Description: This late middle aged woman wears a black tunic with tan highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around her shoes and is in decent physical shape. Her white crest is thinning but still full. Her eyes are likewise red.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Military, Rich, Guardian. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 240 pp. Solid gold idol (1000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (140 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a black coat with yellow slacks. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Erdan was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it; and revenge

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Military. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: Gold music box (1000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is typically in his Cartwright uniform, and he perpetually has his longsword ready. His head has been shaved. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Cartwright but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Born in the west to a Cartwright, Beloril learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Beloril fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: She wears a tight fitting green shirt and pants. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her red crest is greasy and uncared for. She has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Joker, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She keeps her dark red hair in a pixie cut. Her red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She uses divination through singing.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Being a Adventurer kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 7000 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (700 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (40 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Silver ewer (40 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (80 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2300 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (700 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (40 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (900 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp).

Description: She wears long strands of amber and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'0" when asserting herself. She wears her black hair down. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Opinionated, Logical, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 2800 sp.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She keeps her long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are green.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. At a young age her mother died while driving off some brigands. Her father being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train her in sickle use. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by brigands. Sannl was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Server

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 400 pp. Sard (50 gp).