Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She keeps her blonde hair in a flapper bob. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Herleva was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Opinionated, Optimist. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (1000 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp).

Description: This southern man dresses like a well dressed Doctor does. His clothes are grease stained in places. His black hair is knotted and matted. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: He was born in the south. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it; and further expansion of business

Bonds: Job, Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: Smoky quartz (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). 4 Smokesticks. 3 Alchemist’s fire. 4 Smokesticks.

Description: This woman is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured, and sports empty pouches on her belt. With wild chestnut hair. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Avice was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable.

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His chestnut hair is cut short. He has blue eyes.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Has a crush, Military. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.