Description: The light-skinned woman stands 4'9" and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her white hair is matted, messy, and big. She has violet eyes.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father.

Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Disease. Bonds: Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 100 gp. Star rose quartz (70 gp). Sard (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 6'7", this man wears a white cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. His golden hair, when down, is lengthy. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his amber eyes.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Rich, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 270 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Orla hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She got into the Marshal business at a young age. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is greedy; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 4000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Kelter is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: She wears a green tunic with black highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around her shoes. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her red hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a card scrunchie. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it; and she wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: This malnourished man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. Oppleby was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Oppleby decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1200 sp. Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp).

Description: This malnourished woman likes to wear tan tank tops with brown skirt. She has moderate length black hair. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Quelenna was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Miner hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and balancing her hectic life and new miner responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Philantrophist, Professionalism. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Just what you see.