Description: He wears a green cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. His hair is short and black. His eyes are white.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Barakas grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 500 gp. Blue quartz (15 gp). Fire opal (1500 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp).

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Gnome, and stands approximately 3'7". He has a large tan mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his brown robe, and his gloved hand is found clutching a bow. His hair is short and chestnut. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Secretive, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 9000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She prefers to wear tan clothing when she does not wear armor. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 17000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears a brown wide-brimmed hat and brown clothes. He carries with him a set of quarterstaffs, each one with a emerald on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His black fur is heavily combed to the right. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Guardian, Family. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her black hair is still thick. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

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 is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Adrie was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Masseuse for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and expand her business

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She is physically well-built. She has wavy golden hair. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her poetry with anyone who is interested.

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. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Avelina grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Avelina. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Fletcher they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Beggar, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: An older man who wears baggy brown pantaloons and a pastel scarf, he is not a threatening figure. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker brown hat.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. Robert enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Robert was raised in a hard working conservative environment. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Human conditions. He has worked as a Servant like his mother before him.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Shy, Hedonist, Racist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 2100 gp.