Description: She stands about 2'10" and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She keeps her red hair in a pixie cut. She has brown eyes and a white hat with a brown feather.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Pennie grew up listening to her father's many stories. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Pennie grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Pennie. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

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 wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: Alexandrite (900 gp). White pearl (90 gp). Red spinel (90 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a brown costume with the symbols of the sun god on his torso. His golden hair is braided into rings. This brown eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Roofer. He refers to his adoptive mother 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: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Roofer. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he's looking for his big break

Bonds: Job, Family, Criminal record, Guardian, Adventurer. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 90 pp. Smoky quartz (50 gp). Jet (110 gp). Silver pearl (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. Her golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. This gray eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: To protect her home; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Guardian. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She has brown hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of orcs once and for all.

History: Ellyjoybell lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Family, Religious. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She is dressed in earthy colors with a white and yellow handkerchief worn on her right side. Her golden hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

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

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His hair is black and curly. His skin is flawless and his blue eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born into a rich family. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her gray fur has been sun bleached extensively. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. Dynamic abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Philantrophist, Athletic. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Actor

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears baggy black pantaloons and a brown scarf, and he perpetually has his shortspear ready. He wears his golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the east. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He has a very tight haircut. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Don 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 he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Antitoxin.