Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with white colored cloaks and clothing. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. To her fellows she 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: Gifted from a young age, Pennie studied abroad. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Courier for the past few years.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 220 gp. 8 Acid flasks.

Description: This light-skinned female wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her chestnut hair is still thick. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Jacoba abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Jacoba never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and to protect her home

Bonds: Guardian, Adventurer, Rich, In love. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 10000 cp. Blue star sapphire (1200 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Jade (120 gp). Amber (120 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has styled his cinnamon fur well, parting it to the left. He has a dull look in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and expand his business

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Religious, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, marred by chocolates. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Watson grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Watson. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his crossbow with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He carries with him a set of crossbows on his belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. In his youth he was a Fisher, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger sister on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Fisher they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Masseuse, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 20000 cp. Azurite (14 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp). Sard (50 gp). 7 Acid flasks. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. His auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 200 pp. Fire opal (700 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Azurite (8 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. His auburn hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker grey hat.

Personality: He hates orcs. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: Anthony was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. His parents enrolled him in a Warrior school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur, Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 70 gp.