Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. His blonde hair is matted, messy, and big. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Rendar speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He tends to his Spice Merchant job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 400 gp. Tourmaline (120 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He is an epitome of beauty. His moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Stableman profession.

History: Efferil lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His first spouse was a Stableman, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Roofer.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 31000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her brown hair is well kept. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She got into the Weaver business at a young age. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has achieved small success as a Weaver.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman tends to wear a yellow poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt, and a wedding ring on her right hand. With wild auburn hair. Her skin is flawless and her gray eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Map Maker but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her father. She found a children's book about a Half-Elf Aristocrat 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 has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a robe, a symbol of death around her neck, and a sai on her belt. She has no fur. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are copper.

Personality: Windy speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. 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. Windy fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Merchant

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

Possessions: 4000 gp. Red-brown spinel (90 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He has a long white beard with little hanging trinkets. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 26000 cp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: 5'8" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a black vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her black boots flare out at the collars. Her dark red hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her white eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Lerissa lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and doesn't want to be a spice merchant and was forced into it by her family

Flaws: Mundane, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 1 Bullseye lantern.

Description: She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She keeps her auburn hair in a flapper bob. Her gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Galiena was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the north were limited. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is typically in her Body Guard uniform. She has auburn hair. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

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 is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Because her mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, orcs burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her father from journeying north to reunite her family. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Body Guard and was forced into it by her family.

Bonds: Job, Attractive, Family, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (70 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (70 gp). Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1600 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp).