Description: This woman wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her head has been shaved. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with dancing. She constantly tries to fill her life with dancing. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Azurite (15 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Orc, and stands approximately 5'7". She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt, and her gloved hand is found clutching a halberd. Her hair is short and red. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ovak grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Ovak. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 600 gp. Black opal (400 gp). Golden pearl (160 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Hematite (7 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears professional attire. His blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his feathered violet hat.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Gifted from a young age, Heian studied abroad. His parents enrolled him in a Commoner school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: French accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a yellow vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His blue leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his yellow boots flare out at the collars. His hair is brown and curly. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and expand his business

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears grey trousers with white and violet striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She keeps her golden hair in a pixie cut. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Agatha was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a black shirt with thin white vertical stripes and grey pants. He carries with him a set of lances on his belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. He has no hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the south. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 200 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.

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 6'5" when asserting herself. Her red hair is greasy and uncared for. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. She disdains her fellow southerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. A gifted student she started as a Carpenter, but she got bored and became a Bricklayer. She struck the Bricklayer job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Bricklayer responsibilities is difficult; and to be a carpenter again

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a pastel suit, black shirt, and tan tie. He wears a colorful flower in his yellow fur. His skin is flawless and his blue eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. Cloak is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the east. After coming to the age of reason, Cloak took it upon himself to study the druidic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (10 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.