Description: This woman is very fat, and prefers to wear flannel. Her white hair is smooth and relatively long. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes brigands are coming to abduct people. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. In her 16th year, her parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Gadreel 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 brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 6000 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1000 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (160 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (30 gp). Jeweled gold crown (4000 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (30 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (160 gp).

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She wears a colorful flower in her auburn hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She comes from a rich western family. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Revenge; and to reunite with her old friends

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 4000 gp. Jeweled electrum ring (7000 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (20 gp). Old masterpiece painting (900 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His white hair is lengthy. His eyes are likewise silver. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

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. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Miller for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Miller responsibilities is difficult; and expand his business

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 2000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He wears a colorful flower in his white fur. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: Shadow lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 7000 gp. Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Silver pearl (130 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Rich purple corundum (500 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp). Sard (20 gp). Moss agate (14 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she prefers to wear flannel. Her hair is blonde and curly. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Tanner arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1000 gp. Rock crystal (20 gp). Coral (160 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy red crest. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her morningstar with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has a hunchback. She has done her best to style her red crest to look like a famous performer. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Megren was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dragonborns became a terror of the countryside. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1100 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1100 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She very much looks the part of a Detective. She wears a colorful flower in her blue crest. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Aasathra grew up listening to her father's many stories. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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 became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 2000 gp.