Description: She wears yellow trousers with blue and violet striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the east. She found a children's book about a Half-Elf Fighter who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Optimist, Philantrophist. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a green tunic with blue highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around his shoes. His dark red hair has been sun bleached extensively. His white eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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 actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Nicor was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Nicor decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

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; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Religious, Nature, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Golden pearl (140 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He is physically well-built. His white hair is braided into rings. His brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born in the east. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Body Guard. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and doesn't want to be a body guard and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 3 Thunderstones.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a bastard sword on his belt. He has no hair. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. 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-brother.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Depressed. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 4000 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2100 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (170 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (170 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (170 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (5000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a violet wide-brimmed hat and violet clothes. She has wavy brown hair. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: Born in the south to a Farmer, Emma learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Emma was born on a far southern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Farmer. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 7 years.

Motivation: She is content; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Impeccable, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a black tunic with blue highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around her shoes, and she perpetually has her longbow ready. Her hair is cut close to her head. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Half-Elven companion (her 'brother'). She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Courier

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 300 gp. Jade (80 gp). Blue sapphire (900 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs. Her auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Sarah lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing her hectic life and new bather responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Slave, Family, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1 Chain shirt.