Description: She is scrawny and has patchy blonde stubble. She wears a blue coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon her head. She has a hunchback. Her blonde hair is well kept. Her brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is a Engraver first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. In her 12th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk.

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 190 gp. Emerald (400 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Fire opal (400 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her white hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Guard born in the past three hundred years. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Nikki was born the youngest of three triplets. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has achieved small success as a Guard.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and a deep hatred of brigands

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Military, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This man is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: Moss agate (13 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Peridot (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with Stetson hat, and carries falchions. She has moderate length red hair. This brown eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Arara is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Dilettante. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She is content; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Secretive, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 3 Thunderstones.

Description: He has a missing left arm. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His hair is golden, silky, and of moderate length. His violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Hamil was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He moved out east to avoid the crime he committed. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her white hair, when down, is lengthy. Her red eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the north. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and is pretty ugly. She has wavy beige fur. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western woman wears a yellow vest and prefers black and green shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She sports blonde long hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born to a Engraver, her father struggled to pay the bills. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and a strong sense of loyalty to halfling people

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears tattered old clothes. Her red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. Her gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Born in the north to a Sage, Gomory learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. A freak accident while working with her Apothecary father left her crippled. She has worked as a Sage like her father before her.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and balancing her hectic life and new sage responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Impulsive, Forgetful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 300 gp.