Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a black tunic with blue highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around her shoes. She has done her best to style her chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep white.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Makaria 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. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Military, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a white collared shirt and brown pants. He accessorizes with a red scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His hair is blonde and very short. His eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Carter. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Carter for hire.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 90 pp. Banded agate (11 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Azurite (11 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Breastplate. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Half-Plate.

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. His blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. He has violet eyes and a yellow hat with a brown feather.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Half-Elves.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Tiefling compassion.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Racist. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a white cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: The child of a Soapmaker, who enjoyed hunting, Altho was taken on many hunting expeditions. His childhood dream was to be a Soapmaker, but he was a colossal failure. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Unemployed.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is his passion; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Nature, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His white hair is heavily combed to the right. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Abad isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Tiefling unity. Abad enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. Abad liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 1 Breastplate.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His red hair and beard is wavy and long. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Beggar arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 east. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. Gale enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

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

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Hedonist. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 2400 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (4000 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is typically in her Dyer uniform. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. She worked as a nervous Dyer and found it very stressful. In the meantime she has taken over work as a Dyer and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: An older man who wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat, he is not a threatening figure. He has wavy red hair. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Military, Mentor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Darkwood Buckler.