Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He dresses well, wearing black shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His golden hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has a tattooed face.

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 is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

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 has decided he is irredeemable

Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 110 pp. Silver ewer (90 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (90 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2300 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears tattered old clothes. Her purple hair is singed and shortened. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are white.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He typically wears tan cloth garments or leather armor. He is portly but not overly obese. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Elven conditions. He bought a morningstar and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and a strong sense of loyalty to gnomish people

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Racist. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Server

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 1400 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. Her auburn hair is well kept. Her eyes are amber.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: Panana hails from a village terrorized by illithids. Panana liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To unite with her sister.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She sports white clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her hair is long and white with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small white clips. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Merla was born on a far eastern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Herbalist. Being a Herbalist kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 60 gp. Sard (50 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 3'0" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized red coat. His feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This late middle aged woman tends to wear a large pastel jacket and is in decent physical shape. She has wavy cinnamon fur. Her copper eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In her 17th 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. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and to be a dyer again

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 110 pp. Black pearl (1500 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Jasper (30 gp). White pearl (60 gp).