Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She has done her best to style her white crest to look like a famous performer. She has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Synthrin was raised in a hard working conservative environment. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and to be a barkeep again

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Full Plate.

Description: She has a missing right arm. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She keeps her long blue hair kept up in a rat tail. Her gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Armara has worked very hard to control her curse. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and doesn't want to be a miller and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 360 gp. Golden pearl (40 gp). Red garnet (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He tends to wear a large blue jacket. He carries a battered shortspear and tarnished club as well. He wears his red hair down. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes goblins are coming to abduct people. He feeds upon the attention of others.

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. His first spouse was a Seamstress, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: Red spinel (40 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Silver pearl (40 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. Rael is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Rael was born with his father's beautiful face. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and doesn't want to be a doctor and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 500 gp. Chrysoberyl (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat eastern woman has a bulbous nose and dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady violet eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Through the years after Menny was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Menny's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 2'11" and usually wears his white robe and has his flail always slung over his shoulder. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. After a long history of fighting, Tomi and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 2000 gp. Carved bone or ivory statuette (20 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1400 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears baggy green pantaloons and a brown scarf. She has moderate length purple hair. She has gleaming, smiling black eyes.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Sensitive, Lazy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 90 gp. Amethyst (50 gp). 3 Antitoxin.

Description: This northern woman tends to wear a large brown jacket. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her fur is red and very short. She has blue eyes and a brown hat with a white feather.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her singing with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born in a small mountains village. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family, Nature. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: German accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She prefers to wear blue pants and tee shirts. Her blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. Her green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Military, Enemies. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 2400 gp. Jasper (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). White opal (700 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.