Description: This late middle aged woman is typically in her Dyer uniform and is in decent physical shape. Her red hair is still thick. Her silver eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Ea is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Mercenary profession.

History: She was born in a small desert village. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Dyer for the past few years.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Nature, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 700 gp. Banded agate (14 gp). Malachite (14 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it. His auburn hair is lengthy. His eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: He is mildly Human supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Rich, Guardian. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 120 gp. Chrysoprase (80 gp).

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She carries with her a set of kukris on her belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. She keeps her long black hair kept up in a rat tail. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of brigands once and for all.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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 has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: She got into the Tailor business at a young age. 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 bought a quarterstaff and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and a strong sense of loyalty to elven people

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and yellow handkerchief worn on her right side. She has no hair. Her gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. 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: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Pacifist, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 150 pp. Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp).

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she prefers to wear blue pants and tee shirts. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Sariel is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. 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 knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Military, Rich. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 9000 cp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears a robe, a symbol of death around her neck, and a flail on her belt. Her white hair is heavily combed to the right. Her green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Buvvie was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Animal Trainer. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Animal Trainer responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1000 gp. Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). White opal (1100 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears long strands of opal and short violet dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Raymond was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and expand his business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 700 pp. Red spinel (160 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Sard (20 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Amber (160 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man wears tattered old clothes. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. 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 served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. A freak accident while working with his Architect father left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 400 gp. Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp).