Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her black eyes.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 700 gp. Amber (120 gp).

Description: She wears a pastel collared shirt and tan skirt. She accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has styled her lavender fur well, parting it to the left. She has gleaming, smiling yellow eyes.

Personality: Kite is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: Kite was born the youngest of three triplets. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Kite fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and to pay off her debts

Ideals: Extrovert, Entrepeneur, Fighting. Bonds: Family, Debt. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 500 sp. Alexandrite (300 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He prefers to wear grey pants and tee shirts. His blonde hair is braided into rings. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 10 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Beloril never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Poor, In love. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 400 gp. Onyx (50 gp).

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her mace with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt, marred by sweets. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: Ella lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears a black armored body suit, with a simple tan line shooting up and back down. She keeps her chestnut hair in a flapper bob. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She hates giants. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. His hair is golden, silky, and of moderate length. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Gifted from a young age, Pirithin studied abroad. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Military. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 4000 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (600 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp).

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her beige fur is thinning but still full. Her hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Drifting will drive conversation. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was born in the east. 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 achieved small success as a Knight.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Extrovert, Philantrophist. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (90 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is typically in his Ruler uniform. His crest is white, silky, and of moderate length. His half smiles and red eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 400 gp. Star rose quartz (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She likes to wear tan tank tops with black skirt. Her brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. 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 believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: The child of a Detective, who enjoyed hunting, Symma was taken on many hunting expeditions. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Symma was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Nature, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 27000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.