long. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Anakis is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 400 sp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp).

Description: He is in excellent shape and prefers to wear yellow pants and tee shirts. He wears his golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are violet.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the north. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Fortune-teller work with an outfit from a few towns over. Fortune-teller work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Fortune-teller responsibilities is difficult; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She wears her red hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her ears are large.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Balifra embodies much of what other species detest in the Dwarves. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Born in the north to a Dyer, Balifra learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Dyer. She has achieved small success as a Dyer.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 80 gp. Aquamarine (300 gp). 1 Everburning torch.

Description: She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with white colored cloaks and clothing. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She sports chestnut long hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her writing with anyone who is interested.

History: Jillian was born with her father's beautiful face. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 110 gp.