Description: She is wearing a long, brown cloak. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She takes great joy in being the best Mercenary in town.

History: Joan was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She moved out south to avoid the crime she committed. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2700 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1000 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (60 gp). A small bag of saffron. (60 gp).

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears bulky pastel painted plate armor. She wears her yellow fur down. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Extrovert, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 500 pp. Old masterpiece painting (1300 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (40 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (3000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This malnourished man wears a grey coat over a red low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon his head. He keeps his auburn hair in a pixie cut. His skin is flawless and his amber eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Ruler hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 8000 cp. Deep green spinel (160 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Jet (160 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman prefers to wear flannel. Her hair is brown and very short. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Born in the east to a Dilettante, Nija learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Coral (110 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Silver pearl (110 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Coral (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman usually wears her black robe and has her bow always slung over her shoulder, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her chestnut hair is knotted and matted. Her violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. 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: To reunite with her absent mother; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears a black coat over a white low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon her head. She has moderate length chestnut hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. 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 routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 300 gp. Blue quartz (16 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He prefers to wear brown clothing when he does not wear armor. He keeps his black fur 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 hazel eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. 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: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and doesn't want to be a tanner and was forced into it by his family

Flaws: Depressed, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, In love, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 170 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.