Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her chestnut hair is thinning but still full. Her green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Melissa was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Melissa decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Religious, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Glim was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Persistence, Logical, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 500 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (160 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 4'10" and muscular, this southern woman is wearing a long, tan cloak. She wears her white hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Revenge; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'3" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears suspenders and yellow workpants. Her shirt is green, and she wears a heavy yellow leather apron most of the time. Her brown hair is knotted and matted. Her hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the south. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To be a Body Guard again; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 2'8" and wears baggy white pantaloons and a tan scarf. She is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around her ears. Her eyes are violet.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield.