Description: This fat southern woman has a bulbous nose and wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Expand her business; and many gnolls want her driven away

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her scythe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She takes great joy in being the best Cook in town.

History: Oriel hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Cook. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 400 gp. Black pearl (1400 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Fire opal (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged woman is dressed in earthy colors with a green and violet handkerchief worn on her left side and is in decent physical shape. Her hair is auburn and very short. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gray.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

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. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She has dedicated herself to building a better village for her children.

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

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 6000 sp. Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He sports a long auburn beard, and similarly colored long hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his green eyes.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp).