Description: 4'9" and muscular, this southern woman wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Optimist. Bonds: Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 50 pp.

Description: This woman wears a white cloak and cross-gartered black stockings, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her hair is cut close to her head. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Jillian is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the west. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1000 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (140 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (140 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (60 gp).

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears tan robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a sai, but if one is not available she will default to her morningstar. Her hair is silver and curly. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Born in the east to a Masseuse, Ella learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She struck the Masseuse job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: To end her boredom.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Debt. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears just a brown suit. Her black hair is wavy and long. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Ahlyssa was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Gardener they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Cook, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and many gnolls want her driven away

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 120000 cp. Black pearl (1600 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Fire opal (700 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp).