Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Dwarves. Her skin is dark but she possesses many pastel ritualistic tattoos. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her black hair is well kept. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. Nalaed is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears black trousers with green and tan striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His red hair is thinning but still full. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Marshal arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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 Marshal. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 30 gp. Deep green spinel (80 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a black shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and black pants. Her auburn hair is matted, messy, and big. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Painter

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Tharivol liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 140 gp. Amethyst (100 gp).

Description: This malnourished woman is dressed in earthy colors with a black and tan handkerchief worn on her right side. Her crest is cut close to her head. Her red eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed black hat.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

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. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 west. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family, In love. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 70 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (50 gp).

Description: He wears dull brown sweaters, loose black pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed crossbow, just in case. His white hair is cut short. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Don will drive conversation. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 150 pp. 1 Holy water.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Courier. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

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

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job, Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'5" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears bulky black painted plate armor. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. In his 14th 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. He has achieved small success as a Junk Dealer.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 3200 sp.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. With bright white hair and a scraggly beard. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by gnolls. Gimble was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: He wants revenge against gnolls.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist, Shy. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1200 sp.