Description: She is a mite stocky and wears baggy grey pantaloons and a brown scarf. Her moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. 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 son.

History: Born in the east to a Crown-heir, Griselda learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Crown-heir. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 150 gp. Brown-green garnet (80 gp).

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a fancy white dress. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Nikki was born the youngest of three triplets. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length red hair. His white eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is an amazing painter.

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. In his 15th year, his parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Thamuz alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to be a dyer again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Guardian. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She carries with her a set of spears on her belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. Her crest, while still mostly copper, has prominent grey streaks. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. After coming to the age of reason, Akra took it upon herself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was granted martial powers by her dying brother.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her chestnut hair is long and unkept. She is baby faced.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 150 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover her moderate length black crest. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dragonborns became a terror of the countryside. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Findex fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is content; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Carter

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears tattered old clothes. He has a long black beard with little hanging trinkets. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 3000 cp. Freshwater pearl (13 gp). 5 Acid flasks.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. His brown hair is knotted and matted. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Priest hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 3'2" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears tattered old clothes. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. 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-brother.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 160 gp.