Description: She is lean but muscular and prefers to wear flannel. She wears her red hair down. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Galiena isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Human unity. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She bought a whip and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears violet painted combat armor at almost all times. He sports a flattop hair cut. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. A friendly and beautiful Half-Elf, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Randal was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Randal abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature greatsword.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Bonds: Guardian, Attractive, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. With bright white hair and a scraggly beard. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur, Logical. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 12000 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (140 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Unemployed. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his greatsword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. This green eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Nelkin was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and expand his business

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor, Job, Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 250 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp).

Description: This man prefers to wear red pants and tee shirts. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. A gifted student he started as a Butcher, but he got bored and became a Barrister. He has achieved small success as a Barrister.

Motivation: Many giants want him driven away; and he wants revenge against giants

Flaws: Shy, Selfish. Bonds: Military, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Bloodstone (40 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp).

Description: She tends to wear a brown poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. With bright auburn hair. Her half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Born to a Cartwright, her father struggled to pay the bills. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Shy, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 4000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp).

Description: He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His long auburn hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Názkûga hails from a village terrorized by giants. His parents were killed by giants in a raid when he was still a young child. The giants captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it; and balancing his hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 600 gp. Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Jade (70 gp).