Description: 6'3" and muscular, this eastern woman wears a green cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. Her red crest is long and unkept. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Soapmaker but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Through the years after Eggren was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Eggren's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Eggren and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He dresses like a well dressed Courier does, and carries halberds. His black hair is lengthy. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Harbek was born with his mother's beautiful face. His childhood dream was to be a Architect, but he was a colossal failure. He has worked as a Courier like his mother before him.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and revenge

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Attractive. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 180 pp.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He carries a battered trident and tarnished shortbow as well. His auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. 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. Zogdûsh fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 pp. Sardonyx (30 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is dressed in earthy colors with a yellow and black handkerchief worn on his left side. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Elves became a terror of the countryside. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and revenge

Ideals: Impeccable, Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 1000 sp. Jet (110 gp). Sard (70 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1100 gp). Obsidian (11 gp).

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His white hair is heavily combed to the right. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady green eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

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. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Elves in the east were limited. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Justice, Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 300 gp. Obsidian (6 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Jade (110 gp). Malachite (6 gp).

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. He wears his gold crest up. His gold eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Trynnicus lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Trynnicus 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 Trynnicus. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has a white handlebar mustache and slicked back white hair. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Debt, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp).

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She has auburn hair. She has gray eyes and a black hat with a brown feather.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Half-Orcs in Huru's homeland. Huru decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp).

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He sports a flattop hair cut. His half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. 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 remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (100 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2400 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (500 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.