Description: Standing 4'9", this woman wears a tan broad hat and tan clothes. Her red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. 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: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive, Shy. Bonds: Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1600 pp. Aquamarine (1500 gp). Golden pearl (90 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep violet leather and dull blue iron scale mail, marred by chocolates. His brown hair is knotted and matted. His green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Himo is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 6000 gp. A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (90 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (60 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (800 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp).

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She has wavy silver hair. Her violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Birel is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Birel was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Dyer; and she wants to get laid

Ideals: Extrovert, Optimist. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. Citrine (50 gp). White opal (700 gp). Coral (80 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Blue star sapphire (700 gp). Black star sapphire (700 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Fire opal (700 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: 6'7" and muscular, this western man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His hair is short and auburn. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. After a long history of fighting, Ar-Karo and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: Azurite (13 gp). Amethyst (120 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Amber (120 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Deep green spinel (120 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she is renowned for her bright tan dresses and hats. She has styled her auburn hair well, parting it to the right. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Drusilia isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Elven unity. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Drusilia was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Drusilia never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and balancing her hectic life and new brewer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Impeccable, Persistence. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: In love, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 9000 gp. Bloodstone (30 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Chrysoberyl (140 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Fire opal (1500 gp). Blue star sapphire (1500 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Jade (140 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Blue sapphire (1500 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Malachite (13 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1500 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears blue painted combat armor at almost all times. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. The war was a terrible time for him, and Ahvain does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Ahvain was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 800 pp. A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (170 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (3000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (600 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1000 gp).

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. His red crest has been sun bleached extensively. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Locksmith hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and balancing his hectic life and new locksmith responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Slave, Poor, In love. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 1000 gp. Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). 1 Medium magic item.