Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, marred by chocolates. Her black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Pearl's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. When Pearl reached her early adolescence her Halfling father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She stands about 4'8" and dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She has moderate length dark red hair. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Semyaza 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. 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: She loathes her own lifestyle; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1000 cp. Golden pearl (80 gp).

Description: This woman wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her white hair, when down, is lengthy. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Military, Nature, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This western man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His clothes are grease stained in places. His green crest is braided into rings. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Born to a Fisher, his mother struggled to pay the bills. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: Standing 6'8", this man wears a green vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his green boots flare out at the collars. His crest is gold, silky, and of moderate length. He has a dull look in his red eyes.

Personality: He hates orcs. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He married young, but lost his spouse to orcs. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature monstrous two handed axe.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 150 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears green leather gloves, a green jacket, and tight pants. Her broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 3000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he very much looks the part of a Seamstress. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Seamstress. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Dragonborn companion (his 'brother'). He tends to his Seamstress job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and expand his business

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 2000 cp.