Description: This northern woman wears suspenders and black workpants. Her shirt is brown, and she wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents enrolled her in a Adept school at a young age so that she could practice her druidic talents. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Guardian, Family. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1100 gp. Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His hair is long and white with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small grey clips. His beard is chestnut, braided, and well cared for. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He hates goblins. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. 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: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and sabotage a competitor

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich, Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his longbow with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

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. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. After a long history of fighting, Tim and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She keeps her auburn hair in a flapper bob. Her eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She very much looks the part of a Fortune-teller. Her golden hair is matted, messy, and big. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes drow are coming to abduct people. She is an amazing painter.

History: Born in the east to a Fortune-teller, Helgret learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Fortune-teller.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and she desires to right it; and revenge

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has styled his red crest well, parting it to the right. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Fax was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Spice Merchant for hire.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and balancing his hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Slave, Has a crush, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 40000 sp.

Description: He wears baggy black pantaloons and a blue scarf. His blue hair is heavily combed to the right. His eyes are red and beady.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. When Balam reached his early adolescence his Tiefling 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 guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He is content; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Secretive, Mundane. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 20000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. His crest is copper and very short. This red eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with his Fisher mother left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away.

Ideals: Disciplined, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1100 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (80 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His hair is cut close to his head. He has a tattooed face.

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. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. When Grumbar reached his early adolescence his Half-Orc father 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 spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Adventurer, Religious, Military. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 50 gp. 3 Tanglefoot bags.