Description: A 4'9" northern woman, she wears grey robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a dagger, but if one is not available she will default to her sai. Her hair is short and chestnut. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Military, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 60 gp. Carnelian (20 gp).

Description: 5'2" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants. She keeps her silver hair in a pixie cut. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Quillathe was born with her father's beautiful face. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Shoemaker for the past few years.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job, Religious. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 4000 cp. Rock crystal (30 gp).

Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She wears a top hat to cover her moderate length black hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. 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 raised by priests from a young age. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: Smoky quartz (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She usually wears her brown robe and has her crossbow always slung over her shoulder. Her hair is black and very short. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She uses divination through singing.

History: Gifted from a young age, Williamina studied abroad. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and balancing her hectic life and new body guard responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly longswords and greatswords. His white hair is lengthy. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform 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: Money/treasure; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: A 6'1" western woman, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her morningstar with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her tied-back hair is red. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is an amazing painter.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. While she appears to be a normal Human, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: He is a husky man, who is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Az-Rans isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Orc unity. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Az-Rans was born with his father's beautiful face. 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 has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and expand his business

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Military, Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 100 gp. Cloth of gold vestments (70 gp).

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears professional attire. She keeps her red hair in a pixie cut. Her gold eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Tieflings.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Gnomish activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Gnomish doctor. She struck the Engraver job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 300 pp. Red garnet (80 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp). Azurite (6 gp). Coral (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Star ruby (1600 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears a grey coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon his head. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has styled his brown hair well, parting it to the right. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Mundane, Impulsive. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 100 gp.