Description: This southern woman wears a worn and beaten armor. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Joan is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the south. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the south were limited. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Miller they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Body Guard, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Body Guard and was forced into it by her family; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Kildrak lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has dedicated himself to building a better village for his children.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

Bonds: Attractive, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears just a blue suit. She carries a battered mace and tarnished monstrous two handed axe as well. Her head has been shaved. She has gray eyes.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She bought a monstrous two handed axe and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her shortbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. She has dyed her greying scarlet crest a little too much giving a sharp scarlet color. Her gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Hethress is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was born at the edge of vast plains. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, In love. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1300 sp. 1 Disguise kit.

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 dresses like a well dressed Engraver does. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Engraver. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

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

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 5000 sp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he is dressed in an above average manner. He keeps his long bronze crest kept up in a rat tail. His red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Ildrex was born with his father's beautiful face. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His hair is brown and very short. He has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Aelar isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Elven unity. 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, Aelar is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Magnifying glass. 1 Crowbar. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He has done his best to style his bronze crest to look like a famous performer. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insomniac, Depressed, Forgetful, Insane. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 140 pp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: 6'6" and muscular, this southern woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her gold crest is long and unkept. Her gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. The war was a terrible time for her, and Furrele does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Furrele was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 40000 cp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item.