Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She sports red long hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. The war was a terrible time for her, and Xanaphia does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She got into the Mason business at a young age. A gifted student she started as a Farmer, but she got bored and became a Mason. 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: She feels kind of lost in life.

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Job, Military. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 500 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 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 (10 gp).

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her longsword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. Her hair is black and curly. Her skin is flawless and her violet eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. 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, Falkrunn is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Military. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 600 pp. Cloth of gold vestments (40 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (5000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Old masterpiece painting (900 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (40 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1100 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (900 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (40 gp). Silver ewer (90 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (5000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (40 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp).

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears many layers of old clothing at all times, and is pretty ugly. Her white hair is knotted and matted. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with painting. She constantly tries to fill her life with painting. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. 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. After a long history of fighting, Unvera and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 3000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (10 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears long strands of aquamarine and short pastel dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His fur is cut close to his head. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted, Athletic. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 600 pp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (40 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (50 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp).

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Ur-Lisak lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Ur-Lisak liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and doesn't want to be a masseuse and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Family, Nature, Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1300 pp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (500 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (50 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (500 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (50 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (50 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (50 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (500 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1900 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (30 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 (30 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'3". He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His hair is chestnut and very short. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he is greedy

Flaws: Disease, Addict, Secretive, Impulsive. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 400 pp. Aquamarine (1500 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). White pearl (130 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp).

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a white coat over a grey low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon her head. She sports white long hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Lezre fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 600 pp. Alexandrite (1200 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). White opal (400 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Silver pearl (70 gp). Jade (70 gp). White opal (400 gp). Black star sapphire (400 gp). Blue diamond (4000 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (400 gp). Azurite (7 gp). Jade (70 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Fire opal (400 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Azurite (7 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.