Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has shaved her head bald. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. Joan enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical, Hedonist. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears a white cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His auburn hair is singed and shortened. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Grûblik wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Expert, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 380 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a blue tunic with brown highlights, and long pastel pants that bunch up around her shoes. She wears her auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the east. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Assassin for the past few years.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and expand her business

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 600 sp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (140 gp).

Description: She wears a brown feathered hat and brown clothes. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: She was born in a small mountains village. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Insomniac. Bonds: Religious, Nature. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: Just what you see.