Description: She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She carries a battered scimitar and tarnished ceremonial dagger as well. She sports blonde long hair. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. 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 raised in a plains tribe. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Painter they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Detective, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a brown coat over a green low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon his head. His golden hair is braided into rings. His eyes are gray.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Born in the south to a Spice Merchant, Adelard learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and balancing his hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His blonde hair is thinning but still full. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Dwarf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 3000 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp).

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest, marred by chocolates. His golden hair, when down, is lengthy. 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 is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Optimist, Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, PTSD. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 8000 cp. Carnelian (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her fur is orange and very short. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Tricking lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Unemployed they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Fisher, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. He is physically well-built. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He got into the Shepherd business at a young age. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He has worked as a Shepherd like his father before him.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Cynical, PTSD. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with blue slacks. Her hair is short and black. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this eastern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. She worked as a nervous Laborer and found it very stressful. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job, In love. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 400 gp. Rock crystal (50 gp). Sard (50 gp). Black pearl (600 gp).