Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears tattered old clothes. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Silaqui was born on a far eastern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Knight. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Many gnolls want her driven away.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 4000 sp. Citrine (50 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Banded agate (15 gp).

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. His hair is short and white. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. A true patriot, Manfred would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Manfred has worked very hard to control his curse. 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. Manfred fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 100 sp. Eye agate (14 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her golden hair is wavy and long. Her green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Eva was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears a white shirt with thin green vertical stripes and grey pants. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. He is baby faced.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is obsessed with his god.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the east. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Persistence, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 2100 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her childhood dream was to be a Detective, but she was a colossal failure. She tends to her Hunter job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 800 pp. Red spinel (70 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.