Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears suspenders and violet workpants. Her shirt is black, and she wears a heavy violet leather apron most of the time, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her golden hair is long and unkept. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Ahlyssa was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Optimist, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Military. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 600 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1400 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp).

Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and wears a brown vest and prefers red and grey shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her brown hair is matted, messy, and big. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Jacoba liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Gnomish compassion.

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Amber (110 gp). Brown-green garnet (110 gp). Fire opal (1300 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a robe, a symbol of strength around his neck, and a greatsword on his belt. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Engraver who has hired him part-time. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He dropped out of school to support his sick mother, and resented it. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 5'8". She wears bulky grey painted plate armor, and her gloved hand is found clutching a lance. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length auburn hair. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Religious, Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She prefers to wear green pants and tee shirts. Her silver hair is singed and shortened. She has red eyes.

Personality: She hates drow. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is renowned for her bright black dresses and hats. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She wears her purple hair up. Her gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with writing. She constantly tries to fill her life with writing. 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: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Disease, Ugly. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Carter

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 7000 sp.

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She has done her best to style her silver hair to look like a famous performer. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Anne was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Commoner, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Commoner in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Elven activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Elven doctor. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Family. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1500 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.