Description: This tall, slender woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her hair, while still mostly blue, has prominent grey streaks. She has gold eyes.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: To be a Painter again.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 1400 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Coral (130 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 5'3" and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His black hair is long and unkept. His eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He was raised in a desert tribe. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She has styled her silver hair well, parting it to the right. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Born to a Knight, her father struggled to pay the bills. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to gnolls.

Motivation: Revenge; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 17000 sp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Sard (80 gp). Emerald (900 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Sard (80 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he typically wears blue cloth garments or leather armor. He keeps his red hair in a pixie cut. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Quarion is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has done his best to style his gray fur to look like a famous performer. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He is a Hag in disguise. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life.

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 500 gp. Jasper (40 gp). Malachite (12 gp). Amethyst (150 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Zircon (40 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She wears a colorful flower in her white hair. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. 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: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature bow.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 100 gp. Moonstone (80 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Sard (80 gp).

Description: 3'10" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She wears her black hair down. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. A true patriot, Vistra would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. After a long history of fighting, Vistra and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 600 gp.