Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she is renowned for her bright blue dresses and hats. Her red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Meena speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Meena grew up listening to her mother's many stories. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs. Her tied-back hair is black. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady green eyes.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Tyna hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. In her 16th year, her parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Tyna alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Tyna was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Halflings in Ortegar's homeland. Ortegar decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted, Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

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

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His black fur is still thick. His copper eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

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. 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 Knight. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Knight for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Military, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 350 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She has a very tight haircut. Her eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this eastern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Sarah grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She worked as a nervous Gardener and found it very stressful. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a fancy brown suit. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. His violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Theodoric 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. In the meantime he has taken over work as a Shipwright and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to be a gardener again

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 7000 cp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His golden hair is unkempt and raggedy. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 9000 sp.