Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He carries with him a set of shortbows on his belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. His brass crest is greasy and uncared for. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Jeweler. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: Brown-green garnet (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She likes to wear blue tank tops with white skirt. Her silver hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her eyes are blue.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Family, Rich, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 300 gp. 4 Alchemist’s fire. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her eyes are likewise green.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the south. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and expand her business

Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 110 pp. Fiery yellow corundum (500 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Braak enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Depressed. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 200 gp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (70 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). 4 Holy water. 4 Holy water. 4 Holy water. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has wavy purple hair. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: Euron hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Euron grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 60 pp. Amber (60 gp). Black pearl (200 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was born into a rich family. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Stableman. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Stableman and was forced into it by her family; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 2000 sp. Bloodstone (20 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Peridot (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull tan iron scale mail, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 4'1" when asserting herself. Her moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Tordrid is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Tordrid was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Wizard, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Wizard in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Tordrid 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 has worked as a Shepherd like her father before her.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and obtaining odd cultural dwarven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 1000 sp.