Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears long strands of ruby and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Tawar never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Nature, In love. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 1000 gp. Smoky quartz (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). Fire opal (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She stands about 3'0" and is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She has wavy silver hair. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 1700 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her green eyes.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Juliana lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her first spouse was a Navigator, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Enemies, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a brown tunic with pastel highlights, and long grey pants that bunch up around her shoes. She keeps her long cinnamon fur kept up in a rat tail. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. 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: Ethereal lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1100 gp. Eye agate (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear brown clothing when he does not wear armor. He carries with him a set of monstrous two handed axes on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. He has a black handlebar mustache and slicked back black hair. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body and is in decent physical shape. Her long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She got into the Unemployed business at a young age. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Military, Job, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears tattered old clothes. Her crest is gold and very short. She has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing painting.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 4000 gp. Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Jade (40 gp). Red garnet (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.