Description: This late middle aged woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with pastel lining and desert motifs and is in decent physical shape. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She hates brigands. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Ethereal was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Through the years after Ethereal was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Ethereal's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Ethereal and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and regain custody of her daughter

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 6000 gp. Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Hematite (12 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She has brown hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

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 does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Nature, Rich, Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 500 pp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'2". He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His blue crest is lengthy. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Fax enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Mayor. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 4000 gp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Half-Orcs. His skin is light but he possesses many blue ritualistic tattoos. He wears a worn and beaten armor. He has dyed his greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He is a Slaad in disguise. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Baker. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Fearful, Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 8000 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (700 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (4000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1500 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (60 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1500 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (100 gp).

Description: 2'10" and muscular, this eastern woman sports white clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her hair is cut close to her head. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Andry is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. After coming to the age of reason, Andry took it upon herself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was granted divine powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east.

Ideals: Athletic, Justice, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 1100 pp. Blue quartz (16 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). White opal (700 gp). Fire opal (700 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Rose (70 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears tattered old clothes. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her ears are large.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Armorer who has hired her part-time. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was born at the edge of vast forest. Nurkara was born on a far northern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Armorer. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Mayor. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and balancing her hectic life and new armorer responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Job, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 5000 gp. Star ruby (1500 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). White pearl (150 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Fire opal (1500 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Jet (150 gp). White pearl (150 gp). Jade (150 gp). Red garnet (150 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a grey vest and prefers blue and black shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around her ears. Her eyes are blue.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the north were limited. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 400 pp. Black opal (1100 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Rich purple corundum (1100 gp). Rose (20 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Amber (40 gp). Obsidian (16 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.