Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her red hair is singed and shortened. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family As a very small child her family refused to pay dues to a local crime lord, who ordered them killed. Her father, a somewhat powerful mage sought to protect her and cast a teleportation spell that whisked her away. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is renowned for her bright violet dresses and hats, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She has wavy chestnut hair. Her eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: She was born in a small island village. She moved out west to avoid the crime she committed. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Half-Orc people; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: In love, Adventurer, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears just a tan suit. His silver hair is matted, messy, and big. His eyes are likewise green.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Painter. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull green iron scale mail, and carries shortspears. His blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. His blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 70 gp. Chrysoberyl (40 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. His white hair is thinning but still full. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (150 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a brown vest and prefers green and black shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She carries with her a set of crossbows on her belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. She wears her gray fur down. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was born into a rich family. Her parents were killed by gnolls in a raid when she was still a young child. The gnolls captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. 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.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She has black hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She has never given up on her writing dream.

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

Ideals: Joker, Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 600 gp.