Description: 3'0" and muscular, this northern woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her hair is red and curly. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic. Bonds: Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 7000 sp.

Description: He is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His auburn hair is matted, messy, and big. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady hazel eyes.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the east were limited. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Miner and was forced into it by his family; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: This southern man wears a red shirt with thin grey vertical stripes and brown pants. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears a colorful flower in his blonde hair. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Carpenter hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Disciplined, Professionalism. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1 Buckler.

Description: She stands about 5'9" and wears an entirely black suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her black hair is braided into rings. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with poetry. She constantly tries to fill her life with poetry. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Azza 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.

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 400 sp. Red garnet (100 gp).

Description: This malnourished man is dressed in a clean white cloak covering his clean studded leather. He keeps his long red hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Family, Religious. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: Obsidian (7 gp). Azurite (7 gp). Jasper (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a grey shirt, with a pastel mid length shorts with pastel tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was born into a rich family. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She has shaved her head bald. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was granted druidic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 600 gp. Fire opal (800 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.