Description: She is a husky woman, who is wearing a long, yellow cloak. She wears a colorful flower in her white hair. She has a dull look in her amber eyes.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Mara isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Elven unity. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Mara was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Impeccable, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 700 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman prefers to wear flannel. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on her left hand. Her white hair is lengthy. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: Bendoo was born with her father's beautiful face. Bendoo liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 500 gp. Chrysoprase (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Sard (60 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her yellow fur is knotted and matted. Her eyes are likewise copper.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She was granted martial powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Military, Religious. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Zircon (60 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). 1 Chain shirt.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he wears professional attire. His auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Joker, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 35000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She prefers to wear flannel. With bright black hair. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She worked as a nervous Miller and found it very stressful. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature shortbow.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and to reunite with her old friends

Flaws: Disease, Terse, Secretive. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and dresses in pastel turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with black slacks. He wears a colorful flower in his yellow fur. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Great embodies much of what other species detest in the Tabaxis. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Through the years after Great was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Great's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 350 gp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'8" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was born in a small forest village. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Military, Nature, Slave. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She has a long white ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her gray eyes peer out from beneath her top grey hat.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Brewer who has hired her part-time. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was born in the west. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Fallthra and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To settle down with her crush; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 20 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp).

Description: He wears bulky black painted plate armor. He is physically well-built. His red hair is greasy and uncared for. His silver eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 60 pp.