Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her morningstar with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and is pretty ugly. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Bethrynna was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She was granted druidic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He has moderate length brown hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: The child of a Stylist, who enjoyed hunting, Takra was taken on many hunting expeditions. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1300 sp. Golden pearl (120 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp).

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'5" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. She has moderate length auburn hair. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: Susannah was born with her mother's beautiful face. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. 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 be a Interpreter again; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1900 gp. Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp).

Description: She sports tan clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her auburn hair is braided into rings. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. Lilli is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Family, Poor. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He carries with him a set of scimitars on his belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. His auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes are violet.

Personality: He is a Adventurer first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Hugh 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 gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and to be a hunter again

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Job, Family, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Citrine (60 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). Moss agate (10 gp). Moss agate (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His hair is cut close to his head. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by giants. Aldous was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things.

Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Attractive. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. She has a hunchback. Her hair is brown and very short. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Meriele hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her painting career. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Meriele grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Her first spouse was a Baker, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.