Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: This woman loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her music with anyone who is interested.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Shepherd arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 360 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). 2 Holy water.

Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her monstrous two handed axe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. Her silver hair is cut short. Her eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Anne 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. Anne decided she wanted neither the life of her mother 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. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Flaws: Selfish, Lazy. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Server

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 800 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (600 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (500 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He likes to wear grey tank tops with green pants. His chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a brown costume with the symbols of the sun god on his torso and is in decent physical shape. He has dyed his greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: Gilthur hails from a village terrorized by orcs. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 22000 sp. Jasper (80 gp). Rich purple corundum (900 gp). Jet (50 gp). Rose (80 gp). White opal (900 gp).