Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a blue shirt, with a brown mid length skirt with brown tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She is baby faced.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Nature, Slave. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he tends to wear a violet poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He wears his red hair up. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to protect his home

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Guardian, Military, Mentor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

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

Possessions: 2000 gp. Chrysoprase (30 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears long strands of amethyst and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His white hair is thinning but still full. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. Merihim enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. 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. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 60 pp. Red spinel (90 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). White opal (900 gp). Chrysoberyl (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is in excellent shape and likes to wear blue tank tops with brown skirt. Her red hair is heavily combed to the right. Her half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Panana was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Many dire rats want her driven away; and revenge

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: Golden pearl (90 gp). Jet (90 gp). Jade (90 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp).

Description: This northern woman wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her silver hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are brown.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Elves in Baelitae's homeland. Baelitae decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Seamstress

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

Possessions: 30 pp. Sardonyx (70 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp).