Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears a worn and beaten armor. Her green crest is knotted and matted. Her gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Aasathra lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Aasathra abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 800 sp. Red spinel (140 gp).

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. She carries with her a set of shortspears, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Wella has worked very hard to control her curse. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Wella fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (10 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Hunter was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. He worked as a nervous Layabout and found it very stressful. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats.

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Enemies, Religious, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: Moonstone (40 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Amber (160 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp). Jade (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 3'5", this man is renowned for his bright blue suits and hats. He keeps his white hair in a pixie cut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. 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: Born to a Jeweler, his father struggled to pay the bills. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has worked as a Beggar like his father before him.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1400 sp.