Description: This eastern woman is wearing a tight blue one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her long blonde hair reaches down to her waist. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She can't help but pocket interesting objects she comes across

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: 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; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 900 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a blue and grey robe with the hood down. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Heian hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 1400 gp. Citrine (40 gp). Coral (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. His crest is cut close to his head. His gold eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A freak accident while working with his Mercenary mother left him crippled. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by gnolls. Dazzazn was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and many gnolls want him driven away

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict, Disease. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 1800 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman wears silk and lounges about seductively, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with her Spy mother left her crippled. She has never given up on her singing dream.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 170 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: 3'1" and muscular, this southern man has a large white mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his black robe. He has dyed his greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. Ortegar enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to pay off his debts

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 10000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her crest, while still mostly copper, has prominent grey streaks. This gold eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing writing.

History: Ruloth was born with her father's beautiful face. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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 moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a green vest and prefers brown and red shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Her parents enrolled her in a Adept school at a young age so that she could practice her necromantic talents. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 2000 gp. Aquamarine (200 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Blue-white diamond (7000 gp). Blue sapphire (1500 gp). Amethyst (140 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Imsh isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Orc unity. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'5" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He has moderate length brown hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Born in the west to a Healer, Morthos learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job, Family. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1600 gp. Eye agate (8 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp). Malachite (8 gp). Rich purple corundum (400 gp).