Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a brown collared shirt and black skirt. She accessorizes with a yellow scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her hair is white and curly. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady green eyes.

Personality: Joan wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Bard, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 4'10", this woman wears long strands of sapphire and short grey dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her hair is cut close to her head. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. When Griselda reached her early adolescence her Human mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Mentor, Military. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She has a long chestnut ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Nurkara grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 2300 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a pastel armored body suit, with a simple tan line shooting up and back down. Her white fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Joker, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 2000 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a black wide-brimmed hat and black clothes. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length white crest. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady red eyes.

Personality: He is a Bather first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Fax was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Has a crush, In love. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears just a tan suit. Her silver hair is long and unkept. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

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. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is her passion; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He is dressed in a clean red cloak covering his clean studded leather. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is blonde and curly. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Pikar grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insane, Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.