Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Engong was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Engong 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 Engong. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Joker, Persistence. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He wears a white shirt with thin yellow vertical stripes and black pants. He carries a battered greataxe and tarnished mace as well. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Curran grew up listening to his father's many stories. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Addict. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Red garnet (130 gp). Amber (130 gp).

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a simple tan robe with green stripes complete with hood. She has no hair. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. 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: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the north. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. After a long history of fighting, Veloptima and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 300 sp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (130 gp).

Description: She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. With wild black hair. Her blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Sellsword business.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence, Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 350 gp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Glim hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his singing career. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Glim lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He struck the Bellfounder job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 4'8" and muscular, this northern woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. 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: To find somewhere to settle down; and she is content

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish, Mundane. Bonds: Debt. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 360 pp. Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Amethyst (90 gp). Zircon (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears bulky black painted plate armor. Her black hair is matted, messy, and big. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady red eyes.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 100 gp.