Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her red hair is cut short. Her half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

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 is a Slaad in disguise. 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 has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature mace.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Opinionated. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 500 pp. Smoky quartz (40 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). Red-brown spinel (90 gp). Black opal (1100 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She has a missing right arm. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She has shaved her head bald. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Shepherd. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1200 pp. A delicate brass dragon egg (20 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears an entirely brown suit with green socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He sports a flattop hair cut. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Butcher. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. The war was a terrible time for him, and Nalral does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

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. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Butcher. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south.

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 16000 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (60 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (60 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (80 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (60 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Gold and ruby ring (3000 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (400 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (60 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (80 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (400 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (60 gp). Silver ewer (80 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (60 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (60 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears white robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a warhammer, but if one is not available she will default to her longsword. Her moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Sarai was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. During her travels, Sarai and her party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Sarai discovered the rest of her party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Sarai fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing her own horrible transformation.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 10000 gp. Chrysoprase (50 gp). Jacinth (8000 gp). Brown-green garnet (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Azurite (6 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Fire opal (800 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Deep green spinel (40 gp). Coral (40 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Peridot (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His black hair, when down, is lengthy. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac, Hedonist. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 2000 gp. Black star sapphire (1100 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Black star sapphire (1100 gp). Tourmaline (60 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Jet (60 gp). Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Coral (60 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Orc, and stands approximately 4'10". She wears silk and lounges about seductively, and her gloved hand is found clutching a monstrous two handed axe. Her silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Hrathy was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Barkeep.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 300 pp. Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Coral (70 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Brown diamond (8000 gp). Jade (70 gp). Hematite (15 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This light-skinned female is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her white hair is well kept. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: Yurgunn hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She was born at the edge of vast mountains. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Painter hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing her hectic life and new painter responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Nature, Poor, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 4000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1200 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item.