Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her hair is chestnut and very short. She has a dull look in her gray eyes.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 2900 gp. A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (50 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her green crest is smooth and relatively long. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

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 Chassath was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Chassath's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Chassath fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to settle down with her crush

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 1300 gp.

Description: A 6'1" northern man, he wears professional attire. He has a long black beard with little hanging trinkets. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He is a Hag in disguise. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Flaws: Terse, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 900 gp. Chalcedony (80 gp). Amber (50 gp). White pearl (50 gp). Azurite (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her golden hair is smooth and relatively long. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Claira embodies much of what other species detest in the Elves. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Born to a Doctor, her father struggled to pay the bills. She found a children's book about a Elf Fighter 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. Some 7 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Claira never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 100 gp. Black opal (900 gp). Jet (40 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. A friendly and beautiful Half-Elf, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: Gennal was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. 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 has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her greatsword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She is portly but not overly obese. Her head has been shaved. Her ears are large.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. While she appears to be a normal Half-Elf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature greatsword.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tiefling artifacts is her passion.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Forgetful, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 800 gp. Sard (30 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her golden hair is singed and shortened. Her ears are large.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She uses divination through singing.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her father. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Blacksmith. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 14 years.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Joser is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, In love. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 200 pp. Chrysoberyl (60 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1400 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Jasper (50 gp).

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. He wears his red hair down. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and he is content

Ideals: Disciplined, Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Superior lock. 1 Magnifying glass.