Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Dyer. His white hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: Ortegar lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He worked as a nervous Dyer and found it very stressful. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To unite with his sister.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 11000 gp. Coral (130 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Sard (30 gp). Rich purple corundum (1500 gp). Red garnet (130 gp). Deep green spinel (130 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Malachite (6 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears professional attire. She wears her black hair up. Her white eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

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. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 3000 gp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Jasper (60 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp). Amber (70 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Jacinth (4000 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a grey shirt with thin blue vertical stripes and black pants, and is pretty ugly. She has wavy chestnut hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when orcs swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1900 pp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (50 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1600 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (50 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1200 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (3000 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (50 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (900 gp). A small bag of saffron. (50 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (50 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 (50 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (11000 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She has auburn hair. Her fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Butcher arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature quarterstaff.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 10000 gp. Lapis lazuli (8 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Black opal (1500 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Chrysoberyl (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She keeps her auburn hair in a flapper bob. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. A true patriot, Sarah would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Sarah was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Sarah fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 200 pp. Violet garnet (1500 gp). Hematite (15 gp). White opal (800 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Blue star sapphire (800 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Blue diamond (8000 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Rose (20 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Amber (70 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). Azurite (15 gp). White pearl (70 gp).

Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She carries with her a set of shortbows, each one with a ruby on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her red hair is lengthy. Her ears are large.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (400 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (400 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. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a fancy pastel dress. Her brown fur is thinning but still full. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Cynical, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 5000 gp. Red-brown spinel (130 gp). Zircon (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.