Description: This late middle aged woman tends to wear a large grey jacket and is in decent physical shape. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are hazel.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 2000 gp. Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Amethyst (100 gp). Rose (20 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). Blue sapphire (500 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Pink pearl (100 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Rose (20 gp).

Description: This woman wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. With wild auburn hair. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. In her 16th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Emma never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: To protect her home; and tiefling compassion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, In love. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 600 pp. Alexandrite (300 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Amethyst (130 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Jade (130 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp).

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. She prefers to wear flannel. She has a hunchback. Her auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her brown eyes peer out from beneath her top yellow hat.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she is content

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 300 pp. A roughly beaten golden orb (160 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (10 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (160 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a robe, a symbol of his god around his neck, and a nunchaku on his belt. His black hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Mayor but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Thorin fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 8000 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Erias will drive conversation. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Actor for hire.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 7000 gp. Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Moss agate (9 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Red spinel (90 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp).

Description: He has a missing left leg. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His hair is chestnut and curly. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. Through the years after Habor was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Habor's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: Moss agate (11 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Golden pearl (80 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. Her brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Claira was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Druid, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Druid in service of a powerful lord somewhere. She worked as a nervous Dyer and found it very stressful. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Dyer responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. Red garnet (130 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Banded agate (11 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). Obsidian (11 gp). Golden pearl (130 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). 1 Medium magic item.