Description: This woman wears a white vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her red leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her white boots flare out at the collars. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her hair is cut close to her head. This violet eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Vola was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her fur, while still mostly cinnamon, has prominent grey streaks. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Family, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 3 Smokesticks. 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. Her auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Yevelda liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Revenge; and she wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She prefers to wear flannel. Her black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Because her father participated in the massacre of their homeland, brigands burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the west, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her mother from journeying west to reunite her family. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

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

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Miller

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 300 sp. Tourmaline (100 gp).