Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. Her fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her father. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Half-Orcs in Shautha's homeland. Shautha decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Carter

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 210 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He stands about 6'1" and sports green clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His rusty crest is heavily combed to the right. He has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Slave, Nature. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 700 gp. Solid gold idol (200 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (180 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is a great chef.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has amber eyes.

Personality: He thrives on attention. He does whatever is in his power to gain the attention of whomever he deems a fit date. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (130 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1100 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'5" and muscular, this eastern woman is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her red fur is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Elegant hails from a village terrorized by illithids. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Elegant was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 1000 gp. Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Sard (30 gp). Rose (30 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is in excellent shape and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing tan cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are likewise green.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Born in the north to a Courier, Thervan learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. 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 Courier. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 11 years.

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

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: Standing 5'4", this man wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He has shaved his head bald. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has never given up on his dancing dream.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Cynical, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 40 pp. Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1500 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Rose (70 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp).

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Sporting a red mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. A friendly and beautiful Elf, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. After a long history of fighting, Halimath and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and balancing his hectic life and new adventurer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a fancy black suit. He has silver crest. His fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. His first spouse was a Barber, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Athletic, Logical, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Family. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 130 gp.