Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her eyes are hazel.

Personality: She is a Tailor first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Tordrid hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. She worked as a nervous Tailor and found it very stressful. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She wants revenge against gnolls; and to reunite with her absent father

Bonds: Job, Rich, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Black opal (900 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Tourmaline (120 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Sard (50 gp). Jet (120 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. 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: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the forest to a summer home near a large cave. He would wander through that large cave and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the forest due to the painful memories there. Erevan took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up quarterstaff and armor he uses now. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed, Insomniac. Bonds: Slave, Nature. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 8000 gp. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'5". He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

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 invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 6000 gp. Amber (90 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Moss agate (8 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Eye agate (8 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: 6'9" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with Stetson hat. His white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are blue.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Barfa hails from a village terrorized by brigands. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by brigands. Barfa was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Debt. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 23000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (100 gp). Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (30 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (30 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Silver ewer (30 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Gold and ruby ring (11000 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a grey coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a Stetson hat upon his head, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 4'0" when asserting himself. His hair is long and brown with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small grey clips. His beard is chestnut, braided, and well cared for. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson grey hat.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. The war was a terrible time for him, and Tordek does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Born in the north to a Bricklayer, Tordek learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Dwarven conditions. He struck the Bricklayer job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Depressed, Racist. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 700 pp. Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Tourmaline (90 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Star ruby (700 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). Iolite (70 gp). Coral (90 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Black pearl (900 gp).

Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and wears a tight fitting red shirt and pants. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her hair is cut close to her head. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Vani grew up listening to her mother's many stories. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 700 pp. Red garnet (70 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). Tourmaline (70 gp). Sard (70 gp). Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). White opal (700 gp). Tourmaline (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. He is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has a hunchback. His hair is long and auburn with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small blue clips. His beard is chestnut, braided, and well cared for. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Arannis is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Arannis fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Joker, Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 5000 gp. Sard (70 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (900 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Amber (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp).