Description: She typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor, and carries hand crossbows. Her red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. She has brown eyes and a black hat with a tan feather.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She worked as a nervous Banker and found it very stressful. Recently the stress of being a Banker has made it difficult for her to sleep.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac, Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She carries a battered trident and tarnished sword as well. She has slicked back white hair. Her gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her father. When Mella reached her early adolescence her Half-Elf father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Mella was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and revenge

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Bloodstone (50 gp). Zircon (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears suspenders and black workpants. Her shirt is violet, and she wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. She has slicked back golden hair. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

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. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Mundane, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 100 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his halberd, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. His brown hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: She is wearing a long, violet cloak. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She wears her golden hair up. Her brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Avice 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 has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Healer. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she has a crush on the local healer

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 270 gp. Chrysoprase (20 gp).

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He likes to wear grey tank tops with green pants. His auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his green eyes.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. 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: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. After coming to the age of reason, Ulfgar took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 80 pp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: He wears tan robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a bow, but if one is not available he will default to his mace. He carries with him a set of maces, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His blonde hair is thinning but still full. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with his Dilettante father left him crippled. 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. Ivellios fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and a strong sense of loyalty to gnomish people

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Shy, Selfish. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: Just what you see.