Description: This younger middle-aged woman prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her hair is cut close to her head. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Half-Orcs in Ekk's homeland. Ekk decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: In love, Nature, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 360 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She carries with her a set of maces, each one with a jet on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She has shaved her head bald. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She is a great chef.

History: Born in the south to a Shoemaker, Yvonne learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She struck the Shoemaker job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is an amazing painter.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman wears silk and lounges about seductively, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her hair is blonde and curly. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. 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: She comes from a rich southern family. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Disciplined, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 1900 gp. Old masterpiece painting (2200 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (90 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a green coat with blue slacks. Her chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Veloptima was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. In her 19th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 600 gp.