Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull brown iron scale mail. His silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with singing. He constantly tries to fill his life with singing. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he's in love

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, In love, Has a crush. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 2100 gp. Moss agate (6 gp). Jet (60 gp). Golden pearl (60 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He has wavy brown hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 500 pp. Jet (110 gp). Emerald (1400 gp). Rich purple corundum (1400 gp). Eye agate (10 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Rose (70 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Sard (70 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Pink diamond (5000 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: An older woman who wears a simple green robe with white stripes complete with hood, she is not a threatening figure. She wears a colorful flower in her rusty crest. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Miller arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 5000 gp. Red spinel (150 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Amethyst (150 gp). Coral (150 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Golden pearl (150 gp). Malachite (13 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Blue star sapphire (900 gp). Coral (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his flail with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. He is baby faced.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Balam liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Balam fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Nature. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 200 gp. White pearl (160 gp).

Description: He has the majority of his body covered in plate. He is physically well-built. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Rangrim lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. While he appears to be a normal Dwarf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Spy they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Cook, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father.

Flaws: Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 10 pp. Coral (40 gp).

Description: This woman dresses well, wearing grey shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on her left hand. Her blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. Her gray eyes peer out from beneath her small grey hat.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Gifted from a young age, Gurdis studied abroad. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Courier

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She is portly but not overly obese. She has slicked back chestnut hair. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Courier born in the past three hundred years. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A freak accident while working with her Baker father left her crippled. She was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside her partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she is greedy

Ideals: Professionalism, Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job, Slave. Occupation: Courier

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He wears yellow trousers with white and yellow striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He is physically well-built. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was born into a rich family. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and money/treasure

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'1". He wears bulky brown painted plate armor. His black hair and beard is wavy and long. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. 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 north. He was granted druidic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 4000 sp. Jade (70 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Black opal (1500 gp). Amethyst (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.