Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is dressed in a clean pastel cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her orange fur is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. Her eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. 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, Shadow is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She got into the Brewer business at a young age. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She struck the Brewer job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and many orcs want her driven away

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice, Athletic. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 700 gp. Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older woman who wears a worn and beaten armor, she is not a threatening figure. Her red hair is heavily combed to the left. Her eyes are likewise red.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her writing with anyone who is interested.

History: Criella was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Adept, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Adept in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1000 cp. Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Red-brown spinel (50 gp). 1 Chain shirt.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he is dressed in an above average manner. His white hair has been sun bleached extensively. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

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 loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his music with anyone who is interested.

History: Ur-Dag lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Knight they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Apothecary, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 100 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (110 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (800 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears an entirely blue suit with grey socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He wears a deerstalker hat to cover his moderate length silver hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: Carrie hails from a village terrorized by orcs. 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. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by orcs. Carrie was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the orcs.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and revenge

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 200 gp. Chrysoberyl (90 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern woman wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Fletcher hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Insane, Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Amber (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears bulky brown painted plate armor, and carries flails. He is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around his ears. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Dustin isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Human unity. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Dustin fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a brown collared shirt and white skirt. She accessorizes with a violet scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She carries with her a set of bows, each one with a topaz on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She sports a flattop hair cut. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Barber arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs. He keeps his golden hair in a pixie cut. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Guard but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Optimist, Pacifist. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her cinnamon fur is braided into rings. Her eyes are copper and catlike.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Through the years after Cloud was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Cloud's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 200 gp. Sard (20 gp). White pearl (130 gp). Hematite (8 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.