Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Gruk 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. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she is dressed in a clean white cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her brown hair is wavy and long. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with writing. She constantly tries to fill her life with writing. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 30 gp. Eye agate (15 gp).

Description: This malnourished woman wears tattered old clothes. Her hair is black and very short. She has red eyes and a black hat with a tan feather.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 2 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Spear was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 400 gp. Pink pearl (160 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Brown-green garnet (160 gp). 1 Half-Plate.