Description: She has a missing right arm. She dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a black coat with grey slacks. Her hair is black and very short. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the south. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has done his best to style his auburn hair to look like a famous performer. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Carrie grew up listening to his mother's many stories. Carrie abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Justice. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Cloth of gold vestments (140 gp).

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She has a large tan mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her black robe. She wears her black hair up in a very large beehive style do. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: Irann was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. In her 15th 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 now owns her own business.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and expand her business

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: He wears a fancy green suit. His brown hair is braided into rings. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the desert to a summer home near a old dungeon. He would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the desert due to the painful memories there. Akmen took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up whip and armor he uses now. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and 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

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Criminal record, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 70 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull white iron scale mail. His white hair has been sun bleached extensively. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. When Vanuath reached his early adolescence his Elf mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Impulsive. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 400 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a fancy green suit. He has done his best to style his red hair to look like a famous performer. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his music with anyone who is interested.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He has never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her lance, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. She has silver hair. Her skin is flawless and her green eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Shautha was born the youngest of three triplets. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Half-Elven compassion; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 600 pp. Jeweled electrum ring (3000 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (110 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1800 gp). Solid gold idol (200 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. 1 Minor magic item.