Description: This dark-skinned female is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has wavy white hair. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. The war was a terrible time for her, and Alice does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Crown-heir arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears tattered old clothes. She has done her best to style her chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Silgre hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Deep green spinel (50 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She has shaved her head bald. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Irann fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Fighting. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 20000 cp. Freshwater pearl (4 gp). White pearl (110 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 3'4" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gray eyes.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. Eberdeb enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Eberdeb was born with his mother's beautiful face. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and balancing his hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she dresses in yellow turtlenecks beneath a green coat with blue slacks. She keeps her long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. She is a great chef.

History: Aline was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She's also a talented Cartwright, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 gp.