Description: She wears a tan shirt with thin red vertical stripes and brown pants. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has gray eyes and a tan hat with a red feather.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Knight. 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: The child of a Seamstress, who enjoyed hunting, Mardnab was taken on many hunting expeditions. A gifted student she started as a Seamstress, but she got bored and became a Knight. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister.

Bonds: Job, Family, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 3'4" when asserting herself. Her auburn hair is long and unkept. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Gnomes in Tana's homeland. Tana decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and she would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Immigrant. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 200 gp. Moonstone (30 gp). Deep green spinel (100 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp).

Description: He is in excellent shape and prefers to wear flannel. His auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. She is bald on top and has large chestnut tufts of hair around her ears. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She became a Detective soon after.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is her passion; and to be a sailor again

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 220 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he is wearing a long, red, dusty cloak. His golden hair is knotted and matted. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. After a long history of fighting, Bhevek and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Passionate, Professionalism, Artistic, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 3000 cp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp). 1 Everburning torch.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears black trousers with tan and brown striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. She is baby faced.

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, Shax is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has worked as a Merchant like her father before her.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Halflings. His skin is dark but he possesses many black ritualistic tattoos. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length chestnut hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1600 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (90 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.