Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. 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 hair is short and auburn. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his music with anyone who is interested.

History: Nordak was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Roofer for the past few years.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family, Job. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 9000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (100 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1400 gp). Silver ewer (90 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (100 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp).

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Dwarves. Her skin is light but she possesses many grey ritualistic tattoos. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her hair is golden, silky, and of moderate length. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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. Bolhild enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Guard

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 5000 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (150 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (100 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (150 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1300 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2300 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2300 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Olunt wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Druid, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. Her blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. Her eyes are likewise brown. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Jelenneth speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Jelenneth was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. A gifted student she started as a Laborer, but she got bored and became a Beggar. She tends to her Beggar job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is her passion; and expand her business

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 6000 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (700 gp). Old masterpiece painting (900 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (70 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (700 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (50 gp).

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress), and carries hand crossbows. He has moderate length golden hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 61. 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 a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Half-Orcs.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Dragonborn compassion.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 8000 gp. Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Blue star sapphire (700 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Star ruby (700 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears skinny pants and wears a tan and white robe with the hood down. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her father. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 8000 gp. Solid gold idol (1100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (60 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (40 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty blue coat over it. Her hair is brown and very short. Her gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born to a Merchant, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Family, Poor. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 5000 gp. Moss agate (16 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Deep green spinel (110 gp). Amethyst (110 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Deep green spinel (110 gp). Red spinel (110 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Red spinel (110 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Star ruby (600 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). 1 Medium magic item.