Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a simple brown robe with yellow stripes complete with hood. Her hair is red and curly. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Matilda is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Matilda was born on a far northern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Barber. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Matilda was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 8000 gp. Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Blue quartz (6 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. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a pastel coat. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on his right hand. His brown fur has been sun bleached extensively. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the east. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is greedy; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Religious, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1000 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man wears a grey armored body suit, with a simple black line shooting up and back down. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on his left hand. He has brown hair. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He struck the Gardener job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: To be a Actor again.

Bonds: Rich, Job, Slave, Mentor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 13000 gp. Eye agate (6 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Coral (130 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Blue star sapphire (1500 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Moss agate (6 gp).

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. Her golden hair is matted, messy, and big. Her eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. In her 17th year, her parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Helen alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is dressed in a clean black cloak covering his clean studded leather, and is pretty ugly. His blue hair is unkempt and raggedy. His silver eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He got into the Mayor business at a young age. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Mayor responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 10000 gp. Moonstone (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp).

Description: He wears a blue small hat and blue clothes, and carries longbows. His brown hair, when down, is lengthy. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He hates Gnomes with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He was born in the east. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Locksmith for hire.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: In love, Immigrant, Job, Debt. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 10000 gp. Aquamarine (1600 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Tourmaline (50 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp). Blue sapphire (800 gp). Deep green spinel (50 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). Golden pearl (50 gp). Sard (40 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This slender woman stands about 2'8". She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. Vani enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Vani grew up listening to her father's many stories. She found a children's book about a Halfling Druid who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and expand her business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 6000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (90 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2400 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1700 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2400 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.