Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 5'2" and likes to wear ponchos typically of a light blue in addition to tight pants. Her hair is silver, silky, and of moderate length. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Shava hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. Because her father participated in the massacre of their homeland, gnolls burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her mother from journeying north to reunite her family. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Enemies, Job, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 2000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (170 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2400 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. He dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a red coat with brown slacks. He has a hunchback. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Tod has worked very hard to control his curse. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Barkeep.

Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 400 pp. Hematite (11 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Peridot (80 gp). Amber (100 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Silver pearl (100 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Sard (80 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Amber (100 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 eastern woman is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her clothes are grease stained in places. With wild blonde hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing singing.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her father. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the east were limited. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 10000 gp. Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Black star sapphire (1300 gp). Citrine (60 gp). White opal (1300 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). Tourmaline (150 gp). Peridot (60 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Standing 5'7", this man prefers to wear white clothing when he does not wear armor. His hair is silver, silky, and of moderate length. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Mercenary they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Shoemaker, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and doesn't want to be a shoemaker and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Joker, Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 6000 gp. Black pearl (1500 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Canary diamond (4000 gp). Pink diamond (4000 gp). Rich purple corundum (400 gp). Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Rich purple corundum (400 gp). Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, marred by teas. He wears his white hair up. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 20. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Zook was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Slave Trader hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insane, Lazy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 12000 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (800 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Black opal (800 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Azurite (7 gp). Amethyst (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). Amethyst (70 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Hematite (7 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Black star sapphire (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length auburn hair. Her eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. While she appears to be a normal Dwarf, 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Insane. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 7000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (50 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1100 gp).

Description: This fat southern woman has a bulbous nose and is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She has a long chestnut ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She is a Marshal first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Marshal for the past few years.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and she's in love

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Has a crush. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 4000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2100 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (80 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (800 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.