Description: She is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. She carries with her a set of greataxes on her belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. She keeps her long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Balifra speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside her partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 6000 cp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp).

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Barkeep work with an outfit from a few towns over. Barkeep work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He has achieved small success as a Barkeep.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Nature, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 5000 gp. Peridot (60 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (600 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Pink pearl (60 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Sard (60 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (600 gp). White opal (600 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. This gray eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was raised in a forest tribe. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

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: Athletic, Logical. Bonds: Guardian, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This woman wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She sports a flattop fur cut. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep yellow.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes brigands are coming to abduct people. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing painting.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and she wants revenge against brigands

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, In love. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 3000 gp. Obsidian (12 gp). White opal (1400 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp).

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears a blue shirt, with a black mid length skirt with black tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her hair is short and red. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Religious, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 1100 gp. Malachite (13 gp). Jet (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Body Guard. His copper crest is long and unkept. His gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He bought a warhammer and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 38000 sp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Tiefling, and stands approximately 6'0". He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during, and his gloved hand is found clutching a axe. He has moderate length brown hair. His ears are large.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Forcas has worked very hard to control his curse. He has dedicated himself to building a better world.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 5000 cp.