Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. Her amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. The war was a terrible time for her, and Willow does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To protect her home; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Sensitive, Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Slave, Guardian. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 800 sp. Cloth of gold vestments (40 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is a great chef.

History: Gifted from a young age, Akta studied abroad. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She is content; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: American accent

Possessions: Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (900 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (110 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp).

Description: She is lean but muscular and prefers to wear green clothing when she does not wear armor. She has styled her bronze crest well, parting it to the right. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. 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: Jezean was born with her mother's beautiful face. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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 has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Expand her business; and a deep hatred of brigands

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 600 gp. Amber (110 gp). Sard (40 gp). Jet (110 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a tan shirt, with a grey mid length shorts with grey tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His ears are large.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A gifted student he started as a Knight, but he got bored and became a Roofer. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 3 years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Disease. Bonds: In love, Job. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 44000 sp.

Description: He wears baggy black pantaloons and a grey scarf. His blue crest has been sun bleached extensively. His ears are large.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, In love, Immigrant. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1200 gp. Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Eldeth is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. She worked as a nervous Ruler and found it very stressful. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and balancing her hectic life and new ruler responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Emotional. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 1500 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This dark-skinned female wears dull white sweaters, loose black pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed spear, just in case. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her small white hat.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Bowyer. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Bellfounder they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Bowyer, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Bonds: Guardian, Job, Nature, Family, Rich. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 200 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears dull brown sweaters, loose grey pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed spear, just in case. His white hair is braided into rings. His ears are large.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He is a Yochlol in disguise. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has dedicated himself to building a better village for his children.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 3000 gp. Red garnet (150 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Rich purple corundum (500 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). White pearl (150 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is dressed in earthy colors with a white and pastel handkerchief worn on his left side. He has dyed his greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A gifted student he started as a Shepherd, but he got bored and became a Fletcher. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he wants revenge against giants

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Red garnet (60 gp).