Description: 6'0" and muscular, this eastern woman wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She sports golden long hair. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was born into a rich family. Ermina 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. After a long history of fighting, Ermina and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 30 pp. Moss agate (4 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp).

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He is dressed in a clean white cloak covering his clean studded leather. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. He found a children's book about a Halfling Ranger who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Shax was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Shax has worked very hard to control her curse. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her blue hair is heavily combed to the right. Her silver eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Kallista was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: Expand her business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: She tends to wear a grey poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her golden hair is wavy and long. 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 intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: She was born in the north. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 40 pp. 3 Smokesticks.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'1". He typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor. He wears his bronze crest up. He has red eyes.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Kriv was born the youngest of three triplets. One day when Kriv was young, his mother was sewing while trying to overcome the flu, when suddenly his mother dropped to the ground dead. His mother had died from a severe disease that was unknown to the village doctor. Kriv was heart-stricken from the event, and his father started working long hours to provde for them. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic, PTSD, Depressed. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1100 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her club, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. She wears her brown hair up. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. After a long history of fighting, Finellen and her spouse have recently divorced.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 320 gp.

Description: He is typically in his Locksmith uniform, and he perpetually has his whip ready. His silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Locksmith. He's also a talented Sage, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 5000 gp. Onyx (40 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1600 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Golden pearl (40 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He dresses well, wearing blue shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He keeps his long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his green eyes.

Personality: He is mildly Gnome supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He is obsessed with his god.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He bought a longsword and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Half-Orc compassion; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Sard (40 gp). White pearl (80 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.