Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears just a black suit. Her crest is cut close to her head. Her gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: She was born at the edge of vast island. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Amethyst (130 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and usually wears his blue robe and has his bow always slung over his shoulder. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His red hair is lengthy. He has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the north were limited. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Fletcher. Her fur is short and orange. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Quick was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A gifted student she started as a Painter, but she got bored and became a Fletcher. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Painter they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Fletcher, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Emotional, Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 2000 gp. Red garnet (80 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Sard (70 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Jet (80 gp). White pearl (80 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears a brown vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her grey leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her brown boots flare out at the collars. She is portly but not overly obese. Her brown fur is knotted and matted. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She has worked as a Map Maker like her mother before her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Military, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 400 sp. Smoky quartz (30 gp).

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She prefers to wear flannel. Her silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. 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: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Bookbinder. She became a Bookbinder soon after.

Motivation: To be a Fletcher again.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a blue vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His yellow leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his blue boots flare out at the collars. His tied-back hair is auburn. His fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. A true patriot, Thervan would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1400 gp. Hematite (10 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Jade (150 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Rose (20 gp).

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Elaim isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Dwarven unity. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. Elaim was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Elaim decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 50 gp.