Description: She has a missing left arm. She tends to wear a large blue jacket. Her white hair is knotted and matted. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

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

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Addict, Ugly, Insane. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 800 gp. Aquamarine (1500 gp). Red garnet (130 gp). White pearl (130 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Amber (130 gp). Azurite (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears tattered old clothes. His hair is silver and curly. His eyes are green.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He uses divination through singing.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Deep green spinel (130 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 5'7" western woman, she wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her blonde hair is greasy and uncared for. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and she wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. His white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Ugarth isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Orc unity. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Shepherd. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Adventurer, Has a crush, Rich, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it, and she perpetually has her shortbow ready. Her long chestnut hair reaches down to her waist. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Ella was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is her passion; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1100 gp. Jasper (30 gp).

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around his neck, and a shortbow on his belt. His hair is cut close to his head. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Born to a Guard, his father struggled to pay the bills. He took after his father in leading caravans. Because they were valued, his father taught him to defend himself. When his father died while fighting dire rats, the young Shump began to lead the lost caravan. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 1900 sp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: He has a missing right leg. He is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. He wears his red hair up in a very large beehive style do. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Hubert was born with his mother's beautiful face. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: A 5'2" western man, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized green coat. His white hair has been sun bleached extensively. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady black eyes.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. 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 moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 1500 gp.

Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She has blonde hair. Her ears are large.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Ownka was born on a far western plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Navigator. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 500 gp. Red spinel (140 gp).