Description: She is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her purple hair is singed and shortened. She has silver eyes.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. Markosian is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Markosian was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his glaive with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He keeps his brown fur in a pixie cut. His fierce copper eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Mayor profession.

History: Shifting was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1600 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and wears tattered old clothes. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Hadwisa was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. After months of barely getting by, Hadwisa managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, she made her way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Military, Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 270 pp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (900 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a tattered pair of loose white pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her hair is short and white. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. 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: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her 14th year, her parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Kabbarg alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She wants revenge against goblins; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 4000 sp. Citrine (20 gp). Blue quartz (9 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp).

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. His silver hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a rose scrunchie. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. 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 then took over the family business and is one of the better Interpreter for hire.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and balancing his hectic life and new interpreter responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1900 gp. Obsidian (7 gp). Iolite (70 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Black star sapphire (700 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 6'7" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a green shirt, with a grey mid length skirt with grey tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. She has wavy bronze crest. Her eyes are likewise gold. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Savaran liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Nature. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1400 gp. A silver and pearl hairclip (80 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (110 gp).

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her hammer with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her red hair has been sun bleached extensively. This green eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Werydd was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Some 7 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Werydd never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is her passion; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: Citrine (40 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears skinny pants and wears a black and green robe with the hood down, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He keeps his long blue crest kept up in a rat tail. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Mugrunden will drive conversation. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: In love, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: American accent

Possessions: Chrysoprase (30 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Blue-white diamond (4000 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Rose (30 gp).

Description: He wears a brown shirt, with a green mid length shorts with green tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. 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: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. When Harbek reached his early adolescence his Dwarf 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Military. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 10000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.