Description: He stands about 5'1" and wears a simple grey robe with green stripes complete with hood. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He has brown hair. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: 6'6" and muscular, this southern woman wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a whip, but if one is not available she will default to her quarterstaff. Her gold crest is lengthy. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gold.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Gesrethe was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She's also a talented Priest, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Impeccable. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 110 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 3'6" northern man, he has the majority of his body covered in plate. His hair is chestnut and curly. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He worked as a nervous Priest and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Map Maker again; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Shy, Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 80 pp.

Description: She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length black hair. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Military, Family. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 600 gp. Iolite (40 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat eastern woman has a bulbous nose and is dressed in a clean grey cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. This brown eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes giants are coming to abduct people. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Griselda lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. At a young age her mother died while driving off some giants. Her father being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train her in mace use. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Mortician

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

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her golden hair is cut short. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Poor, Religious. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her black fur is greasy and uncared for. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Windy is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Windy 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. While she appears to be a normal Tabaxi, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Extrovert, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 400 gp. Star rose quartz (30 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, violet cloak. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Knight business.

History: He got into the Knight business at a young age. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Knight. He struck the Knight job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Pacifist, Persistence. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her silver hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. Her white eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She hates orcs. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Her parents were killed by orcs in a raid when she was still a young child. The orcs captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion.

Flaws: Disease, Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 400 gp.