Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a worn and beaten armor. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are black and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Born in the east to a Bricklayer, Akta learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 70 pp. Blue quartz (4 gp). Amethyst (50 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman likes to wear grey tank tops with red skirt. Her golden hair is unkempt and raggedy. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While she appears to be a normal Dwarf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She was granted divine powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 240 gp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a black tunic with grey highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around his shoes, and is pretty ugly. His red hair is greasy and uncared for. His silver eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 south. He bought a pickaxe and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Family, Nature, Guardian. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: Freshwater pearl (6 gp).

Description: This malnourished woman has a large blue mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her yellow robe. Her chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Born to a Sculptor, her father struggled to pay the bills. 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: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she wants to get laid

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears a green armored body suit, with a simple blue line shooting up and back down. Her brown hair is knotted and matted. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She has all her life been fascinated with music.

History: Verin hails from a village terrorized by goblins. In her 16th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and many goblins want her driven away

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 3000 cp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (170 gp).