Description: She is dressed in a clean yellow cloak covering her clean studded leather. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her tied-back hair is auburn. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Family, Rich, Slave, In love. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 20 pp. Cloth of gold vestments (80 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He tends to wear a large grey jacket. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Eberk liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He struck the Interpreter job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Gifted, Professionalism. Bonds: Nature, Job, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 210 gp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: He has a missing left arm. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he is greedy

Flaws: Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 40 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Zook 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. Zook 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. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: She wears a yellow cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her quarterstaff, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. Her blonde hair is singed and shortened. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: Ielenia hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by gnolls. Ielenia was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She tends to wear a large yellow jacket. She wears her brown hair up. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. 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: She is a Hag in disguise. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature lance.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Adventurer, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 2000 sp. Aquamarine (800 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'7" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears an entirely grey suit with yellow socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She has a very tight haircut. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Herleva fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Just what you see.