Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'2" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She wears a colorful flower in her brown hair. Her hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Audhild lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a fancy tan suit. He carries with him a set of axes on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Doctor. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Eiravel fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Military, Religious. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her auburn hair is singed and shortened. She has a dull look in her violet eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. 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, Anastrianna is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Anastrianna was born the youngest of three triplets. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the plains to a summer home near a large cave. She would wander through that large cave 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 plains due to the painful memories there. Anastrianna took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up shortbow and armor she uses now. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Nature. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a grey shirt with thin red vertical stripes and tan pants, and carries falchions. Her blonde hair is matted, messy, and big. Her ears are large.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Navigator profession.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Juliana was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. 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 used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and balancing her hectic life and new spy responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 40 gp. Smoky quartz (50 gp).

Description: He wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. He is physically well-built. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Server

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1300 gp. Tourmaline (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). White pearl (70 gp). Moss agate (10 gp). White opal (1100 gp).

Description: This malnourished man wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with tan colored cloaks and clothing. His white hair is cut short. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 500 gp.