Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a black cloak and cross-gartered red stockings. Her tied-back hair is chestnut. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: Born in the north to a Locksmith, Nagrette learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She tends to her Locksmith job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

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 meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1100 gp. Blue quartz (14 gp). Pink pearl (140 gp). Golden pearl (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She dresses like a well dressed Sellsword does. Her silver hair is greasy and uncared for. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Emeny will drive conversation. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Born to a Map Maker, her father struggled to pay the bills. 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 Sellsword. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor, Military. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her glaive with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length golden hair. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: She wears dull brown sweaters, loose violet pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed nunchaku, just in case, and carries nunchakus. Her white hair is knotted and matted. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the east were limited. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Nalaed 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; and she is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She is wearing a long, blue cloak. Her red hair is smooth and relatively long. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Lia was born the youngest of three triplets. 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 Stylist. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and a deep hatred of brigands

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Family, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. Jade (120 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears red painted combat armor at almost all times. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His blonde hair is singed and shortened. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To end his boredom.

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Addict, Mundane. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 1500 sp.

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has no fur. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Insane. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Alexandrite (200 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Pink pearl (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 3'0" southern woman, she is well dressed, constantly wearing a white suit, grey shirt, and pastel tie. Her hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. Her brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Stylist and was forced into it by her family; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 2200 gp. Chalcedony (20 gp). Black opal (1600 gp). Pink pearl (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a green shirt, with a blue mid length shorts with blue tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them, and he perpetually has his crossbow ready. His blue hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are red.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Because his father participated in the massacre of their homeland, goblins burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the south, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his mother from journeying south to reunite his family. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 200 gp.