Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her shield with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She keeps her long white crest kept up in a rat tail. Her gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Courier arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Gnomish compassion; and a strong sense of loyalty to gnomish people

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Racist. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze. Her golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Navigator. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: She comes from a rich western family. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Navigator responsibilities is difficult; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 70 gp. Brown-green garnet (40 gp). Red garnet (40 gp). 3 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: She wears dull black sweaters, loose violet pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed morningstar, just in case. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her purple hair is matted, messy, and big. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Gifted from a young age, Vapula studied abroad. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the forest to a summer home near a old dungeon. She would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the forest due to the painful memories there. Vapula took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up morningstar and armor she uses now. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with violet lining and desert motifs. Her chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Born in the south to a Actor, Dara learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has worked as a Actor like her mother before her.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her brown fur is still thick. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are blue.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Nimble grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Nimble. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Engraver and was forced into it by her family.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Family, Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her red robe. Her bronze crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Zykroff fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His hair is short and white. He has red eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. Thamuz abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Joker, Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 3'2" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears tattered old clothes. Her head has been shaved. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. She sports black long hair. She has a dull look in her gray eyes.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Jeweler who has hired her part-time. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: Katherine was born with her mother's beautiful face. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To settle down with her crush; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Has a crush, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 20 pp. 4 Thunderstones.