Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears a brown vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her white leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her brown boots flare out at the collars. Her black fur is smooth and relatively long. Her copper eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: The child of a Glassblower, who enjoyed hunting, River was taken on many hunting expeditions. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Many gnolls want her driven away; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, In love. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 600 gp. Bloodstone (80 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). Chrysoberyl (150 gp). White pearl (150 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp).

Description: This woman is wearing a long, white, dusty cloak. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her auburn hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her mother. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Neega 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 Neega. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and money/treasure

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 11000 cp.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Lamlis 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 is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears bulky tan painted plate armor. Her black hair is unkempt and raggedy. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: Oda hails from a village terrorized by illithids. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: Coral (60 gp). Rose (20 gp). Malachite (15 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'0". She 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 long and golden with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small blue clips. Her ears are large.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Quelenna is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Quelenna fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears tan painted combat armor at almost all times. His black hair is singed and shortened. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Himo lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 east. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears professional attire. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He keeps his yellow fur in a flapper bob. His yellow eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Born to a Carpenter, his mother struggled to pay the bills. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has achieved small success as a Body Guard.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and an old rival family wants him found

Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job, Poor, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Half-Plate.