Description: This late middle aged woman is dressed in earthy colors with a grey and white handkerchief worn on her left side and is in decent physical shape. She has slicked back golden hair. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was born into a rich family. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1900 pp. Pink pearl (40 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. His silver hair is long and unkept. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has taken up work as a Bookbinder and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Bookbinder responsibilities is difficult; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 2000 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (50 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His red hair is braided into rings. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 400 pp. Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). Jasper (60 gp). Jasper (60 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Black opal (700 gp). Black star sapphire (700 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Jasper (60 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Amber (80 gp). Emerald (700 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Golden pearl (80 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). Star ruby (700 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp).

Description: This southern woman is abnormally tall. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her ears are large.

Personality: Avice is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She was born in the south. While she appears to be a normal Human, 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 left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Servant

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 11000 gp. Chrysoprase (70 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Chrysoberyl (110 gp). Emerald (800 gp). Sard (70 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Jet (110 gp). Rich purple corundum (800 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Red spinel (110 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Moonstone (70 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is wearing a long, violet cloak. She has a very tight haircut. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Claira abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Forgetful, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1000 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (50 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (40 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (50 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (40 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (50 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (50 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears brown trousers with grey and yellow striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She has dyed her greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. 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, Gillyd is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born into a rich family. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Half-Elven companion (her 'brother'). She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 3000 gp. Banded agate (12 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Silver pearl (80 gp). Malachite (12 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: 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 has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. This blue eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Drusilia was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Through the years after Drusilia was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Drusilia's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. 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: Money/treasure; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 7000 gp. Alexandrite (400 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Coral (40 gp). Black star sapphire (1200 gp). Rich purple corundum (1200 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Fire opal (1200 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Hematite (5 gp). 1 Medium magic item.