Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her silver hair is wavy and long. She wears large thick round spectacles.

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. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Nature, Religious, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Onyx (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears long strands of jet and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His black hair is singed and shortened. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Half-Orcs.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. 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: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Ugly, Emotional, Racist. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: She wears light armors faded through time and improper care, and she perpetually has her lance ready. Her auburn hair has been sun bleached extensively. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: Ekk lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1300 gp. Golden yellow topaz (200 gp).

Description: Standing 4'8", this woman wears tan leather gloves, a tan jacket, and tight pants. Her brown hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: Dara was born with her mother's beautiful face. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Secretive, Impulsive. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 200 gp. Jade (50 gp).

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a black coat with yellow slacks. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has no fur. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the north. His parents enrolled him in a Paladin school at a young age so that he could practice his druidic talents. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away.

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 1400 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (140 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (800 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (140 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a red coat. With wild chestnut hair. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born in the east to a Shepherd, Andry learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 6 years.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 4000 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp).

Description: This man is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His hair is white and very short. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He struck the Painter job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 40 gp. Jet (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.