Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her longbow with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her black hair is greasy and uncared for. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: She was born into a rich family. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the west were limited. After a long history of fighting, Valida and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she is greedy

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 4000 gp. Chalcedony (60 gp). Malachite (9 gp). Azurite (9 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her blonde hair is cut short. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: Helgret hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her writing with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Helgret has worked very hard to control her curse. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Blue sapphire (1300 gp). Eye agate (10 gp). Jet (160 gp). Eye agate (10 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Eye agate (10 gp).

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a grey coat, marred by beers. She has styled her black hair well, parting it to the left. Her eyes are green.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. Because her father participated in the massacre of their homeland, brigands burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the south, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her mother from journeying south to reunite her family. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and she wants revenge against brigands

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 12000 gp. Blue quartz (13 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Sard (80 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). White opal (1000 gp). Hematite (13 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Fire opal (1000 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Chrysoberyl (150 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Black opal (1000 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Rich purple corundum (1000 gp). Peridot (80 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). Pink pearl (150 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Gifted from a young age, Stannor studied abroad. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 1000 gp. Solid gold idol (700 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (30 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2500 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2500 gp).

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has no fur. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Gale is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Gale lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He worked as a nervous Dilettante and found it very stressful. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Dilettante.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Extrovert, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 2000 gp. Emerald (600 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Red garnet (130 gp). Sard (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Malachite (13 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Blue-white diamond (8000 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 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: She is typically in her Detective uniform. She carries a battered quarterstaff and tarnished spear as well. She is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around her ears. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Ahlyssa grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Detective. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Detective for hire.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 5000 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1500 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1000 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (40 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Gold and ruby ring (7000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1000 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (40 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1500 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1500 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears grey trousers with brown and blue striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her violet eyes.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. The war was a terrible time for her, and Sannl does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 700 pp. Star rose quartz (50 gp). Black star sapphire (1000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.