Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a black shirt, with a brown mid length skirt with brown tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. 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 is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Full Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Full Plate.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a simple black robe with grey stripes complete with hood. His brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. Anselm enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: The child of a Cook, who enjoyed hunting, Anselm was taken on many hunting expeditions. His parents were killed by orcs in a raid when he was still a young child. The orcs captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He bought a longsword and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and many orcs want him driven away

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 5000 sp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze. He has a hunchback. His hair is chestnut and very short. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: William was born the youngest of three triplets. 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 reunite with his absent father.

Flaws: Ugly, Greedy, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her hair is long and red with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small pastel clips. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Hugolina never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, In love, Military. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item.