Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears brown trousers with yellow and white striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She has styled her black hair well, parting it to the right. Her half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She hates giants. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Dwarves.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Helja grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 8000 gp. Obsidian (9 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Red garnet (140 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Rose (50 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Red garnet (140 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: An older woman who is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze, she is not a threatening figure. Her hair is silver and curly. Her brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. A freak accident while working with her Farmer mother left her crippled. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 4000 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Fire opal (700 gp). Rose (70 gp). Malachite (10 gp). Jet (110 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). Jasper (70 gp). White opal (700 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Black star sapphire (700 gp). Azurite (10 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing pastel cape and mantle trimmed with soft red waves gently in the breeze and is in decent physical shape. He has moderate length gray fur. His ears are large.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 8000 gp. Moonstone (50 gp). Brown-green garnet (160 gp). Coral (160 gp).

Description: He is in excellent shape and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull grey iron scale mail. He has brown fur. His skin is flawless and his amber eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 9000 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (60 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (60 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (60 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1700 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1700 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1700 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (60 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (50 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (4000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1400 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a fancy white dress. With wild black hair. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are violet.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She disdains her fellow southerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. 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. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To settle down with her crush; and she would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Military, Has a crush. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 6000 gp. Sard (50 gp). Rich purple corundum (500 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Coral (50 gp). Jet (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (500 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Red garnet (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Rich purple corundum (500 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Zircon (50 gp). White pearl (50 gp).

Description: He wears bulky white painted plate armor. He is portly but not overly obese. He has wavy silver hair. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. 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, Kûga is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 1200 pp. Black pearl (700 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Fisher business.

History: Born to a Engraver, his mother struggled to pay the bills. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered west to less war torn lands. He was granted druidic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Blue quartz (12 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). White opal (1300 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Black opal (1300 gp). 1 Medium magic item.