Description: 6'3" and muscular, this eastern woman wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. She has styled her red crest well, parting it to the right. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a grey shirt with thin black vertical stripes and violet pants. Her hair is red and curly. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes giants are coming to abduct people. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Mayor arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature sword.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she is greedy

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 80 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp).

Description: She is a mite stocky and has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her blue robe. Her blonde hair is still thick. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. She has achieved small success as a Mortician.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and balancing her hectic life and new mortician responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Debt, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 150 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His clothes are grease stained in places. His chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His ears are large.

Personality: Bathin is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. Bathin was born on a far southern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Ruler. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1400 gp).

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She has dyed her greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Elven companion (her 'brother'). Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she's looking for her big break

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 140 gp. Brown-green garnet (40 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man wears skinny pants and wears a tan and brown robe with the hood down and is in decent physical shape. He has wavy blonde hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Galinndan was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 170 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: 5'8" and muscular, this northern man is well dressed, constantly wearing a grey suit, black shirt, and green tie. His brown hair is heavily combed to the left. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Anselm was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 2000 cp. 4 Tanglefoot bags.