Description: With red face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she typically wears yellow cloth garments or leather armor. She sports a flattop hair cut. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Dragonborn culture. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. Her parents enrolled her in a Adept school at a young age so that she could practice her martial talents. She's also a talented Dyer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Many dire rats want her driven away; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Nature, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: She stands about 3'5" and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her black hair is thinning but still full. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Cumpen is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. 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: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable.

Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Banded mail. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is wearing a long, black cloak. His blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His amber eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He enjoys reading and quiet.

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. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Orc conditions. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Tourmaline (50 gp). Malachite (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was born in a small forest village. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Nature, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears a simple tan robe with green stripes complete with hood. He wears a colorful flower in his black hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Sage. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He got into the Sage business at a young age. His first spouse was a Dyer, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Sage for hire.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He prefers to wear flannel. He wears a colorful flower in his silver hair. His skin is flawless and his silver eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. 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: Abad hails from a village terrorized by brigands. In his 10th year, his parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Abad alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many brigands want him driven away; and he wants revenge against brigands

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 5000 sp.

Description: She is well dressed, constantly wearing a blue suit, black shirt, and brown tie, and carries quarterstaffs. She keeps her long white hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears tan trousers with brown and tan striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She sports white long hair. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: The child of a Roofer, who enjoyed hunting, Jarsali was taken on many hunting expeditions. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. During her travels, Jarsali and her party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Jarsali discovered the rest of her party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Jarsali fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing her own horrible transformation.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Obsidian (4 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She likes to wear blue tank tops with brown skirt. Her hair is long and blonde with streaks of golden, and is pulled back with small blue clips. This amber eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Quelenna wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Warrior, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her music with anyone who is interested.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. 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: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 800 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (1600 gp). Rose (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.