Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her chestnut hair is cut short. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Half-Orcs.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and to clean up the streets

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 900 gp. Aquamarine (600 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp).

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He tends to wear a pastel poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His orange fur is lengthy. His ears are large.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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: Money/treasure; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 5'3", this man wears a violet deerstalker hat and violet clothes. Sporting a brown mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Armorer. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Vanuath grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Armorer work with an outfit from a few towns over. Armorer work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Armorer.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 500 gp. Carnelian (40 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Amethyst (60 gp).

Description: He tends to wear a brown poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His white fur is braided into rings. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He worked as a nervous Crown-heir and found it very stressful. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman wears a tight fitting violet shirt and pants. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her hair is chestnut and very short. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Half-Elves.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. After coming to the age of reason, Emeny took it upon herself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed, Racist, Disease. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 34000 sp. 1 Magnifying glass. 1 Magnifying glass. 1 Superior lock. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: An older woman who wears a robe, a symbol of her god around her neck, and a greatsword on her belt, she is not a threatening figure. Her auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Gaaki fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Professionalism. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.