Description: She is a mite stocky and is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She has a very tight haircut. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Gunnloda was born with her mother's beautiful face. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 30 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Cook. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly crossbows and scythes. His hair is golden and very short. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. When Heian reached his early adolescence his Elf father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer, Nature, Military. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 280 gp.

Description: This southern woman prefers to wear flannel. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her black crest is unkempt and raggedy. Her red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Merchant 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: To prove her worth to the world; and balancing her hectic life and new merchant responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Half-Elves. Her skin is dark but she possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. She prefers to wear violet pants and tee shirts. Her brown 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: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 40 gp. Malachite (14 gp). Jet (160 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp).

Description: 4'9" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a violet vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his violet boots flare out at the collars. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly bows and longbows. She wears her copper crest up. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gold.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered writing. After a long history of fighting, Biri and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: 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; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1500 gp. Golden pearl (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender woman is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright grey and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She dropped out of school to support her sick mother, and resented it. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Sailor and was forced into it by her family.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1600 sp. 4 Tanglefoot bags.