Description: She is renowned for her bright blue dresses and hats. She is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around her ears. This gray eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats; and many dire rats want her driven away

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 800 sp. Pink pearl (60 gp). Moonstone (30 gp).

Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. She carries a battered monstrous two handed axe and tarnished longbow as well. Her hair is white, silky, and of moderate length. Her eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Detective

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he prefers to wear black clothing when he does not wear armor. His blue crest is thinning but still full. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Rathkran hails from a village terrorized by giants. In his 13th year, his parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Rathkran alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This tall, slender woman prefers to wear black clothing when she does not wear armor. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Through the years after Sorath was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Sorath's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted, Logical, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This eastern man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has no crest. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Nithther was born on a far eastern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Ploughman. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 30 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.