Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Shax hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She was born in a small mountains village. 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. Now she works as a writing tutor during her time off.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest, and is pretty ugly. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a blue deerstalker hat and blue clothes. Her silver hair is cut short. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born to a Ruler, her mother struggled to pay the bills. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is her passion; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Half-Orc culture. 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: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when drow swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Tiefling conditions. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: She is dressed in a clean black cloak covering her clean studded leather. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She keeps her black hair in a flapper bob. Her red eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Adventurer arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Joker, Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 100 gp.