Description: She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light red in addition to tight pants, and carries whips. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Philomena was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She wants revenge against drow; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Guardian, Mentor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 100 gp. Alexandrite (1100 gp). Moonstone (50 gp).

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He is renowned for his bright green suits and hats. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He sports a flattop crest cut. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: Trynnicus hails from a village terrorized by brigands. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To be a Merchant again; and a deep hatred of brigands

Ideals: Philantrophist, Athletic. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 40000 cp. Eye agate (11 gp).

Description: This southern woman wears skinny pants and wears a brown and grey robe with the hood down. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has done her best to style her golden hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are amber.

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 bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Dwarves.

History: She was born in the south. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Carter. She's also a talented Assassin, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 6000 cp. Black pearl (300 gp).

Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured, and she perpetually has her whip ready. Her lavender fur is matted, messy, and big. Her green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. Pelt is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Pelt grew up listening to her father's many stories. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 6000 sp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (500 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He wears tattered old clothes. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has styled his blonde hair well, parting it to the left. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Peren was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Guardian, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 90 pp. Jasper (60 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Rose (60 gp). Moss agate (9 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Jasper (60 gp). Coral (80 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears an entirely tan suit with violet socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born into a rich family. Heian was orphaned to a temple shortly after his birth. He was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above himself and to hold his god always in his heart. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a brown shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and blue pants. His chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. 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 has set out to sabotage the competition.

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

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Nature, Mentor, Enemies. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 2100 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1300 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1000 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 3'4". He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light tan in addition to tight pants. He wears his auburn hair up. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady green 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 misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He tends to his Body Guard job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Revenge; and he wants revenge against orcs

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 25000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears baggy violet pantaloons and a black scarf. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing dancing.

History: Juliana lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She found a children's book about a Half-Elf Barbarian who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

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

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 400 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Jade (60 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Amethyst (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.