Description: This tall, slender woman likes to wear black tank tops with red skirt. Her auburn hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. 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 filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Vola lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her first spouse was a Doctor, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Insomniac, Secretive. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, marred by teas. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy silver hair. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. A freak accident while working with his Sage mother left him crippled. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Family, Poor. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: Jet (60 gp).

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Selfish, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Emerald (800 gp). Red spinel (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Human companion (her 'brother'). She has achieved small success as a Brewer.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: Rock crystal (20 gp).

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He is portly but not overly obese. His hair is blonde and curly. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of drow once and for all.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and he desires to right it; and revenge

Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 140 gp. Deep green spinel (60 gp).

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her hair is cut close to her head. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. In her 12th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Emen never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Philantrophist, Impeccable. Flaws: Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 700 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her golden hair is greasy and uncared for. 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 quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. A gifted student she started as a Unemployed, but she got bored and became a Actor. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 300 gp.