Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a robe, a symbol of strength around his neck, and a scythe on his belt. His golden hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He hates brigands. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Peren hails from a village terrorized by brigands. In his 16th year, his parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Peren alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He wants revenge against brigands; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 5000 cp. Deep blue spinel (300 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Standing 5'2", this woman is wearing a long, white, dusty cloak. Her golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Slave, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1000 gp. Obsidian (14 gp). Rich purple corundum (600 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and is wearing a long, black cloak. Her hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Elven culture. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the south. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and to unite with her brother

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 2900 sp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Tiefling, and stands approximately 4'10". She wears long strands of amethyst and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, and her gloved hand is found clutching a crossbow. She has styled her brown hair well, parting it to the right. Her red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her first spouse was a Tanner, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Tanner they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Slave Trader, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Slave Trader and was forced into it by her family; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Military, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears long strands of sapphire and short tan dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She has shaved her head bald. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. 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: The child of a Ruler, who enjoyed hunting, Lia was taken on many hunting expeditions. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Lia fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 300 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp).

Description: She wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Baker. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Job, Has a crush, Military. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears baggy violet pantaloons and a grey scarf. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was born in the west. 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 left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.