Description: She usually wears her grey robe and has her halberd always slung over her shoulder. She is physically well-built. She wears her auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Griselda's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Griselda grew up listening to her mother's many stories. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Griselda never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, In love. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 50 gp. Amber (90 gp).

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her hair is short and brown. This violet eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

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: Elysande was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She struck the Courier job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 10 pp. Zircon (70 gp). Jet (40 gp). Citrine (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a worn and beaten armor. His chestnut hair is cut short. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing singing.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Eberdeb grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He found a children's book about a Gnome Monk 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. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 700 sp. Jade (90 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She tends to wear a large grey jacket. Her hair is silver and curly. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Sailor arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 east. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: 2'11" and muscular, this western man wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His silver hair is thinning but still full. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Fulbar fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Artistic, Logical. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 29000 sp. Amethyst (50 gp). Red garnet (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (50 gp).

Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She is portly but not overly obese. Her chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her black eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. 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: Shava lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Family, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 4000 sp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2900 gp). Old masterpiece painting (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a blue shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and white pants. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His hair is auburn and very short. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He takes great joy in being the best Hunter in town.

History: The child of a Farmer, who enjoyed hunting, Gennal was taken on many hunting expeditions. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Disciplined, Philantrophist. Bonds: Job, Nature, Family. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. She is an epitome of beauty. Her long chestnut hair reaches down to her waist. She is baby faced.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. A gifted student she started as a Seamstress, but she got bored and became a Performer. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Performer for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1200 gp. Alexandrite (1000 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her white hair is braided into rings. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Herbalist. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Herbalist business.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her father. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Family, Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1000 gp. A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (70 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (150 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1600 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.