Description: She has a missing right arm. She wears a worn and beaten armor. Her white hair is matted, messy, and big. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and revenge

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 9000 gp. Jasper (70 gp). Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Jet (40 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp).

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She has dyed her greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. She has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. A true patriot, Mastema would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Mastema was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Mastema fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Tailor

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

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

Description: He wears a blue vest and prefers brown and red shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His golden hair is long and unkept. His ears are large.

Personality: He hates Elves with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Bookbinder for the past few years.

Motivation: Tabaxi compassion; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Military, Religious. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 300 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Shepherd business.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. 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: He's repulsed by the PC; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: She wears a grey vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her grey boots flare out at the collars. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She has chestnut hair. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. Juliana enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 700 sp. Freshwater pearl (6 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears bulky brown painted plate armor. She has styled her brown fur well, parting it to the left. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She has all her life been fascinated with poetry.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. 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. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Lapis lazuli (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With yellow face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a green coat with yellow slacks. Her crest is white and very short. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. In her 13th year, her parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Nuthra alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Many brigands want her driven away.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Chain shirt.