Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she is renowned for her bright blue dresses and hats. Her red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Meena speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Meena grew up listening to her mother's many stories. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs. Her tied-back hair is black. Her green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Tyna will drive conversation. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Knight arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In her 11th year, her parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Tyna alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Tyna was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Extrovert, Optimist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Halflings in Ortegar's homeland. Ortegar decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted, Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His black fur is still thick. His copper eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Knight. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Knight for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Military, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 350 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.