Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears dull brown sweaters, loose pastel pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed pickaxe, just in case. Her blonde hair is cut short. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 8. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. 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: Born to a pair of adventurers, Helen grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She found a children's book about a Human Monk 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's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Addict. Bonds: Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 500 gp. Star rose quartz (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears yellow robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a falchion, but if one is not available she will default to her warhammer. She wears her red hair down. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has achieved small success as a Butcher.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 10000 cp. Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Blue sapphire (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He has a hunchback. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Aldous is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Aldous 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. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and many giants want him driven away

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Has a crush. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her copper crest is still thick. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. 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, Gilkass is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 100 pp. Onyx (80 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She has a missing left arm. She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She enjoys reading and quiet.

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. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. After a long history of fighting, Theirastra and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She has dyed her greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. Her brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Naivara will drive conversation. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Naivara was born the youngest of three triplets. Through the years after Naivara was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Naivara's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Gardener they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Fisher, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 11000 cp. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head, and she perpetually has her pickaxe ready. Her silver hair is still thick. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Cynical, Insomniac. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 300 gp.