Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. With wild blonde hair. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He stands about 5'7" and typically wears green cloth garments or leather armor. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His head has been shaved. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: Everard lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Scribe they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Assassin, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 5'0" northern man, he dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a black coat with tan slacks. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length black hair. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his broad green hat.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. Conrad is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 east. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Sage

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

Possessions: 500 gp. Rich purple corundum (800 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Moss agate (11 gp).