Description: This tall, slender woman wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She keeps her long scarlet crest kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are a pleasant red.

Personality: Hethress is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She married young, but lost her spouse to gnolls. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She wants revenge against gnolls; and money/treasure

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 400 pp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1400 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). A small bag of saffron. (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp).

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears a grey tunic with green highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around his shoes. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His silver hair is heavily combed to the left. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Because his father participated in the massacre of their homeland, gnolls burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his mother from journeying north to reunite his family. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 800 pp. A roughly beaten golden orb (180 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1800 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (180 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). Gold and ruby ring (6000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (2000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1800 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (40 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (180 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1800 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (180 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (40 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she usually wears her tan robe and has her greatsword always slung over her shoulder. Her hair is brown and curly. She has brown eyes.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Through the years after Ridaro was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Ridaro's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Jeweler. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and she has a crush on the local jeweler

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 7000 gp. A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (80 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (80 gp).

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her hair is chestnut and curly. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: Lidda was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 9000 gp. Alexandrite (400 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Tourmaline (140 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Chrysoberyl (140 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Jet (140 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor, and she perpetually has her sickle ready. Her hair is silver and curly. Her green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She hates drow. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she wants revenge against drow

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Enemies, Has a crush, Military. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 7000 gp. Banded agate (9 gp). Tourmaline (50 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). Deep green spinel (50 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Tourmaline (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Pink pearl (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 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 well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She has wavy blonde hair. Her amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Barbena was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her childhood dream was to be a Performer, but she was a colossal failure. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and she desires to right it; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 9000 gp. Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Star ruby (1100 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Golden pearl (130 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Red spinel (130 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Amethyst (130 gp). Brown diamond (3000 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Blue sapphire (1100 gp). Red spinel (130 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Obsidian (11 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape, and she perpetually has her axe ready. Her blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Engong was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Shy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 6000 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (40 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (500 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (500 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. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.