Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a white Stetson hat and white clothes, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her head has been shaved. Her eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She wants revenge against gnolls; and someone believes her a fraud

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: In love, Adventurer, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light tan in addition to tight pants. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is an amazing painter.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the east. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He's in love; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He bought a shortbow and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Immigrant, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

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

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She has dyed her greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. 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, Faral is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, PTSD. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Red garnet (40 gp). Obsidian (9 gp).

Description: This light-skinned male wears tan robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a glaive, but if one is not available he will default to his scythe. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He has shaved his head bald. His hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is a Mayor first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He wears baggy black pantaloons and a grey scarf. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His crest is cut close to his head. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature quarterstaff.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her golden hair is thinning but still full. Her half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Nissa hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to gnolls.

Motivation: She wants revenge against gnolls; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 330 gp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. His silver eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Amnon is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. 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: Amnon lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His first spouse was a Architect, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. Now he works as a dancing tutor during his time off.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Logical, Artistic. Flaws: Depressed, Greedy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Halflings. Her skin is dark but she possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. She prefers to wear flannel. She has a long brown ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Rich, In love. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 1000 sp.