Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright violet and green, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: She hates drow. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Born in the south to a Miner, Mary learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Mary abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Miner responsibilities is difficult; and to protect her home

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Job, Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 1500 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1800 gp).

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 17000 sp. Coral (70 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Coral (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His golden hair is lengthy. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: The child of a Cook, who enjoyed hunting, Stannor was taken on many hunting expeditions. He 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. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Stannor fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing a tight brown one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. With a patchy silver beard and wild silver hair. He has violet eyes and a brown hat with a violet feather.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Bricklayer. He has worked as a Bricklayer like his father before him.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 80 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a red collared shirt and black pants. He accessorizes with a green scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His black hair is still thick. He has hazel eyes and a red hat with a black feather.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He worked as a nervous Hunter and found it very stressful. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Hunter for the past few years.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and to be a blacksmith again

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist, Greedy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His hair is cut close to his head. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Elves in the north were limited. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Shy, Lazy. Bonds: Immigrant, Military, Job, Religious. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 4000 gp. Chrysoberyl (150 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Chrysoberyl (150 gp). Rose (50 gp). Malachite (10 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He sports a flattop hair cut. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Shágflak 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 Shágflak. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

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 terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Jeweler

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

Possessions: 20 gp.