Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a brown costume with the symbols of luck on her torso. Her yellow fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. 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: Leaf was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Logical, Persistence. Bonds: Religious, Rich. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 30 pp. Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She is portly but not overly obese. She has done her best to style her chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and 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

Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 130 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is wearing a long, pastel, dusty cloak. She has moderate length yellow fur. Her eyes are yellow and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by gnolls. Gale was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and she wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 9000 gp. Emerald (1300 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Hematite (7 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1300 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). Blue star sapphire (1300 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1300 gp). Golden pearl (150 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Black star sapphire (1300 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He stands about 4'4" and wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His auburn hair is braided into rings. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 250 gp.

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He has a long red beard with little hanging trinkets. His green eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson black hat.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Logical, Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Black opal (1600 gp). Banded agate (13 gp).

Description: He usually wears his black robe and has his trident always slung over his shoulder. His black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines black.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Cimer lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 7000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man is dressed in a clean grey cloak covering his clean studded leather, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: To protect his home.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: In love, Guardian, Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 40 pp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.