Description: She likes to wear grey tank tops with brown skirt. She is portly but not overly obese. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

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. In her 19th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 7000 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2300 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (140 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (40 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (140 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (140 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (140 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1700 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1700 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Gold and ruby ring (6000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a brown costume with the symbols of her god on her torso. She keeps her blonde hair in a flapper bob. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has achieved small success as a Barber.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Rich, Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 6000 gp.

Description: She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull green iron scale mail. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her chestnut hair is long and unkept. Her eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her singing with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 1000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (3000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1700 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (60 gp). Jeweled gold crown (6000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears long strands of amber and short yellow dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Fortune-teller. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His childhood dream was to be a Butcher, but he was a colossal failure. He became a Fortune-teller soon after.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and money/treasure

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. White opal (1200 gp). Iolite (60 gp). Moss agate (8 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1200 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears violet painted combat armor at almost all times. His hair is black and very short. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. At some point he was captured by gnolls and was tortured. After several years of this he finally managed to escape. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by gnolls. Charles was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: Many gnolls want him driven away; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 700 pp. Old masterpiece painting (2400 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2400 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, pastel, dusty cloak. He wears his white fur up. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is a great chef.

History: He was raised in a forest tribe. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 9000 gp. Cloth of gold vestments (30 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (30 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Halfling, and stands approximately 2'10". She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs, and her gloved hand is found clutching a scythe. Her brown hair is smooth and relatively long. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered music. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 1300 pp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (90 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (100 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1800 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (90 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1800 gp).