Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her hair is long and black with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small white clips. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her top white hat.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Flaws: Terse, Impulsive. Bonds: Slave, Military, Religious. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Red spinel (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp).

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His brown hair is heavily combed to the left. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. Diggory enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. 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 west. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Human compassion; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Hedonist, Racist. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: She is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and green handkerchief worn on her left side. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her sai, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. She wears her brown hair down. Her hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Gardener profession.

History: Oppah hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Attractive. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. 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: Born in the west to a Tailor, Faral learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. A gifted student she started as a Ploughman, but she got bored and became a Tailor. She has achieved small success as a Tailor.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. She wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. She has a hunchback. She wears her black hair up. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Jezebeth was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Passionate, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with tan colored cloaks and clothing, and carries halberds. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She stands about 5'4" and wears a violet vest and prefers blue and black shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the east. Through the years after Mella was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Mella's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and to prove her worth to the world

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1200 gp. Jade (70 gp). Peridot (80 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty pastel coat over it. She has dyed her greying yellow fur a little too much giving a sharp yellow color. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is a great chef.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his rapier with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. He has brown eyes and a brown hat with a yellow feather.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. 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: Gifted from a young age, Rurik studied abroad. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Brown-green garnet (140 gp). Tourmaline (140 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Peridot (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.