Description: This woman prefers to wear blue clothing when she does not wear armor. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her blonde hair is thinning but still full. This blue eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. 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, Naivara is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She found a children's book about a Elf Bard who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs, and is pretty ugly. Her long copper crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Joker, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 4000 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2000 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (140 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern woman wears bulky tan painted plate armor. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has wavy silver hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Shamil was born on a far northern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Bowyer. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: A deep hatred of goblins; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Joker, Professionalism. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 45000 sp. 4 Antitoxin. 8 Acid flasks. 4 Antitoxin.

Description: She usually wears her brown robe and has her greatsword always slung over her shoulder. She is portly but not overly obese. Her brown hair is braided into rings. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Rosalind was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She found a children's book about a Human Bard who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has dedicated herself to building a better world.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a tan collared shirt and grey pants. He accessorizes with a pastel scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He is physically well-built. He wears a colorful flower in his silver hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Elf in existence. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Heian was born with his father's beautiful face. 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 used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Justice, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 6'6". She wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and money/treasure

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1100 gp. Blue star sapphire (1300 gp).

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is wearing a long, grey cloak. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He is mildly Dwarf supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the north were limited. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He is content; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Racist, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 60 gp. Deep green spinel (110 gp). 1 Magnifying glass.