Description: This tall, slender woman dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a yellow coat with black slacks. She has no hair. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. The war was a terrible time for her, and Althaea does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Althaea was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. She wears a worn and beaten armor. She has a hunchback. With wild chestnut hair. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with dancing. She constantly tries to fill her life with dancing. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Oda 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 Oda. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

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.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 8000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He has a missing right leg. He wears a white collared shirt and green pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Chrysoberyl (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady, and is pretty ugly. Her black hair is cut short. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Ermina speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she is greedy

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: She stands about 3'0" and wears a blue collared shirt and green skirt. She accessorizes with a grey scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: This woman loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered singing. She has never given up on her singing dream.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is greedy

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 1800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is dressed in an above average manner. His bronze crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Gifted from a young age, Kiirith studied abroad. 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 was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Religious. Occupation: Server

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1700 gp. Pink pearl (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She has a large green mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her brown robe. Her long scarlet crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her gold eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Akra was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. She worked as a nervous Sage and found it very stressful. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Sage for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Addict, Sensitive, Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 60000 cp. Black pearl (1100 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Golden pearl (140 gp).

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: Peridot (80 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull black iron scale mail. He carries with him a set of ceremonial daggers, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around his ears. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. After coming to the age of reason, Nalral 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 was granted druidic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 500 sp.