Description: This woman has a large grey mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her white robe, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Barbena fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Military, Slave. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 6000 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (170 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He tends to wear a grey poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has a very tight haircut. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Spice Merchant born in the past three hundred years. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Bather again.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 300 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (110 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 500 pp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1500 gp). Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (90 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears a tan costume with the symbols of her god on her torso. She has shaved her head bald. She has a dull look in her brown eyes.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Tervaround embodies much of what other species detest in the Gnomes. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Antagonistic, Lazy. Bonds: In love, Military. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: Iolite (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Rose (70 gp). Sard (70 gp). Tourmaline (120 gp). White pearl (120 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Tourmaline (120 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Chrysoberyl (120 gp). White pearl (120 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp).

Description: She is lean but muscular and dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a white coat with black slacks. Her silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. Her violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is mildly Dwarf supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her parents enrolled her in a Druid school at a young age so that she could practice her arcane talents. 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 south; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Military, Rich. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 8000 gp. Violet garnet (400 gp). Rich purple corundum (800 gp). Emerald (800 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Jasper (60 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). Brown-green garnet (160 gp). Fire opal (800 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp). Hematite (8 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (800 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Amethyst (160 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Golden pearl (160 gp).

Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her red hair is heavily combed to the left. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. In her 20th 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 was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 8000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (50 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (500 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He prefers to wear flannel. His auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. 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: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Persistence, Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 5000 gp. Blue quartz (4 gp). Iolite (70 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Jade (120 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp).