Description: This western woman wears a tan broad hat and tan clothes. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Halfling culture. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her father. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears a robe, a symbol of her god around her neck, and a rapier on her belt. She sports brown long hair. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. In her 19th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 140 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (130 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He keeps his brown hair in a pixie cut. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Merihim was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 50 pp. Moss agate (7 gp). Rich purple corundum (1600 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Blue star sapphire (1600 gp). Eye agate (7 gp).

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 4'2" and wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around her neck, and a axe on her belt. She has moderate length white hair. Her blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: Gifted from a young age, Finellen studied abroad. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Family, Slave. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears tan robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a spear, but if one is not available she will default to her glaive. Her white hair is cut short. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. The war was a terrible time for her, and Antinua does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Born in the west to a Dyer, Antinua learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Antinua has worked very hard to control her curse. She's also a talented Bowyer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She wears bulky brown painted plate armor. Her black hair is lengthy. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. Barbena is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and expand her business

Bonds: Family, Slave, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has a silver handlebar mustache and slicked back silver hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Family, Religious. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: A delicate brass dragon egg (70 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1900 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (70 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (70 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.