Description: This woman stands a little under 4'9" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. Her brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. She has brown eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In her 20th 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. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has done his best to style his brown hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are gray.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Ûshgol was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and to be a healer again

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her red fur is matted, messy, and big. Her copper eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Shipwright hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 500 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (120 gp).

Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame, and he perpetually has his greatsword ready. He has styled his orange fur well, parting it to the left. He has a dull look in his copper eyes.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Bookbinder business.

History: Art was born the youngest of three triplets. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Bookbinder. He has worked as a Bookbinder like his father before him.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, marred by sweets. Her silver hair is smooth and relatively long. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was born into a rich family. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is greedy; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: Just what you see.