Description: 5'1" and muscular, this western woman tends to wear a large brown jacket. Her red hair is thinning but still full. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: Giselle lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 7000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her long brown hair reaches down to her waist. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with writing. She constantly tries to fill her life with writing. She is a great chef.

History: Gynk was born the youngest of three triplets. While she appears to be a normal Half-Orc, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Citrine (40 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Brown-green garnet (120 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Jade (120 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Iolite (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty red coat over it. She is bald on top and has large golden tufts of hair around her ears. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Brewer profession.

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. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To be a Brewer again.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Guardian, Job. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 300 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1600 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (50 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1600 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (150 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1600 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (150 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (150 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (50 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. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His head has been shaved. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

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. 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: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Layabout and was forced into it by his family; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Slave. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 500 pp. Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Hematite (12 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Deep green spinel (110 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a worn and beaten armor. Her auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Dwarven conditions. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south.

Ideals: Disciplined, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Server

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 1000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1800 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp).

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He wears his white fur up. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 1000 pp. Smoky quartz (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp). Black star sapphire (600 gp). Rose (30 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Black opal (600 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Coral (160 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: Rolen is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Born to a Sailor, his mother struggled to pay the bills. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 10 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Rolen never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Religious, Poor, In love. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 300 pp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (50 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (10 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 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. 1 Minor magic item.