Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears a yellow collared shirt and blue skirt. She accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She has moderate length auburn hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Andraste speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. A friendly and beautiful Half-Elf, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. A freak accident while working with her Cook mother left her crippled. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 300 gp. Solid gold idol (500 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (80 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 4'0". He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and green, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Morkral was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Family, Job, Slave. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 200 gp. Red spinel (160 gp). 1 Good lock.

Description: This slender woman stands about 6'5". She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Hethress hails from a village terrorized by illithids. Hethress was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Hethress decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on her left hand. Her red hair is still thick. Her eyes are likewise black.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: Nija was born with her father's beautiful face. Her first spouse was a Map Maker, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1200 gp. Hematite (13 gp).

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He is dressed in earthy colors with a white and violet handkerchief worn on his right side. He wears his silver hair down. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the east. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 4000 gp.

Description: He likes to wear tan tank tops with black pants. He has no hair. He has gray eyes and a tan hat with a black feather.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Koeth is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered west to less war torn lands. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she wears skinny pants and wears a red and white robe with the hood down. She has moderate length silver hair. Her amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. Georgina was orphaned to a temple shortly after her birth. She was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above herself and to hold her god always in her heart. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He tends to wear a tan poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Slave Trader. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was born in the west. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Tiefling companion (his 'brother'). He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and to be a fortune-teller again

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Blue sapphire (500 gp). Emerald (500 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her warhammer with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly warhammers and spears. Her blonde hair is well kept. Her blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. 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: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents enrolled her in a Cleric school at a young age so that she could practice her necromantic talents. Being a Shipwright kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

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

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.