Description: 5'9" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She tends to wear a yellow poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length brown hair. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are violet.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Avice is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it; and a deep hatred of orcs

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 240 gp. Chrysoberyl (50 gp). Jade (50 gp). Jade (50 gp). 4 Acid flasks.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft tan waves gently in the breeze. She keeps her blonde hair in a flapper bob. Her eyes are likewise brown. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Galiena was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she's attracted to the pc

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Has a crush, Mentor. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 160 gp. Black pearl (200 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has wavy black hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Dworic was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Healer. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 1800 sp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has a hunchback. He sports a long black beard, and similarly colored long hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Cory grew up listening to his father's many stories. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Mayor; and he's in love

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 370 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears tattered old clothes. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 east. 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: Regain custody of his son; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 220 gp. White opal (600 gp).