Description: This light-skinned female wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her black hair is wavy and long. Her hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Nora enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She found a children's book about a Dwarf Druid who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and obtaining odd cultural dragonborn artifacts is her passion

Flaws: Addict, Hedonist, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 7000 gp. Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears long strands of amber and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He wears his golden hair up. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Spice Merchant. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and expand his business

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 6000 gp. Solid gold idol (500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1400 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He dresses well, wearing black shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'8" when asserting himself. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Courier.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Courier responsibilities is difficult.

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Nature. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 4000 gp. Red garnet (120 gp). Deep green spinel (120 gp). Moss agate (14 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (500 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. He has dyed his greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. His silver eyes peer out from beneath his top black hat.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Professionalism, Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 2000 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (70 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (70 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (600 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2300 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2300 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (4000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (70 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp).

Description: A 4'11" eastern woman, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She keeps her chestnut hair in a pixie cut. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Myev speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Dwarven companion (her 'brother'). She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 600 pp. Solid gold idol (800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2700 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (7000 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (10000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1600 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (70 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, she is wearing a long, tan cloak. Sporting a auburn mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. As a young child she wandered into the woods despite her mother's warnings against it. Afterwards she claimed she had encountered goblins who tried to eat her hand. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and she desires to right it; and she feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Insomniac, Depressed, Forgetful, Disease. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 4000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (20 gp).

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and has a large white mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his brown robe. His skin is also unnaturally pale. Sporting a black mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Herbalist business.

History: Halander lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Stylist they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Herbalist, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Professionalism, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Eye agate (4 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Fire opal (1100 gp).