Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and wears a white cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. 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. In her 15th year, her parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Hrathy alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She struck the Shepherd job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing her hectic life and new shepherd responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 5000 gp. Peridot (20 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). White pearl (60 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Jade (60 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Azurite (4 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Standing 5'4", this man wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has shaved his head bald. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Gell is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Extrovert, Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive, PTSD. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1100 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (30 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1600 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (120 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.

Description: She is dressed in an above average manner. Her brown hair is heavily combed to the left. Her half smiles and violet eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 400 pp.

Description: A 3'4" eastern man, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His blonde hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His ears are large.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 700 pp. Jet (110 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Rose (80 gp). Red-brown spinel (110 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Sard (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Moss agate (8 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Hematite (8 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Star ruby (400 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). Iolite (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His divine abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Sensitive. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. Moonstone (30 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Silver pearl (110 gp). Fire opal (500 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). Black star sapphire (500 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Rose (30 gp). Azurite (9 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (500 gp). Hematite (9 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Silver pearl (110 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are amber and beady.

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. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Ûkshak was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 4000 gp. Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (120 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp).

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears tattered old clothes. Her small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She saw the violence of war and the aftermath so she converted to religion and dedicated herself to non-violence.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 6000 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1200 gp). Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2200 gp).