Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She prefers to wear blue pants and tee shirts. Her brown hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Arara speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Born to a Stylist, her mother struggled to pay the bills. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Merchant. She struck the Merchant job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and she has a crush on the local stylist

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1100 gp. Chrysoprase (30 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears baggy red pantaloons and a yellow scarf. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She hates Halflings with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Myria was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Myria has worked very hard to control her curse. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: Human compassion; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Racist. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. She has a very tight haircut. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed white hat.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the forest to a summer home near a ruined castle. She would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the forest due to the painful memories there. Volen took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up bastard sword and armor she uses now. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 3000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (20 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (20 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2200 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (100 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp).

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Tiefling, and stands approximately 6'1". She wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants, and her gloved hand is found clutching a kukri. Her hair is white and very short. Her eyes are white and catlike.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Artistic, Optimist. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She very much looks the part of a Armorer, and carries kukris. She keeps her white hair in a pixie cut. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her brown eyes.

Personality: Kansif is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Kansif grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 60 pp. 1 Bullseye lantern. 1 Silver holy symbol. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His black hair is singed and shortened. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. Hupe enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Gifted from a young age, Hupe studied abroad. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1900 sp.

Description: She stands about 5'2" and typically wears tan cloth garments or leather armor. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. With wild chestnut hair. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Myathethil is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Myathethil was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Military, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Server

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.