Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her red hair is long and unkept. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Ielenia hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. Her parents were killed by gnolls in a raid when she was still a young child. The gnolls captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and she wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a tan costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: The child of a Carter, who enjoyed hunting, Oppleby was taken on many hunting expeditions. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He has dedicated himself to building a better world.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 42000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She has slicked back silver hair. Her eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Ekk hails from a village terrorized by brigands. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by brigands. Ekk was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants. His red hair is braided into rings. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. After a long history of fighting, Don and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Lazy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 20 pp. 3 Antitoxin.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively, and carries bows. He wears his silver hair up. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Barfa fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Server

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 300 sp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (30 gp).