Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a blue vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her blue boots flare out at the collars. She has styled her red hair well, parting it to the left. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She uses divination through singing.

History: Oppah was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Commoner, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Commoner in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. She came across an abandoned tomb where she found a relic that called out to her. After picking it up she was cursed by vampirism.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 8000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears bulky yellow painted plate armor. He has dyed his greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. His violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Immeral's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Immeral was born the youngest of three triplets. At some point he was captured by gnolls and was tortured. After several years of this he finally managed to escape. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Bookbinder responsibilities is difficult; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Slave, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: Bloodstone (80 gp). Amber (160 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a tan costume with the symbols of strength on her torso. She carries a battered spear and tarnished shortbow as well. Her white hair is wavy and long. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. A true patriot, Oppah would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Her arcane abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument. 1 Superior lock. 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing red cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. Her red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 south. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This tall, slender woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her gray eyes.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Avice grew up listening to her father's many stories. 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 Mayor. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: Coral (150 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a pastel shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and brown pants. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Tree was born the youngest of three triplets. His first spouse was a Brewer, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His silver hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He got into the Courier business at a young age. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Courier for the past few years.

Motivation: Many brigands want him driven away; and revenge

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 700 sp. Silver pearl (100 gp).

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a tattered pair of loose black pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her copper crest is knotted and matted. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady gold eyes.

Personality: She is mildly Dragonborn supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Tiefling people.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'8" and likes to wear violet tank tops with white pants. He has a very tight haircut. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His parents were killed by drow in a raid when he was still a young child. The drow captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by drow. Alex was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the drow.

Motivation: Many drow want him driven away.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 400 pp. Eye agate (12 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Emerald (400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Red-brown spinel (110 gp). Golden pearl (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item.